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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Joan Walsh: Tough-talking freshman Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is attacking critics with a bold tactic: whining. The man who told the world, without evidence, that defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel might have taken money from Hamas or North Korea now complains his critics are trying to "silence" him -- but it won't work. ... Of course, bullies like Cruz have a long tradition of playing the victim. When Michele Bachmann, the Tea Party's last incarnation of Joe McCarthy, accused Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin of ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, she and her allies likewise claimed persecution at the hands of her detractors (which also included McCain).

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It's true that critics from Chris Matthews to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) have heard more than an echo of Joe McCarthy in Cruz's evidence-free attacks on Hagel. In the New York Times Saturday, Boxer compared Cruz's dark insinuations against Hagel to the Wisconsin senator's unsourced tirades against alleged Communists in the 1950s.

"It was really reminiscent of a different time and place, when you said, 'I have here in my pocket a speech you made on such and such a date,' and of course, nothing was in the pocket," Boxer said. "It was reminiscent of some bad times."

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This guy is a lunatic. This new right wing fad may play with the toothless trailer trash racist in the south but it all but guarantees democrats will continue to control the White House going forward.

#1 | Posted by ron81 at 2013-02-21 03:13 PM | Reply | Flag:

You know you are in trouble as a politician when you have to have Jim DeMint-ed defend you...

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#2 | Posted by Corky at 2013-02-21 03:23 PM | Reply | Flag:

Give the guy time. He will either tone it down, or be ostracized from within. Firebrands tend to have a limited shelf life in Congress if they want to actually enact laws.

#3 | Posted by moder8 at 2013-02-21 03:29 PM | Reply | Flag:

I see someone's brain is on cruz control.

#4 | Posted by Tor at 2013-02-21 04:12 PM | Reply | Flag:

Ted Cruz
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#5 | Posted by madscientist at 2013-02-21 05:36 PM | Reply | Flag:

Keep pouring it on Ted. Watch the pigs squeal.

#6 | Posted by Huguenot at 2013-02-21 07:52 PM | Reply | Flag:

Anyone notice he looks a lot like Joe McCarthy?

#7 | Posted by Harry_Powell at 2013-02-21 10:57 PM | Reply | Flag:

#8 | Posted by Huguenot at 2013-02-21 07:52 PM | Reply | Flag: Pure, unadulterated, stupidity

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#8 | Posted by Dave at 2013-02-22 09:37 AM | Reply | Flag:

This guy is a lunatic. This new right wing fad may play with the toothless trailer trash racist in the south but it all but guarantees democrats will continue to control the White House going forward.

#3 | Posted by ron81

even though I get hot over a good alliteration, your string of T words reflects on some other sort of biased bigotry much more than anyone in need of a dentist sitting on his porch overlooking the rotting rambler in the front yard and sitting next to the washing machine.
as far as the biased race card fall back, well its too silly to comment even further.

#9 | Posted by afkabl2 at 2013-02-22 11:34 AM | Reply | Flag:

This guy is a lunatic. This new right wing fad may play with the toothless trailer trash racist in the south but it all but guarantees democrats will continue to control the White House going forward.
#3 | Posted by ron81
even though I get hot over a good alliteration, your string of T words reflects on some other sort of biased bigotry much more than anyone in need of a dentist sitting on his porch overlooking the rotting rambler in the front yard and sitting next to the washing machine.
as far as the biased race card fall back, well its too silly to comment even further.
#11 | Posted by afkabl2 at 2013-02-22 11:34 AM

Republicans get the minority vote by their hard work? Suuuure.

Also, if you check out the Tea[...] gatherings they are predominately (as in 99% average) White, White, White. How they even appeal to a 30-something amount of Hispanics is beyond logic, but still confirms the lack of party diversity.

#10 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2013-02-22 01:24 PM | Reply | Flag:

www.newyorker.com

Ted Cruz: Another moron pol from Texas.

#11 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2013-02-22 01:35 PM | Reply | Flag:

He sure does look a lot like old Sen. Joseph McCarthy from the 40's
the old "firebrand type" looking for Communists under everybody's
bed...........YES, you're right, Ted Cruz does resemble McCarthy
in a lot of ways, specially that "prosecutorial demeanor"
....I suppose his next move will be......"are you now, or have you ever
been a member of the Communist Party??".........BUT, remember that
guy Allan West from Florida.....that line didn't work for him to well.....
Ted Cruz has only been in Washington a little over a month.....and
he thinks he owns the Senate.......he's nothing but a T-Party misfit.....

#12 | Posted by saginawmi at 2013-02-22 02:05 PM | Reply | Flag:

You are joking RCADE. Redacting "bagger"? Incidentally, it was their initial nomenclature and it still fits. Honestly, dude.

#13 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2013-02-22 07:49 PM | Reply | Flag:

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