Texas Senator Goes on Attack and Raises Bipartisan Hackles

[JALLEN]

As the Senate edged toward a divisive filibuster vote on Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be defense secretary, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, sat silent and satisfied in the corner of the chamber — his voice lost to laryngitis — as he absorbed what he had wrought in his mere seven weeks of Senate service.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/us/po ... .html?_r=0

If he already has Barbara Boxer unhappy, he's doing something right!

[MoJo]

Like the old story of "The Emperor's New Clothes." Somebody needs to say "The Emperor is naked." Keep pointing out their nakedness Senator Ted Cruz, keep pointing it out.

[gigag04]

That fact that Texans are so annoyed with the garbage going on in DC that we hired a young, motivated, tea party candidate to go troll their day to day operations is awesome to me.

Keep up the good work Ted.

[The_Busy_Mom]

This has been one of the few times when I realize the effects of the statement "Your vote counts". Please keep fighting, Mr. Cruz - we've got your back, and we know you've got ours!

[baldeagle]

So now they're comparing him to Joseph McCarthy, which is interesting, because historians have "discovered" that McCarthy was right after all, although liberals will never admit that.

Then there's this trope.

“I was compelled to vote no on Senator Kerry’s nomination because of his longstanding less-than-vigorous defense of U.S. national security issues,” said Mr. Cruz, who also questioned the commitment of Mr. Kerry and Mr. Hagel to the armed forces, though both served in Vietnam. Mr. Cruz has no record of military service.

The fact that Mr. Cruz has not served in the military is completely irrelevant to the issue of whether or not Kerry and Hagel are committed to our armed forces. Kerry, after all, was the one who met with enemy negotiators in Paris while still serving as a Naval officer to advised them regarding the terms under which the US would withdraw from Vietnam and testified before Congress (lied being the more appropriate description) that US troops behaved like the armies of "Ghenghis Khan" routinely committing atrocities.

Many of us Vietnam veterans view Kerry in the same light as Jane Fonda; traitors who should have been hung from the yardarm. That they were not even questioned about their activities speaks volumes about the patriotism of far too many of our politicians.

Edited to add: Here's how I read the NYT article - Darn it! Ted Cruz is having an impact! Darn it!

[Taurus.40]

I'm glad I voted for this man. He's doing exactly what we ask of OUR Senators.

[The Annoyed Man]

I'm glad I voted for this man. He doing exactly what we ask of OUR Senators.

Exactly. I don't give a cup of warm spit whether it ticks off New Yorkers or Californians. THEIR senators have been working overtime to steal our rights and to destroy the nation, and we have been putting up with their crap for decades. Screw 'em. OUR guy represents US. If they don't like it, that's just too bad. They can just shut the heck up. When they all grow up to be adults and stop asking government to be their mommies, they'll stop getting their diapers in a twist over Ted Cruz's latest "outrage."

[K.Mooneyham]

I, too, read this article as a good thing. That Senator Cruz is doing in Washington what we sent him there to do. To not play "patty-cake" games, but to shake things up, and tell them how the cow ate the cabbage, as my grandpa would have said.

I agree with baldeagle about Senator McCarthy being right (Venona, anyone?). And, of course, what happened to Joe McCarthy? Oh, the liberal-progressive press smeared him and the public bought it...too bad for them that we aren't buying what they are selling anymore, at least not all of us.

[Excaliber]

Finally- an American Patriot in Congress!

I'm delighted that he turned out to be what he said he was - unlike almost all the others.

[suthdj]

I have to say he is becoming my new hero. However that being said he has never responded to any emails(On gun control) I have sent, anyone getting responses from him?

[JALLEN]

Can you say "Cruzin' for a Bruzin'?"

I have no use for Kerry. He is part of the doper dirtball hippie crowd that shanghaied the old Democrat Party and made common cause with the Communist Party USA, along with the Fondas, Clintons and that bunch. He is and always has been a self aggrandizing buffoon, and a disgrace to his uniform, purple owies and all.

[puma guy]

Just once I'd like to see someone standup to the libs when they start name calling and using derisive labels to put down their opponents. As when they label someone as a racist they could counter "Oh, you mean like Sen. Robert Byrd the KKK'r?"

[LaUser]

Kerry, after all, was the one who met with enemy negotiators in Paris while still serving as a Naval officer to advised them regarding the terms under which the US would withdraw from Vietnam

If your source is World Net Daily, then it has no credibility. It might as well be from Mad Magazine.

[K.Mooneyham]

Kerry, after all, was the one who met with enemy negotiators in Paris while still serving as a Naval officer to advised them regarding the terms under which the US would withdraw from Vietnam

If your source is World Net Daily, then it has no credibility. It might as well be from Mad Magazine.

Now, I don't know about all that...but I do know that John Kerry threw his medals over the White House fence...and that was a disgusting act. If he didn't want them, he could simply have thrown them away in private. Instead, he chose to smear the military service with his actions. So, for him today to attempt to stand on his military service is a real piece of twisted work.

[philip964]

The left is already comparing him to Joe McCarthy. That should please Ann Coulter.

Keep up the good work for Texas.