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September 20th, 2017, 11:34 PM | #2511 |
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In the case of Ted Cruz, the motives for his pattern of behaviour are interesting, perhaps, but it is his pattern of behaviour which is the salient point about him. Wanting to make America ungovernable for the sake of a poxy healthcare reform is a huge warning sign that there is a wire down somewhere in his head. Being constitutionally conservative is not the same thing as being loyal to the country or to its people, as Chief Justice Roger Taney, he of the Dredd Scott decision, or for that matter Jefferson Davis could tell us, if they were both still alive and sufficiently self-aware.
Ted Cruz is destructive and self-absorbed to the point of absurdity. Mr Cruz may have more IQ than President Trump, who, after all, is a dolt. But Mr Trump is actually more pragmatic and sensible than Mr Cruz, in the same way that my pet cat is more pragmatic and sensible than Mr Cruz. It is possible to be quite intelligent and very well educated and still be an imbecile, as Mr Cruz has shown.
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September 21st, 2017, 03:55 AM | #2512 | |
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That said, I think Cruz is more than a nut. He genuinely believes in a very different understanding of the role of the Federal government, and he's hardly alone. There's a very big movement against the flexible interpretation of the "Commerce clause", and he's part of it . . . his views might strike you as extreme, but he'd say that he's standing for a traditional interpretation of the Constitution. Cruz is a confluence of right wing traditions-- Texas' states' rights, Cuban emigre anti-communism, the Federalist Society. He's not a dumb guy-- graduated Princeton and Harvard Law School . . . |
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Time Magazine Examines a Man-Made Disaster: the Democratic Party
The Democratic Party has been united and energized by its shared disgust for Trump. But Philip Elliott from Time magazine argues that the party has continued to neglect the heartland voters Trump successfully courted, and he lays out the numbers behind the party's crisis: Quote:
http://time.com/4951191/divided-demo...&pcd=hp-magmod
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It would be kind of funny if ICE grabbed him up and deported him to Canada. |
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September 22nd, 2017, 06:48 PM | #2515 | |
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It's ironic that the Rs care so much about Obama's alleged birth in Kenya, and so little about Cruz. But you can say that the Rs are consistent in their hypocrisy, so I suppose there's no real surprise |
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September 22nd, 2017, 09:15 PM | #2516 |
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I seem to remember that when many Republicans were thinking in terms of "anyone but Trump" as the illness of their nomination contest approached the terminal phase, the second place candidate (a distant second) was none other than Ted Cruz. This alone was enough to make many registered Republicans vote Trump, albeit with rage in their hearts. No doubt there were some who questioned Mr Cruz's entitlement to be treated as a "natural born citizen". But had I been eligible to vote in any US election, my biggest doubt would have been whether Ted Cruz is fit for office; or if Mr Cruz is even fit for prostitutes to piss on, as was briefly suggested in CNN about Mr Trump.
At best, Mr Cruz has devoted his career to civil disobedience and has been systematically disruptive to the well being of others. I think it is lot worse than that; I think he is motivated by malice and invidia. If some really crushing and humiliating misfortune were to strike him, such as being caught red handed on CCTV stealing women's clothing from washing lines, or frequenting a house of ill repute, or cheating on Heidi in the company of a goat, this would give me a great deal of pleasure. He makes Donald Trump seem like a good chap, and that is in itself something of an achievement.
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Cruz is widely hated by his fellow Republicans by his attacks on the party leadership and willingness to campaign for Tea Party challengers for their seats. He is widely viewed as being driven only by his own ambitions and only marginally concerned with the well being of the country by his fellow senators. From a Washington Post article of June 1, 2017: "He has been publicly called a “wacko bird” and a “jackass” by senior lawmakers. His fellow Texas senator, Republican John Cornyn, said it was a mistake for him to show up at the Republican National Convention last year. “If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you,” Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) once opined." This was shortly after Al Franken stated in his book that Senator Cruz is "the guy who microwaves fish in the office." |
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Al Franken LOL!!
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My two cents' is this: The Rs courted and won the Dixecrats-- Southern Democrats committed to segregation. Although there was, briefly, a "New South" Democrat -- Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore-- who won white and black votes, for reasons that I don't understand this is now an impossibility. Think of someone like Fritz Hollings, a Democratic Senator from South Carolina for 40 years . . . that's now an impossibility. What happened? Part of the story is demography. White Christian America was a comfortable majority in 1970, but in 2017, White Christian America is aging-- 70 year old America looks at 30 year old America and says "they're not like me"; this demographic shift has opened up the political fissures that Elliott notes. The other thing that happened, that's hard to figure, is that White America began a downward social spiral. Charles Murray was the first to notice this in "Falling Apart"- that the social and health indicators of poorer whites were looking very bad. This trend has accelerated into a crisis around substance abuse and early death. That has created a legitimate sense of alarm -- if your neighbor's 25 year old daughter just died of an OD, you're clearly not feeling "everything's great". With a very few exceptions, Dems didn't look for nor did they channel that angst. For the most part, the institutional Republican party didn't either-- it was the Tea Party, really a third party within the Rs, that did it for them. When Trump talks about "slaughter", he likes to label it with reference to a largely black city (Chicago, Detroit); but actually most of the cities in the US are doing very well, NYC's homicides will be about 250 this year, compared with 1200 a generation ago. The "slaughter" that Trump voters are vibrating to is the death toll in their own communities-- not necessarily murders, more often ODs, suicides. That battle inside the Rs is being fought today in one of the most interesting election contests, Luther Strange vs Roy Moore for Senate in Alabama. Note that this is a Republican primary-- Tea Party vs Institutional, and amazingly Housing Secretary Ben Carson has come out for Moore, while Trump supports Strange. (The Democratic nominee will be irrelevant; Alabama politics is now the Republican Primary). http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...a-trump-243035 |
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I was reading a blog about soccer and came across mention of Richard Rorty. I searched this thread and couldn't find mention of him, so here goes:
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