March 26, 2015
By David A. Graham
First-term senator. (click here) Son of a foreign-born father. Electoral longshot. Harvard Law Review editor. Constitutional lawyer. Lauded orator.
Is that Ted Cruz? Or is it Barack Obama? It's both, of course. The similarities between the two men are somewhat superficial—you'd be hard-pressed to find many parallels deeper than what's listed here—but it's enough to have set off a debate among conservatives about whether Cruz is a "Republican Obama." And that debate offers a view of a different and more interesting debate in the same group, about whether President Obama has been a disastrous failure or a disastrous success....
Ted Cruz does not practice politics, he allows the Third World to dominate his portion of the electorate. I don't think it is funny either. We have witnessed the political deterioration of the political right wing in the USA and he is at the pinnacle of that status.
I would think Harvard at the very least would be railing against the political strategy of Texas Senator Ted Cruz. He is a parasite to the status of Americans in the USA. He is the most verbal member of the US Senate that has absolutely nothing to be proud of. He is not alone in that status, Mr. Gohmert in the US House runs with the same sad standards of their politics. The USA demands more from the leaders in Afghanistan then Boehner or McConnell demands of their members.
I would expect "The Atlantic" to end any stenographic willingness to these wayward legislators and hold them responsible in their editorial pages.
This is ridiculous. Cruz is not an extremist, he is exploitative to the political process in the USA. He has no valid reason to carry on the way he does.
The American people pay huge amounts of money into the US Treasury and the budgets submitted by the right wing in the House and Senate is shameful. Joe the Plumber has more power within the USA government than the working poor and minorities could hope to have. The right wing has TESTIFIED to the oppression of the vote and the estrangement of the electorate to obtain and hold onto leadership in this democracy. The USA should have never fallen into the extremists that have obvious plans to cast the USA into war while casting the poor and minorities to their own means of begging for food.
Any legislator at any level of government needs to be called out when they make that step into oppression and racism. The media is not doing that and it is not only irresponsible, but, to laugh it off is more hideous than politics.
I am worried about my country and this very strange paradigm of politics is one of the reasons why. Either legislators are interested in solving the country's problems or they are simply taking up space and a paycheck that belongs to someone else.
The USA has many problems and they are not being taken on to solve, they are being held in contention as a symbol to prove the USA government doesn't belong to the people so much as the rich and powerful. This is a complete abstraction to the founders of this democracy.
By David A. Graham
First-term senator. (click here) Son of a foreign-born father. Electoral longshot. Harvard Law Review editor. Constitutional lawyer. Lauded orator.
Is that Ted Cruz? Or is it Barack Obama? It's both, of course. The similarities between the two men are somewhat superficial—you'd be hard-pressed to find many parallels deeper than what's listed here—but it's enough to have set off a debate among conservatives about whether Cruz is a "Republican Obama." And that debate offers a view of a different and more interesting debate in the same group, about whether President Obama has been a disastrous failure or a disastrous success....
Ted Cruz does not practice politics, he allows the Third World to dominate his portion of the electorate. I don't think it is funny either. We have witnessed the political deterioration of the political right wing in the USA and he is at the pinnacle of that status.
I would think Harvard at the very least would be railing against the political strategy of Texas Senator Ted Cruz. He is a parasite to the status of Americans in the USA. He is the most verbal member of the US Senate that has absolutely nothing to be proud of. He is not alone in that status, Mr. Gohmert in the US House runs with the same sad standards of their politics. The USA demands more from the leaders in Afghanistan then Boehner or McConnell demands of their members.
I would expect "The Atlantic" to end any stenographic willingness to these wayward legislators and hold them responsible in their editorial pages.
This is ridiculous. Cruz is not an extremist, he is exploitative to the political process in the USA. He has no valid reason to carry on the way he does.
The American people pay huge amounts of money into the US Treasury and the budgets submitted by the right wing in the House and Senate is shameful. Joe the Plumber has more power within the USA government than the working poor and minorities could hope to have. The right wing has TESTIFIED to the oppression of the vote and the estrangement of the electorate to obtain and hold onto leadership in this democracy. The USA should have never fallen into the extremists that have obvious plans to cast the USA into war while casting the poor and minorities to their own means of begging for food.
Any legislator at any level of government needs to be called out when they make that step into oppression and racism. The media is not doing that and it is not only irresponsible, but, to laugh it off is more hideous than politics.
I am worried about my country and this very strange paradigm of politics is one of the reasons why. Either legislators are interested in solving the country's problems or they are simply taking up space and a paycheck that belongs to someone else.
The USA has many problems and they are not being taken on to solve, they are being held in contention as a symbol to prove the USA government doesn't belong to the people so much as the rich and powerful. This is a complete abstraction to the founders of this democracy.
