Ted Cruz Apologizes, Equivocates About His "Terrorist Attack" Remark on Tucker Carlson

First Ted Cruz says the "terrorist attack" line was "sloppy language," because he didn't mean the peaceful protesters. He meant the people who "attacked police."

But... no one thought he meant peaceful protesters. We thought he meant the violent people.

But that's still not a "terrorist attack."

His explanation is that he's used this sort of rhetoric about antifa and BLM when they attack cops a hundred times, so he just reverted to form and used it here.

Not that it's right, but I guess I can personally understand that explanation, because I've used that same rhetoric, and can understand how, confronted with an attack on cops on January 6, might feel obligated to remain consistent with prior rhetoric about brawling with cops and call the January 6 brawlers "terrorists."

I... guess.

Ted Cruz shifts around between a few different alternative explanations, hoping that each will be accepted and get him off the hook, before Carlson lets him escape by talking about almost-certain paid federal agent provocateur Ray Epps.

Full Tucker Carlson Debate With Senator @tedcruz About The Senator’s Comments About January 6th

Tucker also asks Senator @tedcruz if he has looked into the Ray Epps story. pic.twitter.com/yOi8CwtFhv
— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) January 7, 2022

It should be noted that Cruz has used this "terrorist attack" language before.

Senator Ted Cruz Calling January 6th A “Terrorist Attack” On May 13, 2021 pic.twitter.com/PBcBC1tw40
— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) January 7, 2022

And he's repeatedly used it since.

In fact, he used it even while he was lecturing people about how Democrats adulterate language to win political arguments.

Again, I think the explanation is, as he suggested, that he routinely used this rhetoric against antifa and BLM and decided he should be "consistent" and use it against the January 6 protesters too.

And let's face it: A lot of these people, including "conservatives," were pretty chill about antifa and BLM attacking other people but are now hopping mad about the slightest intrusion into the peaceful enjoyment of their own premises.

Few people on January 6 committed any kind of violence, but the Democrats are using this "terrorist attack" as a justification, as a predicate, to criminalize all political opposition.

That's why Tucker Carlson is so incredibly frustrated with the allegedly "smart" Ted Cruz's amazing obtuseness.

What I keep learning, again and again, and am continually surprised by (more fool me), is that literally none of these people read us or hear us at all.

They are always shocked and surprised to learn what conservatives actually think. They're always left flat-footed and scrambling for cover and catch-up.

They live in a bubble of Conservative, Inc. cvcks, liberal pollsters, neoliberal corporate donors, and assorted leftwing media traitors.

They are as removed from us as sandworms. They are an alien species.

They do not even try to learn the customs and beliefs of the people they supposedly "serve."

And then they grumble that they're not respected enough, and that conservatives have "paranoid" suspicions about them.

Well, Ted, I mean, you're done, so. Might have been a good idea to occasionally check in with the base from time to time.

Or nah. Just keep reading National Review. They've got their Finger on the Pulse. That Dan McLaughlin? Real conservative thought-leader, that one.

El Kabong
@El_Kabong81

Watching The Bulwark/Dispatch/Lincoln Project defend Ted Cruz is going to be spectacular.

Posted by: Ace at 03:33 PM

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1 too late fuck boy

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at January 07, 2022 03:33 PM (CjHGv)

2 and first

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at January 07, 2022 03:33 PM (CjHGv)

3 Whoa

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 07, 2022 03:34 PM (Do5/p)

4 Dipshit.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 07, 2022 03:34 PM (wAnMi)

5 Yeah, I dgaf about Cruz. Haven't for a long time.

Posted by: soulpile at January 07, 2022 03:34 PM (hiX0r)

6 And let's face it: A lot of these people, including "conservatives," were pretty chill about antifa and BLM attacking other people but are now hopping mad about the slightest intrusion into the peaceful enjoyment of their own premises.

Posted by: Ace at 03:33 PM

Small quibble, it's not theirs. It's ours.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 07, 2022 03:35 PM (Ez6QX)

7 My first choice for 2016. Sorry, Ted. Not now.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2022 03:35 PM (7bRMQ)

8 I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.

Posted by: 80's music fan at January 07, 2022 03:35 PM (glGDV)

9 What do you expect from a Canadian?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 07, 2022 03:36 PM (Z0jKT)

10 Tucker did a good job I think

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2022 03:36 PM (TdaKq)

11 Cruz is a politician, therefor he is a liar and scumbag. That is what made PDT so great, yeah he was vile sometimes, but he was real. What you saw was the real deal

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 07, 2022 03:36 PM (GPwVZ)

12 They are always shocked and surprised to learn what conservatives actually think. They're always left flat-footed and scrambling for cover and catch-up.

===========

"There are conservative voices other than National Review, the Bulwark, and Jonah Goldberg? Why has no one told me!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 07, 2022 03:36 PM (LvTSG)

13 They should be regarded at best, as mercenaries. And realistically they're mercenaries that have largely sold out to our adversaries at this point.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 07, 2022 03:36 PM (z5Vrg)

14 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 07, 2022 03:37 PM (arJlL)

15 Teddy was calling 1/6 a terrorist attack back on 1/7, and completely buying into the "cop killed with a fire extinguisher" line for months.

Still waiting to hear anything about Ashli or Rosanne. Not going to hold my breath.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 07, 2022 03:37 PM (wAnMi)

16 Not my first choice in 2016.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 07, 2022 03:37 PM (KAi1n)

17 He did stick his foot in his mouth, I am mostly pissed he gave Marxists more ammunition.

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2022 03:37 PM (2JoB8)

18 >>>What I keep learning, again and again, and am continually surprised by (more fool me), is that literally none of these people read us or hear us at all.

This.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 07, 2022 03:37 PM (QYPq3)

19 As candidate for Congress Joe Kent said later on last night's Tucker show, calling them domestic terrorists reinforces the Biden administrations very intentional language selection to cast Trump supporters as worthy targets of our military.

Ted understands how powerful word choice is, and he should not have chosen that phrase.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2022 03:37 PM (URNdm)

20 I don't trust any politician. Ever.

Even DeSantis can be bought and probably will be if he were to win the White House.

The kind of morals it takes to resist the bribery inherent in politics is the kind of morals that would deter someone from getting into politics in the first place.

The only true insulator is to have enough money and a dash of "DGAF" to ignore the bribers. Trump was that guy but he was a once in a million/stars aligning sort of candidate.

Posted by: Shenanigans at January 07, 2022 03:38 PM (ZR7kf)

21 The "consistency" thing is dumb. Not every riot (not even every BLM riot) is terrorism, no matter how many cops get punched. Antifa should be called terrorists because they're terrorists.

1/6 was a mostly peaceful protest that got a little out of hand.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at January 07, 2022 03:38 PM (Ai656)

22 No surprise here.

Ted is a swamp turd, gets paid for being a swamp turd and likes being a swamp turd.

Keep polishing that turd Ted.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 07, 2022 03:38 PM (R/m4+)

23 Speaking of alien species representing us, Jack "cuck" Murphy is a 2021 Claremont Institute Lincoln Fellow.

Clown. World.

claremont.org/page/2021-lincoln-fellows/

Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2022 03:38 PM (YYlyE)

24 Pharisee French: "It's not terrorism when my wife's boyfriend comes over and plunders her booty while I Tweet and watch from the closet."

Posted by: Thrawn at January 07, 2022 03:39 PM (Rl7KJ)

25 It was Cruz reverting to form. Smart, sure, but a snake. Glad he pulled the plug on any Prez ambitions he had.

Posted by: The Great Negro at January 07, 2022 03:39 PM (Tc2CN)

26 I used to have high hopes for Ted, now he just needs to STFU and go away.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at January 07, 2022 03:39 PM (qZdIZ)

27 Cruz had a prepared speech in which he used this language. This wasn't off the cuff, so he can't claim he bungled anything. He knew exactly what he was saying.

Furthermore, FURTHERMORE, I SAY! Given all that we know about the events of that day, why didn't Lyin' Ted use his time to question the events of the day? He defaulted into calling people terrorists without so much as wondering who provoked the clashes or why 14,000 hours of video surveillance from that day hasn't been shown to anyone.

He should've donated his time to someone like Julie Kelly instead of putting his foot in his mouth, inevitably leading to him tripping over his own flaccid dick.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 07, 2022 03:39 PM (KbCG3)

28 Aw, the master orator apologized for people being upset that he used the word he meant to use.

How nice.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - CDC releases COVID study proving masks don't do sh1t, literally not even 2% change at January 07, 2022 03:39 PM (q8U4k)

29 But we can't spare Ted! He fights!

Wait, no. Jane Hammond from Lufkin did not send in $20, $50 or even $100.
Ted sent her a "Final Notice" that this was her last chance to send money so Ted could fight the liberals in Washington.

And she didn't respond.

Posted by: Well at January 07, 2022 03:39 PM (Ab/Or)

30 Tucker is a stone cold killer.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 07, 2022 03:39 PM (ptqGC)

31 I've said it a couple times today. I watched that live last night, and props to Ted for going on to get beat up over it. and I agree that i'll give him a little wiggle room for consistency.

but I still have to wonder, Ted knew exactly what he was saying and exactly how it would be used by the leftists. I am leaning towards he said it the way he said it so that he could use the "consistency" excuse to get the right to calm down while allowing the left their "bipartisanship" ...

Change my mind...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 07, 2022 03:39 PM (8D42x)

32 I'm really not interested in running Cruz out on a rail over this, I just hate that we have to pretend this event was Pearl Harbor or 9/11.

DeSantis really had the perfect take on this, dismissive and calling out it was purely political for a failing party.

I myself am conflicted on the people involved, I knew someone that went there but it was for them just a peaceful protest. I don't look at Buffalo QAnon as some sort of "comrade" on our side.

Posted by: Blago at January 07, 2022 03:40 PM (zyoXi)

33 The next person on the court will be a Late-Ass Wino.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 07, 2022 03:40 PM (44ww/)

34 The fact is, when it came down to the end and it was Trump vs. Cruz, a switch flipped. All of GOPe Cuckworld instantly climbed down from *years* of vitriolic, hateful rhetoric about Ted Cruz, Dangerous Demagogue and gave their full-throated endorsements of Ted Cruz, Conservatism's Last Best Hope.

After Indiana, he had to play Trumpball for a few years, but he never forgot what turned his erstwhile enemies into friends.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 07, 2022 03:40 PM (hQ23g)

35 They should be regarded at best, as mercenaries. And realistically they're mercenaries that have largely sold out to our adversaries at this point.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 07, 2022 03:36 PM (z5Vrg)

Condottiere. Always for sale to the highest bidder.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2022 03:40 PM (7bRMQ)

36 My litmus test for 2024 candidates is:

(1) Everyone involved with 1/6 gets a full pardon and an apology.

(2) The cop who shot Ashli Babbitt is charged with at least manslaughter.

If you can't do both of those things, you can fuck right off.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at January 07, 2022 03:40 PM (Ai656)

37 9 What do you expect from a Canadian?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 07, 2022 03:36 PM (Z0jKT)

Take off, you hoser!

Posted by: Bob and Doug McKenzie at January 07, 2022 03:40 PM (PiwSw)

38 30 Tucker is a stone cold killer.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 07, 2022 03:39 PM (ptqGC

Yup... I don't think he let Ted get away with anything

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2022 03:40 PM (TdaKq)

39 1/6 was a mostly peaceful protest that got a little out of hand.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at January 07, 2022 03:38 PM (Ai656)

Says America, with 76% of polling, including 60% democrats...

Brought sads to CBS...

Posted by: Nova local at January 07, 2022 03:40 PM (exHjb)

40 What I keep learning, again and again, and am continually surprised by (more fool me), is that literally none of these people read us or hear us at all.
They are always shocked and surprised to learn what conservatives actually think. They're always left flat-footed and scrambling for cover and catch-up.
They live in a bubble of Conservative, Inc. cvcks, liberal pollsters, neoliberal corporate donors, and assorted leftwing media traitors.
++++
There is a two-point assessment that can likely be considered the Iron Law of Republican Politicians:
1. The longer one remains in Washington, the less one understands the constituency
2. The longer one remains in Washington, the less one remains American

And why should either one not be true? They don't live in America, so why is anyone surprised that they essentially don't understand it?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 07, 2022 03:40 PM (DU+/6)

41 Hubby and I watch Tucker call Lyin' Ted a liar right to his face last night.

It was quite wonderful. A moment to treasure.

Posted by: Just Lily at January 07, 2022 03:40 PM (vivhj)

42 >>>Ted understands how powerful word choice is, and he should not have chosen that phrase.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2022 03:37 PM (URNdm)

He doesn't deserve even that much consideration. He chose it on purpose as Tucker astutely called him on.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 07, 2022 03:40 PM (QYPq3)

43 Yeah, I'm pretty sure ted has argued against violence of conserveatives before. After hearing his explanation I'm more than willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. He quickly came out and apologized instead of doubling down, I think he tries to listen to the base and stand up for republicans. I dont like the fanatic response to jump on a person for mispeaking for allegedly stepping out of line.

Posted by: Whirligiginator at January 07, 2022 03:40 PM (eXAUD)

44 Ted was sweating like a Lincoln Project pedo rolling up in a white panel truck on a kindergarten playground.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 07, 2022 03:41 PM (ptqGC)

45 Cruz is a politician, therefor he is a liar and scumbag. That is what made PDT so great, yeah he was vile sometimes, but he was real. What you saw was the real deal
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 07, 2022 03:36 PM (GPwVZ)

I think he just highlighted the real difference between politicians and private sector. Different ways of approaching everything - politicians have zero qualms about straight up lying. And flip-flopping whenever politically expedient. Trump had his own foibles, but I'd take that any day of the week - and he confirmed what I always suspected. A non-politician is always preferable to somebody who has spent their entire life being groomed to do nothing but advance themselves at the expense of others.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 07, 2022 03:41 PM (wAnMi)

46 In hindsight I'm glad other 2016 primary voters went strongly for Trump. I was a Cruz person, and then reluctantly decided "he would not have won, he could not have countered the FNM narrative against him"

Now it feels like the collapse is happening and I'm halfway relieved that the wine moms elected the young woman Soros SOS here so the state WILL be full on blue unless some huge event intervenes.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at January 07, 2022 03:41 PM (3cGpq)

47 The fact is, when it came down to the end and it was Trump vs. Cruz, a switch flipped. All of GOPe Cuckworld instantly climbed down from *years* of vitriolic, hateful rhetoric about Ted Cruz, Dangerous Demagogue and gave their full-throated endorsements of Ted Cruz, Conservatism's Last Best Hope.

After Indiana, he had to play Trumpball for a few years, but he never forgot what turned his erstwhile enemies into friends.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 07, 2022 03:40 PM (hQ23g)
++++
Yup. He got into the club.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 07, 2022 03:41 PM (DU+/6)

48 Cruz also used it in February 2021 when he defended Trump against the incitement charges.

Posted by: Just a side note at January 07, 2022 03:41 PM (mmU7u)

49 I think I''ll just skip the "I hate Ted Cruz" posts. I think people have been posting that all day.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2022 03:41 PM (k49Sx)

50 I'm done with Cruz. You don't make mistakes like this... and he's too smart to be 'sloppy'.

Trump or DeSantis. It's that simple... even without this remark, Cruz wasn't cracking in front of either of those two.

Posted by: Reality Man at January 07, 2022 03:42 PM (XTMvj)

51 >>They are as removed from us as sandworms. They are an alien species.

More like tapeworms.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 07, 2022 03:42 PM (GYllL)

52
Wait, Alan Dershowitz most brilliant legal prodigy at Harvard admits to being "dumb?"

In the words of the Robot, "it does not compute."

Fuck you, Ted.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 07, 2022 03:42 PM (s2VJv)

53 Ted understands how powerful word choice is, and he should not have chosen that phrase.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2022 03:37 PM (URNdm)

He doesn't deserve even that much consideration. He chose it on purpose as Tucker astutely called him on.
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 07, 2022 03:40 PM (QYPq3)

Lawyers of Cruz's caliber do not make poor word choices - or more specifically - wrong word choices. He knew exactly what he was saying, and meant it that way. The only thing he's sorry about was misreading the room.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 07, 2022 03:42 PM (wAnMi)

54 >>His explanation is that he's used this sort of rhetoric about antifa and BLM when they attack cops a hundred times, so he just reverted to form and used it here.

Ted should read up on his Alinsky, and practice #4.

How anyone in politics in 2021 can believe that playing fair with the Democrats will earn you anything but more grief is amazing. You are a chump to be exploited when you do this. They hate you, Ted, and nothing you do or say will make them respect you let alone like or work with you -- ever.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2022 03:42 PM (URNdm)

55 Trump was right again: Lyin Ted.

Posted by: Regular joe at January 07, 2022 03:42 PM (L9P9s)

56 Cruz' problem is that he thinks he always has to be the smartest, wittiest person in the room and that his words are golden nuggets that will lead and enlighten.

Less Harvard Law, more good ol' boy would go a long way.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2022 03:42 PM (ZLI7S)

57 I wonder what the FBI has on Ted?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - CDC releases COVID study proving masks don't do sh1t, literally not even 2% change at January 07, 2022 03:42 PM (q8U4k)

58 In the interview, when Tucker asked him about Eps, Cruz said he had 'seen video' of it multiple times... meaning he saw at least SOME of what the Right is thinking, but apparently does not understand the depths of our frustrations with people like HIM.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2022 03:43 PM (oHd/0)

59 I give Cruz props for showing up there...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2022 03:43 PM (TdaKq)

60 I'm sitting at the same Moroniform comedy node I was the 1st time The Trump Train rolled over Ted going thru Indiana. Pretty sure I wont bother getting up next time Ted.

Posted by: DaveA at January 07, 2022 03:43 PM (FhXTo)

61 Cruz thought he could thread the needle and become the candidate who could appeal to both MAGA and NeverTrump. Now he's just a much less attractive Charlie Crist, hated by all.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at January 07, 2022 03:43 PM (frr40)

62 Speak for yourself, but I'm tight with sandworms.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 07, 2022 03:43 PM (Y5qcH)

63 Tucker did a good job I think
Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2022 03:36 PM (TdaKq)

he was great last night. I'm not sure if he's pivioting away from the head honchos at fox or what, but in the last year and a half or so he seems to have really gotten to an FU point in his professional career.

it's been a joy to watch.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 07, 2022 03:43 PM (8D42x)

64 31 I've said it a couple times today. I watched that live last night, and props to Ted for going on to get beat up over it. and I agree that i'll give him a little wiggle room for consistency.

but I still have to wonder, Ted knew exactly what he was saying and exactly how it would be used by the leftists. I am leaning towards he said it the way he said it so that he could use the "consistency" excuse to get the right to calm down while allowing the left their "bipartisanship" ...

Change my mind...
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 07, 2022 03:39 PM (8D42x)

I think he was McConnell/McCarthy's trial balloon...notice how little they did Jan 6 after this blew up Jan 5...

And he was willing to do it to try and knife Trump and get his donors to put in their 100 millions for his 2024 pres campaign...he may have accomplished the 1st (or may not - that's TBD), but he ruined the 2nd, so it was a very calculated cold risk that failed...

Posted by: Nova local at January 07, 2022 03:43 PM (exHjb)

65 How anyone in politics in 2021 can believe that playing fair with the Democrats will earn you anything but more grief is amazing. You are a chump to be exploited when you do this. They hate you, Ted, and nothing you do or say will make them respect you let alone like or work with you -- ever.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2022 03:42 PM (URNdm)
++++
It earns status and comfort.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 07, 2022 03:43 PM (DU+/6)

66 They're rioters when they burn down your store.
They're terrorist when they sit in his chair.

Posted by: 29Victor at January 07, 2022 03:43 PM (BJKQV)

67 My how silent the calls to get Cruz on SCOTUS have become.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 07, 2022 03:43 PM (N39Ws)

68 Lawyers of Cruz's caliber do not make poor word choices - or more specifically - wrong word choices. He knew exactly what he was saying, and meant it that way. The only thing he's sorry about was misreading the room.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 07, 2022 03:42 PM (wAnMi)

+1000

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2022 03:44 PM (oHd/0)

69 I dont like the fanatic response to jump on a person for mispeaking for allegedly stepping out of line.
Posted by: Whirligiginator at January 07, 2022 03:40 PM (eXAUD)
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I don't "like" it either, but if we as a party and a movement can't hold our elected asshats to the baseline standard of "Don't reflexively adopt the language of the left and don't hand them any ammunition to use against us as a whole," then what exactly is the fucking point?

It's not that he was speaking off-the-cuff and had some poorly-nuanced explanation of a policy position that he had to later clarify - He used the exact language that Nancy Pelosi uses to describe J6.

Posted by: ballistic at January 07, 2022 03:44 PM (oXNqT)

70 66 They're rioters when they burn down your store.
They're terrorist when they sit in his chair.
Posted by: 29Victor at January 07, 2022 03:43 PM (BJKQV)

Old and Busted - Carlos the Jackal

New Hotness - Carlos the Barcalounger

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 07, 2022 03:44 PM (s2VJv)

71 And let's face it: A lot of these people, including "conservatives," were pretty chill about antifa and BLM attacking other people but are now hopping mad about the slightest intrusion into the peaceful enjoyment of their own premises.

Which is utter bullshit because they were also pretty chill about the multiple intrusions over the Kavanaugh hearings (201

, and when AOC marched over 200 rioters to Nancy Pelosi's Sacred Inner Sanctum Office in June of 2020.

They didn't seem to have problems with "terrorists" entering into their offices, getting into the elevator cars and harassing them in restrooms.

Its only a problem when the FBI wants to help Nancy Pelosi stage a Reichstag fire.

POLITICAL THEATER! And Cruz and the GOP play along as bit actors in this phuqued up tragedy.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 07, 2022 03:44 PM (+LCoQ)

72 44 Ted was sweating like a Lincoln Project pedo rolling up in a white panel truck on a kindergarten playground.
Posted by: Jane D'oh

I noticed that. Tucker should have thrown him a towel or a maxi pad or something.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 07, 2022 03:44 PM (GYllL)

73 He should be on the Supreme next to the wide ass Latina.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2022 03:44 PM (todmg)

74 Yeah, I'm pretty sure ted has argued against violence of conserveatives before. After hearing his explanation I'm more than willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. He quickly came out and apologized instead of doubling down, I think he tries to listen to the base and stand up for republicans. I dont like the fanatic response to jump on a person for mispeaking for allegedly stepping out of line.
Posted by: Whirligiginator at January 07, 2022 03:40 PM (eXAUD)
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My threshold requirement is that Cruz, sometime soon, makes a statement on the floor of the Senate that he recants his assent to calling Jan-6-ers "terrorists".

In no uncertain terms.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2022 03:44 PM (XHhHI)

75 What? The GOPe never became friends with Cruz. I think he's over because he's getting attacked from all sides now. If I were him I'd say fuck it and resign . Make everyone happy and get on with your life.

Lot of good voting to non certify the electoral vote did him.

Posted by: Just a side note at January 07, 2022 03:44 PM (mmU7u)

76 Remember the days when former Presidents just retired and were never heard from again. Would be nice to go back to those days.

https://bit.ly/32VXV2F

Sen. Joe Manchin is taking heat from all sides as he resists eliminating the last stalwart against the Democratic agenda, the filibuster, including some of the biggest names in America.

Manchin has told colleagues his phone has been lighting up with calls in recent days, including from former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

Though two former presidents and every Democrat in the Senate couldn't budge the West Virginia senator, even TV host Oprah Winfrey phoned in to try to convince him to agree to filibuster reform, according to Politico.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 07, 2022 03:44 PM (Do5/p)

77 A non-politician is always preferable to somebody who has spent their entire life being groomed to do nothing but advance themselves at the expense of others.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 07, 2022 03:41 PM (wAnMi)

Also, it sure seems as if there are almost no consequences for failures or abject stupidity on the part of politicians, not usually the case in a competitive business where competence adds to the bottom line!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at January 07, 2022 03:45 PM (hOUT3)

78 Welp, I guess I'll offer my two cents - probably worth less - since I am a Cruz fan.

It is unfortunate that he said what he said when he said it. I don't believe he is a cuck or a sell out, but I guess time will tell on that. I do believe he should have earned some goodwill to get past bad rhetoric, but it will be incumbent upon him to do some things to get past it. Meaning he should have some goodwill to be given the opportunity, and he should take that opportunity and use for our advantage (and his). No politician is perfect, certainly not Cruz. I'm not willing to dump him just because of this. Perhaps more will surface that may cause me to change my mind. Until then, I remain a fan.

I certainly give credit to Tucker for grilling him. I give credit to Cruz for going into that grill session - but admit he could have and should have had a better response.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at January 07, 2022 03:45 PM (sX1BW)

79 First Ted Cruz says the "terrorist attack" line was "sloppy language,"
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Lawyers are known for having sloppy language. Precision in expression is for engineers.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2022 03:45 PM (2Padd)

80 Come on now, it was a *checks notes* a "speak-O."

Don't we get to do that too?

Posted by: Ted Cruz at January 07, 2022 03:45 PM (PiwSw)

81 What do you expect from a Canadian?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

Our born and bred in ND senator, Kevin Cramer, that at one time was a very reliable, Christian, conservative, has said much worse about the J6 protestors. Much worse.
He's not a name brand like Cruz, so it's ignored outside of ND.
Our very Christian, conservative talk radio host (born in MN I think) has also said MUCH worse.

This is a wide spread slandering and it's not going to end well as only the political junkies will withdraw support based on the vile statements made regarding Jan 6. The rest won't even know who said what.

Posted by: old chick at January 07, 2022 03:45 PM (sOete)

82 What I keep learning, again and again, and am continually surprised by (more fool me), is that literally none of these people read us or hear us at all.

Yup to all of that, especially the more the fool me (by which I mean me, not you).

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at January 07, 2022 03:45 PM (GbPPJ)

83 How about this possibility: Ted knew that some Dems (Biden?) were going to contrast Ted talking about antifa etc. and Ted talking about the Capitol rioters, and Ted stole their thunder.

Posted by: m at January 07, 2022 03:45 PM (SWrJu)

84 he was great last night. I'm not sure if he's pivioting away from the head honchos at fox or what, but in the last year and a half or so he seems to have really gotten to an FU point in his professional career.

it's been a joy to watch.
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 07, 2022 03:43 PM (8D42x)

He already has FU money... so, like Trump, he can now say what he wants.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2022 03:45 PM (oHd/0)

85 Dear lord, rewatching Cruz's remarks and he's in that full-on pander mode acting as if half the Capitol was burned down with half of Congress inside.

If you can defend Cruz after that little performance...I don't know what to say. You must be in tight with Jesse Kelly.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 07, 2022 03:45 PM (KbCG3)

86 I said yesterday and I'll say it again... I don't hate ted Cruz... He pissed my off with the stupid crap he said....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2022 03:45 PM (TdaKq)

87 Cruz, despite being a very smart guy, is someone whose entire life is built around running for office. It seems like every step of the way has been about crafting his resume to get elected to the next level up. Even with nominally conservative folks, that attitude makes one vulnerable to outside pressure, and to getting fed a line of bullshit from political consultants, socially liberal staffers, etc.

Right now I'm disgusted with him over this, but I'm willing to give him a chance to redeem himself. If he went down to visit the J6 prisoners, got involved in pushing for their release, and loudly called for Biden to immediately pardon everyone involved, I'd consider that a good start.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 07, 2022 03:45 PM (wmDcS)

88 Tucker did a good job I think
Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2022 03:36 PM (TdaKq)
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He held Ted on his lap for the full spanking.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2022 03:45 PM (XHhHI)

89 Kennedy is sometimes good, sometimes meh, but this is just plain AWESOME!! Nobody gets away without a kick in the ass.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8jkr87

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 07, 2022 03:46 PM (4uu+s)

90 I will be voting for Cruz sometime after my next donation to the Salvation Army which will be after I pick up CfA and a Coke and after I shop at Target.

Ted, WE ARE NOT TERRORISTS. ANTIFA/BLM ARE THE FUCKING TERRORISTS.

Posted by: Chuck C at January 07, 2022 03:46 PM (EughT)

91 >>>I give Cruz props for showing up there...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2022 03:43 PM (TdaKq)

He was only there for the purpose of attempting to somehow salvage his hopes of running for President, again. Yes, we may all know he didn't have a chance before this, but he clearly doesn't know that.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 07, 2022 03:46 PM (QYPq3)

92 Saw where Pampeo loot 100lbs. He may be trimming down for a run. Not sure how he handled the opposition at state but I recall him saying some good things,

Posted by: Javems at January 07, 2022 03:46 PM (AmoqO)

93 He already has FU money... so, like Trump, he can now say what he wants.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2022 03:45 PM (oHd/0)

Doesn't hurt that he's Fox's top rated show

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2022 03:46 PM (TdaKq)

94 Teddy 1/7/21: "Yesterday's terrorist attack was a horrific assault on our democracy. Every terrorist needs to be fully prosecuted."

https://tinyurl.com/45t8bc5w

Yeah, pretty sure he's aware of the whole terrorist angle. Wish he'd have been half as strong on BLM and antifa for the previous 3 years.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 07, 2022 03:46 PM (wAnMi)

95 If Republicans want to know what most normal Americans actually think, but aren't sure how to verbalize succinctly, they'd do well to read the comment sections of various conservative blogs like this one.

Then they'd probably get a better grasp on what the silent majority is thinking about political issues.

And boobs.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 07, 2022 03:46 PM (YA914)

96 As lincoln said you can fool some of the people all of the time. Lying cancun ted cruz can lie to some of you and say who do you believe me or your lying eyes. Even tucker carlson had enough and called him a liar. Opportunists like lying turd crud can fool some;but not all even trump calls him lying ted!

Posted by: raimondo at January 07, 2022 03:47 PM (P9slB)

97 New Ammendment - All Congressional votes & meetings done remotely. If any Senator leaves his state or Rep leaves his district they are instantly relieved of office & arrested.

Posted by: 29Victor at January 07, 2022 03:47 PM (BJKQV)

98 23 Speaking of alien species representing us, Jack "cuck" Murphy is a 2021 Claremont Institute Lincoln Fellow.

Clown. World.

claremont.org/page/2021-lincoln-fellows/
Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2022 03:38 PM (YYlyE)

Holy moly. We're totally sunk.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 07, 2022 03:47 PM (cWyGz)

99 My favorite part: Tucker replies to Ted's blathering with "I don't believe you."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 07, 2022 03:47 PM (ptqGC)

100 He's not gonna spin his way out of this. How hard is it to actually say what you "meant" to say?

Posted by: Shooter McGavin at January 07, 2022 03:47 PM (wW+rv)

101 Not going to be good when it goes hot.

Cruz is toast. Actions, not words.

Posted by: Infidel at January 07, 2022 03:47 PM (qpolg)

102 Theresh nothning wrong with shloppy language. *hic*

Posted by: Suburban Wine Moms at January 07, 2022 03:47 PM (Xrfse)

103 Trump or DeSantis. It's that simple... even without this remark, Cruz wasn't cracking in front of either of those two.

Posted by: Reality Man at January 07, 2022 03:42 PM

My rule for choosing a Presidential candidate always starts with executive experience. So typically that means I will only consider Governors. Senators and Congressman are do-nothing, no responsibility, no accountability positions. They are simply 1 vote of 100 or 1 vote of 535. The buck never stops with them. So not going to trust someone like that with a promotion to the most important executive position in the world. If Cruz wants to be President, he can run for Governor of Texas first if I am ever to consider him.

But after his "terrorist" comments, I'll never consider him.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 07, 2022 03:48 PM (Do5/p)

104 Lawyers of Cruz's caliber do not make poor word choices - or more specifically - wrong word choices. He knew exactly what he was saying, and meant it that way. The only thing he's sorry about was misreading the room.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 07, 2022 03:42 PM (wAnMi)
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THIS.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2022 03:48 PM (2Padd)

105 Ted is cruzin' for a bruisin'.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 07, 2022 03:48 PM (a3Q+t)

106 We hear about how Congresspeople were wetting themselves waiting to be killed, but Fart-swell just answered to a picture of him with a gas-mask and his coat off saying that he was "ready to fight".

Going with the logic that we "almost lost democracy" that day, he's basically saying he would have lost any fight had anybody gotten further than Byrd's kill zone.

So, "ready to fight" has some range.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2022 03:48 PM (XHhHI)

107 Maybe Ted could wheel around in a wheel chair to boost his lameness?

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 07, 2022 03:48 PM (uia9V)

108 If they're "terrorists" Ted, how come not one has been charged with terrorism?

Did zero people from Texas attend the rally?

How many Texans are terrorists, Ted?

Posted by: Well at January 07, 2022 03:48 PM (Ab/Or)

109 99 My favorite part: Tucker replies to Ted's blathering with "I don't believe you."
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 07, 2022 03:47 PM (ptqGC)

LOL... I think he thought he was gonna get the Hannity treatment

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2022 03:48 PM (TdaKq)

110 23 Speaking of alien species representing us, Jack "cuck" Murphy is a 2021 Claremont Institute Lincoln Fellow.

Clown. World.

claremont.org/page/2021-lincoln-fellows/
Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2022 03:38 PM (YYlyE)

Is it just me, or does Charlie Kirk look just like David Hogg?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 07, 2022 03:49 PM (PiwSw)

111 Lying Ted lied.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2022 03:49 PM (todmg)

112 My rule for choosing a Presidential candidate always starts with executive experience. So typically that means I will only consider Governors. Senators and Congressman are do-nothing, no responsibility, no accountability positions. They are simply 1 vote of 100 or 1 vote of 535. The buck never stops with them. So not going to trust someone like that with a promotion to the most important executive position in the world. If Cruz wants to be President, he can run for Governor of Texas first if I am ever to consider him.

But after his "terrorist" comments, I'll never consider him.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 07, 2022 03:48 PM (Do5/p)
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1000+.

Running a legislative staff of 20 != running a state as its chief executive.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2022 03:49 PM (2Padd)

113 Speaking of alien species representing us, Jack "cuck" Murphy is a 2021 Claremont Institute Lincoln Fellow.

Clown. World.

claremont.org/page/2021-lincoln-fellows/
Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2022 03:38 PM (YYlyE)

Holy moly. We're totally sunk.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 07, 2022 03:47 PM (cWyGz)

That seems like it was from before his past was made public. Honestly, I didn't give a shit about Murphy or Claremont before either of this.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 07, 2022 03:49 PM (wmDcS)

114 His explanation is that he's used this sort of rhetoric about antifa and BLM when they attack cops a hundred times, so he just reverted to form and used it here.

Except there is no comparison between the hundreds of millions of dollars in damage, the deaths, injuries, businesses and lives ruined in the carnage of the BLM / Antifa riots and attempts at revolution and the rowdy tourists on safari at The People's House January 6th.

I have had house parties that were more out of control than the Jan 6 visit, and I didn't need random government thugs gunning down my unarmed guests.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 07, 2022 03:49 PM (+LCoQ)

115 86 I said yesterday and I'll say it again... I don't hate ted Cruz... He pissed my off with the stupid crap he said....
Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2022 03:45 PM (TdaKq)
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Yup. And he was was duly chastised by a respected friend.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 07, 2022 03:50 PM (UmCFK)

116 You could tell Ted was lying because he started raising his voice when he got called out.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 07, 2022 03:50 PM (YA914)

117 This reminds me how disappointing it was in 2016 when Lefty protesters in Chicago rioted outside a Trump rally and Ted called the Trump supporters violent.

As others have speculated, this is Ted demonstrating his hate for Trump.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2022 03:50 PM (URNdm)

118 1000+.

Running a legislative staff of 20 != running a state as its chief executive.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2022 03:49 PM (2Padd)

I'd rather a businessman who managed a staff of 20 than someone whose only experience has been in government.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 07, 2022 03:50 PM (wmDcS)

119 What doesn't Tucker believe? Ted's apology ?

Posted by: Just a side note at January 07, 2022 03:50 PM (mmU7u)

120 I dont like the fanatic response to jump on a person for mispeaking for allegedly stepping out of line.
Posted by: Whirligiginator at January 07, 2022 03:40 PM (eXAUD)

Well if it was a case of mis-speaking, that would be one thing. This guy, the smartest guy some Hahvahd professor ever taught, doesn't get that pass.

Much like clever pols everywhere, the words are chosen carefully, to say exactly what they want them to say.
So the average Joe has to parse what they say.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 07, 2022 03:50 PM (MFphb)

121 Holy shit! This OhMyGodicron is worse than I thought!

Justice Breyer says that there were "750 million new covid cases yesterday"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 07, 2022 03:50 PM (FVME7)

122 It's too cold to go outside anymore.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2022 03:50 PM (todmg)

123 Lawyers are known for having sloppy language. Precision in expression is for engineers.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2022 03:45 PM

Well--well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?

Posted by: Tom Smykowski at January 07, 2022 03:50 PM (EughT)

124 I admit to watching Tucker last night. As much as I wish he was not on FNC, I broke down to see Cruz. Truth be told, I try to turn the TV on when Tucker is on even when I don't watch. I want his ratings to have my up-vote.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 07, 2022 03:50 PM (4uu+s)

125 He was only there for the purpose of attempting to somehow salvage his hopes of running for President, again. Yes, we may all know he didn't have a chance before this, but he clearly doesn't know that.
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 07, 2022 03:46 PM (QYPq3)

I just wish he'd been honest. He said "terrorist" for a specific reason and it was none of the reasons he stated in the interview. That made me sad.

Posted by: 29Victor at January 07, 2022 03:50 PM (BJKQV)

126 Ted exposed himself as the weasel he is. His chances at national office are finished. Texans have a few years to find someone better for the primary. Ted! barely beat Beta last time, with less than 51% of the vote.

Posted by: cool breeze at January 07, 2022 03:50 PM (UGKMd)

127 Maybe Tucker asking him about Epps and other possible infiltrators was a warning to him to do something or else....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2022 03:51 PM (TdaKq)

128 Also from this clip, Cruz says that he has seen the left throw around language that disparages the right for the better part of the year.

And then...he joins them?

Who the hell can defend this guy? And he was my choice in 2016 but seriously? This ain't 2016 anymore.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 07, 2022 03:51 PM (KbCG3)

129 Cruz knew his comments would be pounced and seized upon by dems to show, see, even rabid right-winger Ted Cruz agrees it was a terrorist attack. If for no other reason, don't say such things.

Posted by: JuJuBee at January 07, 2022 03:51 PM (mNhhD)

130 They are simply 1 vote of 100 or 1 vote of 535.

There are 435 Representatives. Add the 100 Senators and you have 535 "Congresspersxns".

I denounce myself for injecting math into the comment stream.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 07, 2022 03:51 PM (a3Q+t)

131 Justice Breyer says that there were "750 million new covid cases yesterday"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 07, 2022 03:50 PM (FVME7)

Lawyer math. It's a helluva thing.

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at January 07, 2022 03:51 PM (GbPPJ)

132 But, I'm going to bring this up.

It really doesn't matter because sooo many people had already thrown Tucker under the bus when he didn't immediately buck Fox's editorial preference to not push Stop the Steal.

You basically acted like Tucker had no more use for the right, just like you're doing now with Cruz. But it can't be so, because Tucker could no longer serve the right, because of non-lock-stepness.

So, Tucker did nothing, because you people who decided that unless Tucker said your creed he was worthless are right.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2022 03:51 PM (XHhHI)

133 Cruz is often the smartest guy in the room who also possesses no ability to read it. Voted for him in the 16 primary, but since I don't live in Texas that is the one vote he'll ever see from me.

Posted by: Bete at January 07, 2022 03:52 PM (Ojki1)

134 >>Justice Breyer says that there were "750 million new covid cases yesterday"

And 90 million gun deaths last week!

Posted by: Terry MacAuliff at January 07, 2022 03:52 PM (URNdm)

135 Speaking of alien species

They're here...

Posted by: NASA Clock Boy Outreach at January 07, 2022 03:52 PM (Xrfse)

136 He knows he did the same thing Biden did in front of the pope, but unlike Biden, he's now aware of it.

You fucked up, Ted.

Posted by: Biden Stercore in eius braccae at January 07, 2022 03:53 PM (KX4VP)

137 Going with the logic that we "almost lost democracy" that day, he's basically saying he would have lost any fight had anybody gotten further than Byrd's kill zone.

We DID lose democracy that day. The GOP gave their blessing to the coup d'etat run by the Democrats.

We went from a Constitutional Republic with fair elections, to a soviet style Official Counting of the "Ballots".

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 07, 2022 03:53 PM (+LCoQ)

138 Not only is using the language and rhetoric of the left a win by default for the left, it betrays everyone but the left.

You can't argue forcefully that maybe some of the protestors had a point and their concerns should be assuaged, or at least looked into, if you agree with the language that defines ALL of them as less than worthy.

Ted did that

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 07, 2022 03:53 PM (MFphb)

139 I just wish he'd been honest. He said "terrorist" for a specific reason and it was none of the reasons he stated in the interview. That made me sad.
Posted by: 29Victor at January 07, 2022 03:50 PM (BJKQV)

No, you don't...you didn't want to hear him say "I used that term so I could get my presidential run payout and backing from the Republican parties' top leaders - aka, I sold out for this issue..." He really had nowhere to go, so the apology was his best play, and I do appreciate the apology - that was his one saving grace from all this...

Posted by: Nova local at January 07, 2022 03:53 PM (exHjb)

140 I like the way Tucker interrupts him the second time through and just says, "I don't believe you."

It's that kind of fearlessness and guileless perseverance that makes Tucker such a good interviewer of late. And he's not in any way intimidated by the person he's talking to. It was a useful conversation, though not completely exonerating on Cruz's part.

Posted by: red speck at January 07, 2022 03:53 PM (gS3OW)

141 107 Maybe Ted could wheel around in a wheel chair to boost his lameness?

Abbotts got that grift covered.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 07, 2022 03:53 PM (GYllL)

142 Speaking of alien species representing us, Jack "cuck" Murphy is a 2021 Claremont Institute Lincoln Fellow.

Clown. World.

claremont.org/page/2021-lincoln-fellows/
Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2022 03:38 PM (YYlyE)

Holy moly. We're totally sunk.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 07, 2022 03:47 PM (cWyGz)

There's no institution large or small that they haven't infiltrated. I gotta say, they're a patient lot.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 07, 2022 03:53 PM (wAnMi)

143 I certainly give credit to Tucker for grilling him. I give credit to Cruz for going into that grill session - but admit he could have and should have had a better response.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at January 07, 2022 03:45 PM (sX1BW)

ah, i tend to agree SH. I still like Ted. but this was a massive own goal. I'll give him the chance to recover, but he's a short leash. really as all politicians SHOULD be.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 07, 2022 03:53 PM (8D42x)

144 Lot of good voting to non certify the electoral vote did him.
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When he knew it was going to fail.
When he knew Pence was going to certify.

So brave. The man literally put his neck on the chopping block there-- we gotta cut him some slack for "sloppily" calling us terrorists.

Posted by: Well at January 07, 2022 03:53 PM (Ab/Or)

145 87 ...Right now I'm disgusted with him over this, but I'm willing to give him a chance to redeem himself. If he went down to visit the J6 prisoners, got involved in pushing for their release, and loudly called for Biden to immediately pardon everyone involved, I'd consider that a good start.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 07, 2022 03:45 PM (wmDcS)

Change the aspiration to 'eventually get to SCOTUS', and you've described Roberts, Barrett, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch.

On Cruz, I'm not happy, but I have some personal experience with how hard it is to make your online opinions match real-world local politics. I'm involved in town politics in a very minor way, and over the years our town has gone from 70% Rep to 50-50 Dem/Rep. Unaffiliated is our largest political group. I'm a Trump guy, but the knock on Trump in our town is that it will scare off the independents and prevent R's from attaining high office in the town. The Reagan R's that I know are deathly afraid of the Trumpers. This is a real thing, and there are lots of them here. It's an eye-opener, for sure.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 07, 2022 03:53 PM (cWyGz)

146 Cruz could be forgiven, due to incorrect information, in the beginning, for referring to Jan 6 as an insurrection.

However, since then, better information has come out, and, surprise, the "insurrection" happened on the D side of the aisle, through their accomplices in BLM and the FBI.

At which point, Cruz, after receiving better information, changes what he's saying, and says why.

Cruz has had a year to figure out what actually happened. And, he's more than smart enough to know the Pelosi's Jan 6 committee is nothing more than a show trial straight out of 1940's Stalinist Russia.

So, given all of that, Cruz cannot be given a pass, even if he now corrects the record.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 07, 2022 03:54 PM (5pTK/)

147 Did Ted also shit on the pope.

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 07, 2022 03:54 PM (todmg)

148 Justice Breyer says that there were "750 million new covid cases yesterday"

Every person in a decision making position in this country is a malinformed retard.

Posted by: Methos at January 07, 2022 03:54 PM (kOpft)

149 Kennedy is sometimes good, sometimes meh, but this is just plain AWESOME!! Nobody gets away without a kick in the ass.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8jkr87

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 07, 2022 03:46 PM (4uu+s)

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Would have been interesting if Whoopie had had this reaction.

Just confirms to me that her life is a contrived script.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at January 07, 2022 03:54 PM (TNyrE)

150 I don't know, as clumsy and dumb as his statement was, Cruz manned up and talked to Carlson,who he knew wouldn't go easy on him. I'm willing to let this slide if he actually does something about the endless fuckery surrounding 1/6 and/or the election.

Posted by: UGAdawg at January 07, 2022 03:54 PM (tRd71)

151 126 Ted exposed himself as the weasel he is. His chances at national office are finished. Texans have a few years to find someone better for the primary. Ted! barely beat Beta last time, with less than 51% of the vote.
Posted by: cool breeze at January 07, 2022 03:50 PM (UGKMd)

But who really is there BETTER that can win the Texas Repub primary - you gotta be a party guy to win that convoluted process, and all of them have shown themselves to be worse than Ted...someone has to be brought up from the grassroots to beat him in 30 - I don't think they can in 24...

Posted by: Nova local at January 07, 2022 03:54 PM (exHjb)

152 Cruz was making a little virtue-speak for his buddy comrades and forgot his real bosses could listen in. Fire him next time you can, Texas - failed basic integrity test. Next?

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at January 07, 2022 03:55 PM (9EsIa)

153 Justice Breyer says that there were "750 million new covid cases yesterday"

And this innumerate, senile, drugged up fool is going to vote to make We The People, from consent of the Governed, to chattel of the State.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 07, 2022 03:55 PM (+LCoQ)

154 Few people on January 6 committed any kind of violence, but the Democrats are using this "terrorist attack" as a justification, as a predicate, to criminalize all political opposition.

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And this is why I believe Ted Cruz to have a fundamental flaw in his thinking. A fatal flaw, even. He simply should've known better than to use the very language, on J6 of all dates, the Democrats are using to strip political opposition in near total. I won't speculate why. Only he knows. But I've moved him completely out of the support column. He slammed his wienie in the door and it broke off. It's a shame.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 07, 2022 03:55 PM (sVtYq)

155 Labelling these people as 'terrorists' is what enables them to hold them in prison for a year w/o formal charges or speedy trial.

even tho most are charged with 'parading' or trespass.

You dont give ammo to the Left like that
just to be philosophically consistent

Posted by: McCool at January 07, 2022 03:55 PM (BqBIh)

156 I'd rather a businessman who managed a staff of 20 than someone whose only experience has been in government.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 07, 2022 03:50 PM (wmDc

Businessman is accountable in several dimensions; while
government "experience" requirements are, shall we say, quite "flexible"!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at January 07, 2022 03:55 PM (hOUT3)

157 There's no institution large or small that they haven't infiltrated. I gotta say, they're a patient lot.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 07, 2022 03:53 PM (wAnMi)

Case in point: Tom Donnelly at AEI.

https://www.aei.org/profile/giselle-donnelly/

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 07, 2022 03:55 PM (PiwSw)

158 >>>Or nah. Just keep reading National Review. They've got their Finger on the Pulse.

It's a dirty job, but someone has to mind that inflamed hemorrhoid.

Posted by: Roy at January 07, 2022 03:55 PM (Ti+Tv)

159 Cruz is a worm (and couldn't credibly fake sincerity to save his life, which is real problem for a politician), but he's not the problem with GOP.

Not sure why we need a multi-day tantrum about the word choice of Ted Cruz when there's an easy 40+ squisher GOP senators than him on this very topic, much less on those topics that actually matter.

Posted by: Match Checksout at January 07, 2022 03:56 PM (dYe5S)

160 They are always shocked and surprised to learn what conservatives actually think. They're always left flat-footed and scrambling for cover and catch-up.

+++

Sir, we here are GOP, inc absolutely embrace conservative culture. We too love to shoot semi fully automatic guns and drive gas guzzling pickup trucks while chasing gay people.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 03:56 PM (OalnH)

161 Ted may be able to redeem himself. History did not end yesterday. But he needs to DO something.

Posted by: Valley Of Ancients at January 07, 2022 03:56 PM (5LCqK)

162 Biden is demented. He seriously has no idea what the speechwriters want him to say.

https://tinyurl.com/5n6r4pcm

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 07, 2022 03:56 PM (4uu+s)

163 Watched the tucker clip last night.
Ted's answers smelled of flop sweat and bull shit.

Posted by: Busted Can of Biscuits at January 07, 2022 03:56 PM (Dad7I)

164 Cruz was full-on damage control spinning.

Tucker could have asked him "If a cop goes to the trailer park on a domestic violence call and winds up wrestling with the perp, would you describe that a terrorist attack? A cop got punched. Is that terrorism?"

It's absurd.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 07, 2022 03:56 PM (YA914)

165 And this innumerate, senile, drugged up fool is going to vote to make We The People, from consent of the Governed, to chattel of the State.

--

If it's any consolation, Breyer was never going to vote anyway but...

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 07, 2022 03:56 PM (sVtYq)

166 The whole Leftist operation on making their takeover of the government on Trump and his supporters has pissed me off.
Buying into this their crime but our fault is actually growing not fading away.

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2022 03:56 PM (2JoB8)

167 Lot of good voting to non certify the electoral vote did him.
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When he knew it was going to fail.
When he knew Pence was going to certify.

Posted by: Well at January 07, 2022 03:53 PM (Ab/Or)
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But people were saying earlier all Cruz does is *talk*. Organizing and voting are actions.

What other actions are people expecting from a legislator?

He should have threatened to beat Pence down?

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2022 03:57 PM (XHhHI)

168 All is forgiven, Ted!

Posted by: Zombie Neville Chamberlain at January 07, 2022 03:57 PM (Xrfse)

169 No, you don't.
Posted by: Nova local at January 07, 2022 03:53 PM (exHjb)

Thanks, but yes I do. I want a GOP pol who isn't constantly trying to snow me, I've had enough of that.

Posted by: 29Victor at January 07, 2022 03:57 PM (BJKQV)

170 I'd rather a businessman who managed a staff of 20 than someone whose only experience has been in government.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile
_

Eh. Plenty of idiot business owners out there too. Why do you think 50% of new businesses fail within a couple of years?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 03:57 PM (OalnH)

171 https://tinyurl.com/5n6r4pcm
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 07, 2022 03:56 PM (4uu+s)

Get the hook....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2022 03:57 PM (TdaKq)

172 What doesn't Tucker believe? Ted's apology ?

Ted claims he misspoke.

Tucker has found him to be habitually careful in his choice of words.

Posted by: Methos at January 07, 2022 03:57 PM (kOpft)

173 We went from a Constitutional Republic with fair elections, to a soviet style Official Counting of the "Ballots".
Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 07, 2022 03:53 PM (+LCoQ)

that we allow a FOREIGN owned company count ballots in our elections.. is just stupid.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2022 03:57 PM (oHd/0)

174 Did Ted also shit on the pope.
Posted by: Joe Biden at January 07, 2022 03:54 PM (todmg)

Is a bear in the woods Catholic?

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 07, 2022 03:57 PM (44ww/)

175

I didn't mean you. I didn't mean me. I meant that guy behind the tree.

Posted by: Right Said Ted at January 07, 2022 03:58 PM (63Dwl)

176 Eh. Plenty of idiot business owners out there too. Why do you think 50% of new businesses fail within a couple of years?

Because they were able to embezzle the investor's money that quick?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 07, 2022 03:58 PM (+LCoQ)

177 He will have to do something to redeem himself but I don't think he will.

Posted by: f'd at January 07, 2022 03:58 PM (vrz2I)

178 But people were saying earlier all Cruz does is *talk*. Organizing and voting are actions.

What other actions are people expecting from a legislator?

He should have threatened to beat Pence down?
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2022 03:57 PM (XHhHI)

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I've been saying this as well and asking here... WHAT SPECIFICALLY would you have Ted Cruz do? Like not some vague "fight for my values" or whatever. Specific action, that he as a lone senator could take, to make you happy.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 03:58 PM (OalnH)

179 First, there was no shot in hell Cruz ever would have been elected president--fortunately.

Next, Cruz is a poor liar. How many of the "domestic terrorists" out of the hundreds arrested have been charged with assaulting a police officer? Twenty? Up your game, Teddy Boy.

Finally, what I wrote earlier today bears repeating. Cruz simply mouthed Beltway platitudes and forgot it would be heard by the rubes he needs to fool.

Cruz hardly is alone, and it is difficult to find a single GOP senator or MoC who has spoken out against the mistreatment of prisoners, let alone the fraud and sham associated with a relatively minor riot.

The massive state-sanctioned violence during the Summer of George not only did not receive condemnation, it was supported openly by many elected Republicans. Remember Romney marching with BLM?

Cruz is not worse than Romney. He is the same sack of shit, along with the rest of the GOP.

Trump singularly had the power to justifiably take out the GOP after what happened to him and form a new party. He did not, and possibly still could although the likelihood is smaller. As a result, political options to oppose totalitarianism are about gone.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 07, 2022 03:58 PM (nMx88)

180 Except there is no comparison between the hundreds of millions of dollars in damage, the deaths, injuries, businesses and lives ruined in the carnage of the BLM / Antifa riots and attempts at revolution and the rowdy tourists on safari at The People's House January 6th.

I have had house parties that were more out of control than the Jan 6 visit, and I didn't need random government thugs gunning down my unarmed guests.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 07, 2022 03:49 PM (+LCoQ)

I don't see what the big deal is. i'm sure the federal government has insurance to cover any property damage...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 07, 2022 03:58 PM (8D42x)

181 Trump pegged Ted 6 years ago. He has remained consistent.

Posted by: Roy at January 07, 2022 03:58 PM (Ti+Tv)

182 Now Ted's on Twitter pissing and moaning about Biden thinking about reducing our troops in Eastern Europe. Learn how to read the room Ted.

Posted by: Mike Pompeo at January 07, 2022 03:58 PM (4thlk)

183 What's going on with Joe's nasal passages?

"dring down prices"?

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2022 03:58 PM (XHhHI)

184 Off Pompeo sock.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 07, 2022 03:59 PM (4thlk)

185 So, Ted, an appellate lawyer with elite credentials and experience, offers as an excuse that he's just not super articulate and finds it difficult to accurately phrase things a year after they happen. How fucking stupid does this guy think we are?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 07, 2022 03:59 PM (QU5/8)

186 Get the hook....
Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2022 03:57 PM

This is about me, isn't it?

* sob *

Posted by: Michelle Fields at January 07, 2022 03:59 PM (a3Q+t)

187 Every person in a decision making position in this country is a malinformed retard.
Posted by: Methos at January 07, 2022 03:54 PM (kOpft)

Hasn't it been that way since JFK?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at January 07, 2022 03:59 PM (hOUT3)

188 73 He should be on the Supreme next to the wide ass Latina.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2022 03:44 PM (todmg)

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Beat me to it. I was impressed even by his questioning (more of an interview, leading-the-witness kind of exchange) during ACB's hearings, I would like to think he would have been more like Scalia, Thomas, and Alito instead of the many major "severely-conservative constitutionalist-originalist" disappointments we've had to endure over the decades.

Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 07, 2022 03:59 PM (IDdVj)

189 When I said that "You all eat dripping poo right out of the asshole of a camel with dysentery", I really meant to say "You are all fine upstanding citizens and I am honored to serve on your behalf".

Posted by: Ted Cruise at January 07, 2022 03:59 PM (ukNFU)

190 Eh. Plenty of idiot business owners out there too. Why do you think 50% of new businesses fail within a couple of years?
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 03:57 PM (OalnH)

No shit. But a businessman who has dealt with failing can make it an asset, because he understands how to handle failure. Compare that to so many government programs which never end even when it's obvious that they don't work. At least when a business doesn't perform it will hopefully fail. When a government agency or program doesn't perform, everyone involved gets pay raises and increased funding.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 07, 2022 03:59 PM (wmDcS)

191 Cruz or any other Republican Senator doesn't know what you think because you don't pay a lobby firm to tell them what you think.

My company has a lobby firm - the Senators we lobby, both Dems and Reps, know what we think, take meetings with our lobbyist. They then ask for donations in their campaigns - which we do - and round and round we go.

But you don't have that...so you are as the preverbally tree falling in the forest with regards to them.

Posted by: Boswell at January 07, 2022 03:59 PM (5iUNf)

192 183 What's going on with Joe's nasal passages?

"dring down prices"?
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2022 03:58 PM (XHhHI)

The massive drug infusions from yesterday have worn off

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2022 04:00 PM (TdaKq)

193 I still think the two smartest pols the GOP produced in the 20th century were Phil Gramm and Haley Barbour.

Posted by: mrp at January 07, 2022 04:00 PM (6eRlp)

194 How many Texans are terrorists, Ted?

Posted by: Well at January 07, 2022 03:48 PM (Ab/Or)

All Texans are terrorists.

Posted by: Ted Cruz de Santa Ana at January 07, 2022 04:00 PM (uhPTO)

195 66 They're rioters when they burn down your store.
They're terrorist when they sit in his chair.
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No, lefties are "mostly peaceful protesters" when they burn buildings down, throw Molotov cocktails into cop cars, and assault people.

They're never "rioters." In fact, the AP style guide instructs reporters not to use that awful, raaaaaacist word in relation to social justice warriors trying to achieve racial justice and call attention to systemic racial inequities!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at January 07, 2022 04:00 PM (k4dH2)

196 Trump pegged Ted 6 years ago.
Posted by: Roy at January 07, 2022 03:58 PM (Ti+Tv)
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Yet another sex assault claim?!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 07, 2022 04:00 PM (4uu+s)

197 Let the Fourth Reich deal with the Soviets.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2022 04:00 PM (todmg)

198 Given a little time and enough rope they all step on their dicks, including Kumala.

Posted by: dartist at January 07, 2022 04:01 PM (+ya+t)

199 Cruz or any other Republican Senator doesn't know what you think because you don't pay a lobby firm to tell them what you think.

Posted by: Boswell at January 07, 2022 03:59 PM (5iUNf)
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That is one thing that is true. Most of the work of Congress reps is done by their staff.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2022 04:01 PM (XHhHI)

200 Cruz is pretty smart, politically speaking, until this episode. I'd hate to seem him unseated by the likes of a Beto or whatever. His biggest problem in my opinion is that he's got the personality of wet cardboard. Whether he was inclined to say what he did by money, feelz, or something else has not really been answered IMO. Thus, I honestly don't care what happens to him, politically. Perhaps making a gesture of goodwill towards the base and get a bit more rabid in his defense of conservatives?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 07, 2022 04:01 PM (BFigT)

201
Haley Barbour.

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Smart? Yeah. He's smart.

But McConnell learned his bottomless Uniparty treachery from Barbour.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 07, 2022 04:01 PM (hQ23g)

202 I meant that guy behind the tree.
Posted by: Right Said Ted at January 07, 2022 03:58 PM

Take it to the Art Thread.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 07, 2022 04:01 PM (a3Q+t)

203 183 What's going on with Joe's nasal passages?

"dring down prices"?
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2022 03:58 PM (XHhHI)

Do not take trunalimunumaprzure if you are allergic to trunalimunumaprzure.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 07, 2022 04:01 PM (PiwSw)

204 Deeds, not words, Ted.

Put up or shut up.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 07, 2022 04:01 PM (eeRB6)

205 He should have threatened to beat Pence down?
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2022 03:57 PM (XHhHI)

With a cane! Give it some historical gravitas!

Then do it.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 07, 2022 04:02 PM (MFphb)

206 I've been saying this as well and asking here... WHAT SPECIFICALLY would you have Ted Cruz do? Like not some vague "fight for my values" or whatever. Specific action, that he as a lone senator could take, to make you happy.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 03:58 PM (OalnH)

Hunger strike for the J6ers til they get their speedy trials - no more delays.

Filibuster the senate floor forever til the J6ers are out on bail, which all of them should be for their level of crimes.

Stand for their rights for sufficient counsel of their choice, vs whatever democratic PD they are getting in DC - heck, stand for a change of venue due to the jury pool being too tainted.

Anything for the Constitution and law and order...

Posted by: Nova local at January 07, 2022 04:02 PM (exHjb)

207 No shit. But a businessman who has dealt with failing can make it an asset, because he understands how to handle failure. Compare that to so many government programs which never end even when it's obvious that they don't work. At least when a business doesn't perform it will hopefully fail. When a government agency or program doesn't perform, everyone involved gets pay raises and increased funding.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 07, 2022 03:59 PM (wmDcS)

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My point is we tend to elevate "BUSINESS OWNER" to some grand pedestal. And we shouldn't. Some businesses do well, some don't most fail. That's all.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 04:02 PM (OalnH)

208 204 Deeds, not words, Ted.

Put up or shut up.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 07, 2022

Yup.. I think Tucker was trying to "nudge" him in that direction

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2022 04:02 PM (TdaKq)

209 MTG to release her approved candidate list soon.

MTG list > Trump list?

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 07, 2022 04:02 PM (GYllL)

210 What's going on with Joe's nasal passages?

Decades of cocaine abuse.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 07, 2022 04:02 PM (+LCoQ)

211 Why is anyone giving Cruz credit for going on Tucker?

Oh no, he had to sit for 7 minutes while someone asked him a few pointed questions. The horror!

Let Cruz show up to the J6 gulag and tell the prisoners there why he considers them terrorists.

Or have him show up at a town hall of actual conservatives for more than 20 minutes.

The prick didn't even have to sit in a live studio, just had to be on camera for a few. Wow, what a brave sacrifice!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 07, 2022 04:02 PM (KbCG3)

212 Why do you think 50% of new businesses fail within a couple of years?
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 03:57 PM (OalnH)

Hmm, sounds like accountability and competence might be involved there?

Nah, that's crazy talk!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at January 07, 2022 04:03 PM (hOUT3)

213 209 MTG to release her approved candidate list soon.

MTG list > Trump list?
Posted by: Capital Eff at January 07, 2022 04:02 PM (GYllL)

MTG makes me think of Magic the Gathering. Just putting that out there.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 07, 2022 04:03 PM (z5Vrg)

214 I'm voting for Beto over Ted, because I want less ownership of the inevitable ... whatever the hell is coming.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 07, 2022 04:03 PM (44ww/)

215 Specific action, that he as a lone senator could take, to make you happy.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 03:58 PM

1. Object to every single "unanimous consent agreement" in the Senate.
2. Require a reading of every single bill in the Senate

Posted by: Chuck C at January 07, 2022 04:03 PM (EughT)

216 145 87 ...Right now I'm disgusted with him over this, but I'm willing to give him a chance to redeem himself. If he went down to visit the J6 prisoners, got involved in pushing for their release, and loudly called for Biden to immediately pardon everyone involved, I'd consider that a good start.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 07,
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He introduced a bill today prohibiting the federal government from blocking sales of Monoclonal antibodies, to states.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 07, 2022 04:04 PM (UmCFK)

217 Yup.. I think Tucker was trying to "nudge" him in that direction
Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2022 04:02 PM (TdaKq)

Agreed. And....the frustrating part is that Ted didn't have any 'here's what I'm going to do' ready. For a smart man, a good debater, he really makes a lot of mistakes. I saw that, to my sorrow, in his presidential campaign.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 07, 2022 04:04 PM (eeRB6)

218 210 What's going on with Joe's nasal passages?

What's left of his frontal lobe leaking out?

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 07, 2022 04:04 PM (GYllL)

219 What would you have me do?

Posted by: Zombie Neville Chamberlain at January 07, 2022 04:04 PM (Xrfse)

220 Let's assume Cruz really does think that anyone who does violence against a co is a terrorist, and that he is being even-handed in that assessment when he discussed Jan 6 and he used the same language with the same intention when describing the Floyd riots.

That is an insane standard on its face. Terrorists don't punch people in the face or shoot them. They tend to plant bombs or smash through crowds. Terrorists don't usually target individuals (though terror groups may use assassins or smaller mobs to do so as a part of a wider campaign), they go after swaths of people at once. They drive trucks through crowds or blow up buses and buildings. Terrorist violence is larger-scale and indiscriminate violence is a major part of the strategy, because the goal is to engender fear (terror) as broadly as possible to achieve their objectives. It's asymmetrical warfare, not scattershot, one-off violence in the midst of a riot or similar.

Even if he's being consistent, his standard is unreasonable and insane.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 07, 2022 04:04 PM (DU+/6)

221 MTG to release her approved candidate list soon.

MTG list > Trump list?

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 07, 2022 04:02 PM (GYllL)

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She knows what's needed in the House, so yes.

Bigger question, did McCarthy even get wind of it?

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at January 07, 2022 04:04 PM (TNyrE)

222 Meh

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at January 07, 2022 04:04 PM (ytSiK)

223 TuCa took Cruz to the woodshed. Cruz was spinning like a mofo, as he now clearly recognizes that he stepped in the dog's business, and is try explain away his comments.

No sale, Ted. No sale.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2022 04:04 PM (2Padd)

224 MTG to release her approved candidate list soon.

MTG list > Trump list?
Posted by: Capital Eff at January 07, 2022 04:02 PM (GYllL)

MTG makes me think of Magic the Gathering. Just putting that out there.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 07, 2022 04:03 PM (z5Vrg)
*Drops Taiga*
*Tap for Red mana*
*Plays Kird Ape*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 07, 2022 04:04 PM (eeRB6)

225 Anything for the Constitution and law and order...
Posted by: Nova local at January 07, 2022 04:02 PM (exHjb)

You expect a lot from a lawyer...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at January 07, 2022 04:05 PM (hOUT3)

226 Name 1 time Cruz voted in a way that upset you. I don't know if you can. I can't think of any off the top of my head. I'm sure there's been some bullshit little stuff, but on the big things. Taxes? Guns? Immigration? SCOTUS nominees? Cruz has been a consistent vote for our side. But he said one stupid thing so he's the worst person in the world now.

This is why we never fucking win in the long run.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 04:05 PM (OalnH)

227 What I keep learning, again and again, and am continually surprised by (more fool me), is that literally none of these people read us or hear us at all.

I do not wish you to even consider this, but...

That's why I shut down Word Around the Net. Because I saw it was futile.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 07, 2022 04:05 PM (KZzsI)

228 My point is we tend to elevate "BUSINESS OWNER" to some grand pedestal. And we shouldn't. Some businesses do well, some don't most fail. That's all.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 04:02 PM (OalnH)

I agree that they shouldn't be put on a pedestal. My point is that I would trust someone with that experience more than someone whose entire adult life has been spent in political jobs and resume building.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 07, 2022 04:05 PM (wmDcS)

229 "Cruz or any other Republican Senator doesn't know what you think because you don't pay a lobby firm to tell them what you think."
Posted by: Boswell at January 07, 2022 03:59 PM (5iUNf)

He's got Shapiro's lap dog Michael Knowles to keep him up to date on what the base is feeling.
Heh.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 07, 2022 04:05 PM (4thlk)

230 Well he heard from me clearly and unequivocally because I called his office--twice. First when I read about his remarks, and again after watching him unsuccessfully defend himself on Tucker.

Look, terrorism is a specific term and not, imho, applicable to the violent protestors of either stripe. It is typically Islamist and involves significant loss of life at one time. Those that lost their lives in real terrorist incidents (9/11, attack on Marines in Beirut, early WTC bombings, Oklahoma City bombing) and other similar incidents deserve the respect due them by using PRECISE language.

Cruz of all people should wield his words carefully and specifically. He was instead signaling to his co-deep staters that his other rhetoric is merely to appease the sheeple and he really--wink wink--is in alignment with the rest of the corrupt political establishment.

DONE with him.

Posted by: groovy girl at January 07, 2022 04:05 PM (ybC9u)

231 Ask your congressman "Is 366 days a speedy trial, yes or no?"

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 07, 2022 04:06 PM (44ww/)

232 I guess if you subscribe to the definition of terrorism as "violence intended to effect a political outcome", I guess the assholes bashing in the windows of the Capitol and assaulting cops probably qualify. But that was a small minority, and I'm fairly certain they were all employees of the Federal Government or ANTIFA (BIRM).

Anyway, I voted for this Eddie Munster looking MFer in 2016, and I'm all in for Trump or Desantis in 2024, unless the option of Zombie General Pinochet is on the table.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at January 07, 2022 04:06 PM (r+obg)

233 I've been saying this as well and asking here... WHAT SPECIFICALLY would you have Ted Cruz do? Like not some vague "fight for my values" or whatever. Specific action, that he as a lone senator could take, to make you happy.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 03:58 PM (OalnH)

Ted Cruz is a Senator from a rather large state. When he speaks, media can and does show up to listen.

He SHOULD be making speeches talking about the lies told about 6 Jan, about what happened to the protesters lock in solitary, about the people the FIB have removed from the wanted list, about why no one has seen 14,000 hours of tape from the capital, why were the doors unlocked, etc.

he should be doing this in TX every time he steps off the plane, he should be doing this on ANY TV show he's invited on, HE SHOULD BE DOING THIS FROM THE SENATE WELL IN THE OFFICIAL RECORD, THIS SHOULD BE THE FIRST, MIDDLE, AND LAST TOPIC OF ANY PUBLIC CONVERSATION HE HAS.

that's a good start

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 07, 2022 04:06 PM (8D42x)

234 Don't ask people inside the beltway what people outside the beltway think, teddy.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 07, 2022 04:06 PM (bKdTl)

235 Posted by: lowandslow at January 07, 2022 04:05 PM (4thlk)

How so?

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 07, 2022 04:06 PM (YXhrd)

236 But McConnell learned his bottomless Uniparty treachery from Barbour.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 07, 2022 04:01 PM (hQ23g)

======================

Haley Barbour kept a close ear to the concerns of his constiuency. "I might have been born yesterday, but I wasn't born last night." Cruz could draw a lesson from that. But he won't.

Posted by: mrp at January 07, 2022 04:06 PM (6eRlp)

237 Ted is still better than any Democrat/ Marxist, but higher aspersions are going to be a stretch. And in Texas he is better that Beto.

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2022 04:06 PM (2JoB8)

238 He introduced a bill today prohibiting the federal government from blocking sales of Monoclonal antibodies, to states.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 07, 2022 04:04 PM (UmCFK)

R's are good and introducing bills that they know will go nowhere.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 07, 2022 04:06 PM (UuD2k)

239 73 He should be on the Supreme next to the wide ass Latina.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2022 03:44 PM (todmg)
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Beat me to it. I was impressed even by his questioning (more of an interview, leading-the-witness kind of exchange) during ACB's hearings, I would like to think he would have been more like Scalia, Thomas, and Alito instead of the many major "severely-conservative constitutionalist-originalist" disappointments we've had to endure over the decades.
Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 07, 2022 03:59 PM (IDdVj)

This was when I began to sour on Ted the politician. He had a golden opportunity to be on SCOTUS. Trump made him an offer. He turned it down because he thinks he can be POTUS. If anything, Beto was the wake-up call he needed to know where his future lies, but he doesn't read the room properly. As a Senator, he's one in 100, and if he's in the minority party he can't do anything. If leadership won't let him into leadership he can do even less. On SCOTUS, he has much more power - real-world, conservative power to actually change things, insulated from public opinion - and he turned it down.

All I needed to know.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 07, 2022 04:06 PM (cWyGz)

240 Hmm, sounds like accountability and competence might be involved there?

Nah, that's crazy talk!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3)
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Yup.
Five years to make a profit goes back to mid 20th century.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 07, 2022 04:06 PM (UmCFK)

241
He introduced a bill today prohibiting the federal government from blocking sales of Monoclonal antibodies, to states.

Republican's seem to always put out great bills when they're in the minority.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 07, 2022 04:07 PM (GYllL)

242 This is why we never fucking win in the long run.

Yes.

Posted by: Mittens Rombley at January 07, 2022 04:07 PM (Xrfse)

243 yeah I'm not buying anything from the fuckboys that leaped to agree with the narrative. lyin' Ted, dumbshit Driscoll over at instapundit. fuck those snakes.

Posted by: x at January 07, 2022 04:07 PM (oA+QO)

244 I agree that they shouldn't be put on a pedestal. My point is that I would trust someone with that experience more than someone whose entire adult life has been spent in political jobs and resume building.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 07, 2022 04:05 PM (wmDcS)
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At this point, I would trust a random resident from a city or town of fewer than 100,000 people in America's interior more than a career politician.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 07, 2022 04:07 PM (DU+/6)

245 He introduced a bill today prohibiting the federal government from blocking sales of Monoclonal antibodies, to states.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 07, 2022 04:04 PM (UmCFK)

Meh, politicians do that all the time. They introduce a bill that they know has no chance of passing, because it's easy to point to during elections.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 07, 2022 04:07 PM (wmDcS)

246 My point is we tend to elevate "BUSINESS OWNER" to some grand pedestal. And we shouldn't. Some businesses do well, some don't most fail. That's all.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 04:02 PM (OalnH)

Most people we think of when we talk about business owners are the successful ones. Being a successful business owner is something of an accomplishment.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 07, 2022 04:07 PM (z5Vrg)

247 He introduced a bill today prohibiting the federal government from blocking sales of Monoclonal antibodies, to states.

How about filing a lawsuit against the Executive for this unlawful and deadly action.

Right now we have a bunch of mental retards in SCOTUS pretending that the government loves people and every single decree and action is all about Love & Security and guaranteeing perfect health of everyone.

When in fact that they hide, destroy and criminalize every honest attempt to save lives.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 07, 2022 04:08 PM (+LCoQ)

248 "But he ~~said a bunch of unforced stupid things and awarded capitol police officers for shooting a woman~~ so he's the worst person in the world now."

Fixed it for you. I'm not willing to just throw the guy out for this but I don't consider him a front runner or any kind of conservative voice any more.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 07, 2022 04:08 PM (KZzsI)

249 But people were saying earlier all Cruz does is *talk*. Organizing and voting are actions.

What other actions are people expecting from a legislator?

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Legislators have little power. People seem to want rhetoric - which Cruz occasionally provides. People want votes against the Dems - which Cruz typically provides. But people also want perfection - which Cruz nor any legislator provides. This is why it is so hard for Senators to become President - at least from the GOP side.

I'll stand by what I said. It was bad, but I think Cruz has earned the opportunity to make right, and time will tell if he takes that opportunity. Certainly a message was sent, not just to him, but all who align more with the base than the GOPe. The base will not give you much tolerance. Maybe that is a good thing.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at January 07, 2022 04:08 PM (sX1BW)

250 These are the same people who denouce democrats for defending their lying politicians. As LBJ said he may be a son of a bit*h ;but he's are son of of a bitc*h!

Posted by: raimondo at January 07, 2022 04:08 PM (P9slB)

251
This is why we never fucking win in the long run.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 04:05 PM (OalnH)

Sure.

It's not because someone spends years telegraphing their treachery, and then we make a bunch of excuses for it, and then get screwed.

Sorry, but I'm done making excuses for these douchebags. As always - feel free to keep doing it. Maybe you'll find they've changed. But I'm done.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 07, 2022 04:08 PM (hQ23g)

252 Cruz has been a consistent vote for our side. But he said one stupid thing so he's the worst person in the world now.

This is why we never fucking win in the long run.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 04:05 PM (OalnH)

And that's why I think we should keep backing him for the Senate seat til Texans can actually find someone better to make it through the party system. He is a tried and true vote for us which has to count...

But he now needs to do something about J6, and not go into distraction - maybe he should chat with MTG if he needs ideas, more than I posted...

PS - To keep going on what he can do - MEET the J6ers in prison, see about what needs they have and how they can be met. I heard Kamala set up funds...why couldn't Ted set one up, too...pay for good lawyers, bail, medicines, child support, etc...if Kamala can do it, Ted can, too...

Posted by: Nova local at January 07, 2022 04:08 PM (exHjb)

253 At the very least, I would like it if teddy did not adopt the language of the left when talking about people he supposedly shares ideology with.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 07, 2022 04:08 PM (bKdTl)

254 BourbonChicken and for trespassing at that.

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2022 04:08 PM (2JoB8)

255
Republican's seem to always put out great bills when they're in the minority.
Posted by: Capital Eff at January 07, 2022 04:07 PM (GYllL)

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Fuckin' eh they do!!

Posted by: 27 Bills that repealed Obamacare from 2011 to 2016 at January 07, 2022 04:08 PM (OalnH)

256 "I might have been born yesterday, but I wasn't born last night." Cruz could draw a lesson from that. But he won't.
Posted by: mrp at January 07, 2022 04:06 PM

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE JOKE IS "I MAY HAVE BEEN BORN AT NIGHT BUT I WASN'T BORN LAST NIGHT"

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 07, 2022 04:08 PM (EughT)

257
Now Ted's on Twitter pissing and moaning about Biden thinking about reducing our troops in Eastern Europe. Learn how to read the room Ted.
Posted by: Mike Pompeo

He's reading the room that matters.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 07, 2022 04:08 PM (63Dwl)

258 But he said one stupid thing so he's the worst person in the world now.

This is why we never fucking win in the long run.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 04:05 PM (OalnH)

He played his part to allow Pelosi, et al to continue their charade. He gave credibility to all of their show trials, as well as to the indefinite detention of those J6ers rotting away.

Yeah, he's a reliable vote, but there's more to being a party leader than voting. If you had seen a transcript of his quote attributed to Pelosi, you would've believed she said it. That's a problem.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 07, 2022 04:08 PM (KbCG3)

259 Fixed it for you. I'm not willing to just throw the guy out for this but I don't consider him a front runner or any kind of conservative voice any more.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 07, 2022 04:08 PM (KZzsI)
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Agreed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 07, 2022 04:08 PM (5pTK/)

260 Cruz has slowly evolved into the grifter that all politicians become once ensconced into elected office. It even happens to the dog catcher. What's not to understand? To keep the status quo becomes the objective. Few people thrive on change. And changing into a 9-5 private sector worker, even as his own boss, is a scary thought to him as all gubmit workers. Accountability is scary. He exposed his lack of desire in that vein to Tucker.

Posted by: Robert17 at January 07, 2022 04:08 PM (h8QUa)

261 What would you have me do?
Posted by: Zombie Neville Chamberlain at January 07, 2022 04:04 PM (Xrfse)

You could act Like a MAN!

Posted by: Don Corleone at January 07, 2022 04:09 PM (MFphb)

262 I don't know, as clumsy and dumb as his statement was, Cruz manned up and talked to Carlson,who he knew wouldn't go easy on him. I'm willing to let this slide if he actually does something about the endless fuckery surrounding 1/6 and/or the election.
Posted by: UGAdawg at January 07, 2022 03:54 PM (tRd71)
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January 6 is one of the most fucked-up things in the history of this country.

No due process/assumption of guilt/no speedy trial.
FIB sweeps of people who were *near* the capital.
A year of DC gulag conditions.
The suggestion of the AG Leventriy Gulag Garland that people who *were* not in Washington might need to be swept up.
Subpoenaing the phone records of private individuals (which resulted in nothing) and the opposing party candidates (which also resulted in nothing).
The threat to 14th-amendment Congress reps out of office.

He should do his penance on Jan-6 bullshit for *feeding* the Jan-6 bullshit.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2022 04:09 PM (XHhHI)

263 If I were in Texas and it was between Cruz and a dem, I'd vote Cruz...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2022 04:09 PM (TdaKq)

264 I went out and started my car this afternoon. Someone, possibly one of our new future democrat voters, had stolen my catalytic converter. I called the police and they said it's been happening a lot lately. I am very pissed.

Posted by: huerfano at January 07, 2022 04:09 PM (MzKgG)

265 But people were saying earlier all Cruz does is *talk*.
Organizing and voting are actions.
What other actions are people expecting from a legislator?
He should have threatened to beat Pence down?
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The things Cruz does do are weak, in-effective.
I know exactly what he CAN do.

Posted by: Well at January 07, 2022 04:09 PM (Ab/Or)

266 226 Name 1 time Cruz voted in a way that upset you. I don't know if you can. I can't think of any off the top of my head. I'm sure there's been some bullshit little stuff, but on the big things. Taxes? Guns? Immigration? SCOTUS nominees? Cruz has been a consistent vote for our side. But he said one stupid thing so he's the worst person in the world now.

This is why we never fucking win in the long run.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 04:05 PM (OalnH)

Not at all. Strategically it's a good idea to remind the politicians of their place as often and as hard as possible.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 07, 2022 04:09 PM (z5Vrg)

267 I work in a company where 95% of the employees would lose money running a lemonade stand. These are the same people who vote.

Posted by: Ted Cruise at January 07, 2022 04:09 PM (ukNFU)

268 If you want to know what Ted Cruz thinks of you, ffs start taking him at his word.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2022 04:09 PM (9AWuc)

269 Not sure why we need a multi-day tantrum about the word choice of Ted Cruz when there's an easy 40+ squisher GOP senators than him on this very topic, much less on those topics that actually matter.
Posted by: Match Checksout at January 07, 2022 03:56 PM

Yep. Now do Thom Tillis.

Where's NipSip BTW?

*spit

Posted by: Golfman at January 07, 2022 04:09 PM (cDqYg)

270 Sure.

It's not because someone spends years telegraphing their treachery, and then we make a bunch of excuses for it, and then get screwed.

Sorry, but I'm done making excuses for these douchebags. As always - feel free to keep doing it. Maybe you'll find they've changed. But I'm done.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 07, 2022 04:08 PM (hQ23g)

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I get it. He said something that angers a lot of people. But big picture, would you rather have someone who says things that give you warm and fuzzies or someone who is a reliable consistent vote when it matters? I know which I take.

Posted by: 27 Bills that repealed Obamacare from 2011 to 2016 at January 07, 2022 04:09 PM (OalnH)

271 Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 07, 2022 04:06 PM (8D42x)

Yeah. I like this.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 07, 2022 04:09 PM (YXhrd)

272 Now Ted's on Twitter pissing and moaning about Biden thinking about reducing our troops in Eastern Europe. Learn how to read the room Ted.

Who will deliver the pizza if not the Party's emasculated and neutered military?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 07, 2022 04:09 PM (+LCoQ)

273 Oops. Sock off.

Posted by: johnd01 at January 07, 2022 04:09 PM (ukNFU)

274 Ted's problem is that he actually does hear people like us, he is just gotten used to the trope that he may know better because of "who" he is. It's been a tragic 10 year arc to witness. Love the sinner, hate the sin.

Posted by: Indignatio Vindicatorem at January 07, 2022 04:10 PM (oWBc3)

275 Speaking of Jan. 6th.. A Man in my County was arrested yesterday for trespassing.... One friggin year later and a trespassing charge....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2022 04:10 PM (TdaKq)

276 How so?
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 07, 2022 04:06 PM (YXhrd)

They do a weekly show for the Daily Wire. My point was Michael Knowles and The Daily Wire is the last place you should go to understand the mood of the public.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 07, 2022 04:10 PM (4thlk)

277 As LBJ said he may be a son of a bit*h ;but he's are son of of a bitc*h!
Posted by: raimondo

Except we are finding out that our sonsabitches are really their sonsabitches.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 07, 2022 04:11 PM (bKdTl)

278 Face it, Cruz and even Rand Paul are just the Bernie Sanders of the right. They are there to say the stuff that fires up the base, but have no real impact in DC. Bernie probably has more, but that's only because he has so many crazy followers.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 07, 2022 04:11 PM (UuD2k)

279 Off Obamacare bill sock

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 04:11 PM (OalnH)

280 My point is we tend to elevate "BUSINESS OWNER" to some grand pedestal. And we shouldn't. Some businesses do well, some don't most fail. That's all.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 04:02 PM (OalnH)

When I was in Private Equity - the rule was one in four had to marginally succeed - one in ten needed to be a home run. I can't begin to tell you how hard it is for that to happen. But to survive in a PE shop - you better be able to make that happen for your clients.

Posted by: Boswell at January 07, 2022 04:11 PM (5iUNf)

281 But McConnell learned his bottomless Uniparty treachery from Barbour.

Everyone likes to blame McConnell. But what GOPer breaks ranks and doesn't approve these omnibus spending bills and increase the debt limit when the GOP is in charge? We have not had an ordinary budget process in what, 15 years or so? Who's to blame? It's all of them, including everyone's favorites.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 07, 2022 04:11 PM (QU5/8)

282 It would be a bit hard for Cruz to go into the jail cells of the J6 political prisoners and advocate for them after he just called them terrorists.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 07, 2022 04:11 PM (sVtYq)

283 My point is we tend to elevate "BUSINESS OWNER" to some grand pedestal.

why? they pay taxes. that's more than any government employee does.

Posted by: x at January 07, 2022 04:11 PM (oA+QO)

284 The Mootrix.

Cows cooped up for the winter are being fitted with virtual reality goggles - so they think they are outside in a summer field.

And the bamboozled bovines appear to be happier and producing more milk.

Snaps of the experiment have been amusing film buffs on social media, where they have been compared to shots from sci-fi classic The Matrix.

https://bit.ly/3HJrG5E

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 07, 2022 04:11 PM (FVME7)

285 Terror attacks specifically are resolved around using violent to change your opponent's activities.

So, blowing up civilian buildings to force western military/diplomatic aid to the House of Saud for example.

A group of people peacefully protested in DC and some trespassed into the People's House. No violence. No fear.

Calling that terror is asinine. The only people killed were protestors - none of whom were armed.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2022 04:11 PM (ESjRY)

286
Is the big Jan 6 Remembrance over now, or is it like the 12 days of Christmas?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 07, 2022 04:11 PM (a34Pz)

287 Is this too big an error to ignore from Cruz?

In my view, probably. He's getting really sloppy as of late, and his sense of awareness is not what it used to be. While I count on him to be right on issues the vast majority of the time, he can't ever be wrong on the critical ones at any time.

He's sadly pulled a Palin, for which the road to recovery may be too steep a hill to climb.

Posted by: itzWicks at January 07, 2022 04:11 PM (ifUkZ)

288 Has anyone checked to see if he HAS previously used that manner of speech before?

I can't remember it being noted by the Media and I think that they make big to do about him saying that those who attack police are terrorists. Because that would include BLM and Antifa which are their angels.

Now they have made "Terroristic" a part of a lot of laws rewritten from the regular laws about battery, assault, threats and such so that the wording now of the charges always have that formulation with in them ". . . making terroristic threats" like that.

I'd be interested to know whether he has used that means of describing people going after Police. But I sure don't remember any.

Posted by: jakee308 at January 07, 2022 04:12 PM (n08+I)

289 Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2022 04:09 PM (TdaKq)

I would too. But I would let his office know I will support his primary if he does not get his shit together.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 07, 2022 04:12 PM (YXhrd)

290 All Senators love to talk and talk and talk. And none of them can ever really do anything on their own. All I ask for a senator is to vote the right way when it matters. The rest of the time? Don't really give any fucks.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 04:12 PM (OalnH)

291 He had a golden opportunity to be on SCOTUS. Trump made him an offer.

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First I'm hearing of this. I waver on whether Cruz the Justice would be a good thing or not. On one hand, I think he has too much ambition to be on the Court where most justices think it is a lifelong achievement - he would be restless. On other hand, maybe that would be a good thing. Would be interesting to see someone try to move from the Court to the Executive - a reverse Taft. And that ambition may keep him in full check. But I've always doubted he could ever make it through the confirmation process.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at January 07, 2022 04:12 PM (sX1BW)

292 I would too. But I would let his office know I will support his primary if he does not get his shit together.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 07, 2022 04:12 PM (YXhrd)

Exactly

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2022 04:12 PM (TdaKq)

293 He's sadly pulled a Palin, for which the road to recovery may be too steep a hill to climb.

What exactly did Palin do to hurt her political career?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 07, 2022 04:12 PM (KZzsI)

294 Methinks that ted cruz jumped the shark with these comments and he knows it and is doing damage control in anticipation of a primary opponent or two in 2024.

If Trump is on the ticket, he is doomed.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at January 07, 2022 04:12 PM (bVYXr)

295 But he said one stupid thing so he's the worst person in the world now.

He's not the worst person in the world now.

But he is vying to be the head of the party. And the hundreds of people rotting in jail are being denied their right to a speedy trial and fair jurisprudence under the auspices that they are terrorists/insurrectionists.

And that's not a minor issue. My government detaining citizens unfairly as political prisoners is not a minor thing. That could be me or someone I know sitting in there, being stripped naked and humiliated and forced into North Korean style reprogramming and making shame statements. That's not minor. That's an atrocity and against everything this country has ever stood for.

And if he lacked the courage to say that in the hearing, he at least could have had the courage to say nothing.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 07, 2022 04:13 PM (YA914)

296 It would be a bit hard for Cruz to go into the jail cells of the J6 political prisoners and advocate for them after he just called them terrorists.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 07, 2022 04:11 PM (sVtYq)

Not at all. He visits them, comes back, publicly says, "I was mistaken about who these people are. I was wrong to call them terrorists when they're not. I don't agree with what some of them did, but I realize now just how unjust what's happening actually is, and I want to see it corrected."

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 07, 2022 04:13 PM (wmDcS)

297 For a fucking *year* they made the point about the *peaceful* part of the crowd (i.e. "riot cover"), but Jan-6 is about people *standing* and *attending* and *parading*!!

They say vandalism isn't violence--so fucking PARADING IS??!

But this assumes a discussion with leftist, and they have no interest in that. In fact they feel icky if they start to get on common terms (because that's just understanding a RAAAAACIST).

No. When they say "mostly peaceful" that's the end of the story. They are not going to engage your misinformation from there on in. There is no invitation for back-and-forth. They have told you their explanation, now go away and let them fume about how parades are almost as bad as Hiroshima!

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2022 04:13 PM (XHhHI)

298 Thinking on it overnight, I know that Cruz is a law and order type candidate, and he knows he has a win there, especially after the last couple of years with the plandemic, but (and this is a real but) he is handicapped by thinking like a DA or an Attorney General. I don't think he believes that he can do anything but obey the law, when in fact he WRITES the law.

I hope this is his wake up call, and the notification that he is not able to coast on his colleagues' interpretation of facts

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2022 04:13 PM (ZMraq)

299 it's not enough. what about the behavior of the police. why did they beat people to death? why did they shoot someone? why did they LET PEOPLE IN.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 07, 2022 04:13 PM (ZZK0E)

300 What exactly did Palin do to hurt her political career?

Trust John McCain?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2022 04:13 PM (ESjRY)

301
It was Barbour who set up that hideous, execrable stunt against Chris McDaniel. McConnell wanted it done, and Barbour, even in retirement, lent his little buddy the assist. Because he's a machine man, and so is Mitch, and so was Cochran.

When it comes down to the wire, and the rubber meets the road... ALL OF THEM ARE THE SAME.

Cruz is no exception.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 07, 2022 04:13 PM (hQ23g)

302 290 All Senators love to talk and talk and talk. And none of them can ever really do anything on their own. All I ask for a senator is to vote the right way when it matters. The rest of the time? Don't really give any fucks.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 04:12 PM (OalnH)

And you know what general indifference communicates to Senators? That they can get away with whatever they want since no one is paying attention.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 07, 2022 04:13 PM (z5Vrg)

303
What exactly did Palin do to hurt her political career?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 07, 2022 04:12 PM (KZzsI)

Accepted the VP slot from McCain

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2022 04:13 PM (TdaKq)

304 This busty brunette on a couch is pretty unhappy about being lumped in with terrorists thanks to a pervasive left-wing narrative:
https://is.gd/rYyAcu

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 07, 2022 04:13 PM (DU+/6)

305 I nominate Ben Had to primary Cruz!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 07, 2022 04:13 PM (PiwSw)

306 So, Ted, when you see the video of Epps and someone starts chanting "fed, fed fed!" why do you think people know that the feds want to entrap conservatives but let anti-fa off the hook?

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 07, 2022 04:13 PM (ZZK0E)

307 282 It would be a bit hard for Cruz to go into the jail cells of the J6 political prisoners and advocate for them after he just called them terrorists.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 07, 2022 04:11 PM (sVtYq)

Well, I heard the apology, too...and when you repent, you are supposed to do penance related to the sin...so it's kinda perfect. Make him go there and hear what they say...and then make him help...That's what we, as his base, should push. He has a mouthpiece that MTG doesn't...and a law and order cred that could finally move things...

Posted by: Nova local at January 07, 2022 04:14 PM (exHjb)

308 Name 1 time Cruz voted in a way that upset you. I don't know if you can. I can't think of any off the top of my head. I'm sure there's been some bullshit little stuff, but on the big things. Taxes? Guns? Immigration? SCOTUS nominees? Cruz has been a consistent vote for our side. But he said one stupid thing so he's the worst person in the world now.

This is why we never fucking win in the long run.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 04:05 PM (OalnH)

We won in 2016. Did we win in 2020? I think so. Lots of shenanigans. Came within a few seats of taking the House, even though Brandon reaped a record number of "votes". Funny how that turned out, eh? Are we "losing" now? I don't think so. If we were "losing" Cruz wouldn't have begged Tucker for airtime.

Posted by: mrp at January 07, 2022 04:14 PM (6eRlp)

309 All I ask for a senator is to vote the right way when it matters. The rest of the time? Don't really give any fucks.
Posted by: Joe XiDen

it would be nice if they got in the donk's face and called them on their bs like MTG does.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 07, 2022 04:14 PM (IJES/)

310 Is the big Jan 6 Remembrance over now, or is it like the 12 days of Christmas?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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This going to last longer than John "crash" McCain's GD funeral.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 07, 2022 04:14 PM (iDcra)

311 What I keep learning, again and again, and am continually surprised by (more fool me), is that literally none of these people read us or hear us at all.

They are always shocked and surprised to learn what conservatives actually think. They're always left flat-footed and scrambling for cover and catch-up.

They live in a bubble of Conservative, Inc. cvcks, liberal pollsters, neoliberal corporate donors, and assorted leftwing media traitors.
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You're burying the lede here, ace. Or maybe just not being explicit enough for my taste. They don't appear to know what we think because they don't *agree* with us in any way shape or form.

Yet every now and again someone like Mitch or Lindsay or Fightin' Patch Boy or even Ted will come out with blood red patriot rhetoric of their own which seems in perfect alignment with what we know to be true, and it makes our side ooh and ahh and cheer.

Those are the lies.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2022 04:14 PM (9AWuc)

312 >>> I would trust someone with that experience more than someone whose entire adult life has been spent in political jobs and resume building.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 07, 2022 04:05 PM (wmDcS)
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Politician - Mitt Romney, McCain, McConnell, McCarthy, All of the Bushes, Louie Gohmert splitting the vote in TX, the Cheney's

Posted by: Braenyard at January 07, 2022 04:14 PM (UmCFK)

313 What exactly did Palin do to hurt her political career?

Trust John McCain?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2022 04:13 PM (ESjRY)
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And Nicole Wallace.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2022 04:14 PM (XHhHI)

314 What exactly did Palin do to hurt her political career?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 07, 2022 04:12 PM

Trust McCain.

Posted by: Chuck C at January 07, 2022 04:14 PM (EughT)

315 damn, mannix, you got to love a good thigh gap bridge

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 07, 2022 04:14 PM (ZZK0E)

316 It would be a bit hard for Cruz to go into the jail cells of the J6 political prisoners and advocate for them after he just called them terrorists.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 07, 2022 04:11 PM (sVtYq)

Well, it would be harder to do it and come back from visiting them and not advocate for them, especially with his Dad's experiences in Castro's cells.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2022 04:14 PM (ZMraq)

317 ---
And Nicole Wallace.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2022 04:14 PM (XHhHI)

That bitch

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2022 04:14 PM (TdaKq)

318 Jan 6 will be like any federal holiday for now on to the Leftists, if they stay in power longer than 2024 I could see them making a federal holiday out of it.

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2022 04:15 PM (2JoB8)

319 All I ask for a senator is to vote the right way when it matters.

Here's the thing. If he'd said something stupid about, say, rebuilding bridges on a highway or our relationship with Botswana, I could shrug at it like you do.

But this is an extremely critical issue that Ted seems to not grasp at all, which draws into question his entire worldview and comprehension of events.

The Democrats are trying to turn this into a way to shut down all dissent and worse, turn any non-Democrat into a monster that must be stopped. This goes to the very core of our nation's future. This is NOT a place to stumble.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 07, 2022 04:15 PM (KZzsI)

320 Ted's comments were not helpful and he destroyed his chances. Better now than halfway into the primaries. One less creature for Trump/DeSantis to beat.

FWIW - I waded into leftist twitter when I saw an article about Kinzinger forming a 2024 PAC. These people - hundreds of them - were worried because they think he will give the Dem candidate a strong run for their money. They legit think (1) he could ever win and (2) that he represents more than 18 repubicans.

These people are mentally deficient, to put it nicely.

Posted by: Eli Cash at January 07, 2022 04:15 PM (SScvq)

321 What exactly did Palin do to hurt her political career?

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be a republican. a republican that made soyboi's nubbie wiggle

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 07, 2022 04:15 PM (ZZK0E)

322 Is the big Jan 6 Remembrance over now, or is it like the 12 days of Christmas?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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This going to last longer than John "crash" McCain's GD funeral.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 07, 2022 04:14 PM (iDcra)
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The Greek choir is just warming up.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2022 04:15 PM (XHhHI)

323 283 My point is we tend to elevate "BUSINESS OWNER" to some grand pedestal.

why? they pay taxes. that's more than any government employee does.
Posted by: x at January 07, 2022 04:11 PM (oA+QO)

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If the business makes a profit, sure they pay taxes. Most businesses fail, which means they never or rarely make profits. This was my fucking point. Stop elevating them. They're just normal people. Nothing magical about a business owner. Some do well some don't, some pay taxes, some don't. Anyone can start a business and be a business owner in 5 minutes.

And you really think govt employees don't pay taxes? Come on.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 04:15 PM (OalnH)

324 SIG P365X PST 9MM 12R XRAY; $452 + s/h (email for this price); https://bit.ly/3JQvQdL

Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2022 04:16 PM (YYlyE)

325 Ugh, slack channel at work is full of gofundme links for employees of our funding agency that lost houses in the Superior, Louisville fires. I guess its a tell of how much I've grown to dislike this state that I don't even want to see those links. I will donate some more to Sam. Purse "to use where most needed", I gave them some dough right after the Kentucky tornados. But donate to individuals who I strongly suspect are Bidenites. The thought makes me gag.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at January 07, 2022 04:16 PM (3cGpq)

326 Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 07, 2022 04:13 PM (YA914)

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Well said.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 07, 2022 04:16 PM (sVtYq)

327 What exactly did Palin do to hurt her political career?
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Fired up the core base of conservatives.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 07, 2022 04:16 PM (iDcra)

328 Cruz is no doubt a smart guy, but he strikes me as the sort who believes that he is a little smarter than he actually is.

Posted by: Weasel at January 07, 2022 04:16 PM (0IeYL)

329 Imagine Cruz in 1776.

Would he laud the patriots on Concord common or damn them as terrorists?

The answer seems pretty clear now. Hell, he'd likely damn the Boston Tea partiers as terrorists.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2022 04:16 PM (ESjRY)

330 What exactly did Palin do to hurt her political career?

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you may notice that the left has destroyed every republican of national prominence.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 07, 2022 04:16 PM (ZZK0E)

331 Given that Ted can't even play conservative when he has to worry about reelection, how could anyone think it's a good idea to put him on the Supreme Court? Trump may have offered it, but Trump's greatest weakness was personnel selection. If the Left can put half-wits like the Wise Latina on the court, the Right can also put less than brilliant *actual loyalists* on the Bench instead of Harvardeers like the unreliable Ted or the traitorous Roberts.

Posted by: Craken at January 07, 2022 04:16 PM (Wlx6n)

332 Lawyers of Cruz's caliber do not make poor word choices - or more specifically - wrong word choices. He knew exactly what he was saying, and meant it that way. The only thing he's sorry about was misreading the room.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 07, 2022 03:42 PM (wAnMi)

I don't think he misread anything. He spoke to please the people he was speaking for. And those people enjoy watching him walk it back because they think it's funny when he fools the rubes.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2022 04:16 PM (9AWuc)

333 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 07, 2022 04:15 PM (KZzsI)

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Fair enough. I get the argument, I'm just not quite willing to burn him at the stake, yet.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 04:16 PM (OalnH)

334 Fuck Cruz, and fuck the whole R caucus in the Senate and just about all of them in the House.

Uniparty.

O/T, but how many boys and girls on the White House staff are principally engaged in editing headlines? Telling the reporters "hey, go back and revise that, here is what you are to say."

Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 07, 2022 04:16 PM (KiBMU)

335 So, given all of that, Cruz cannot be given a pass, even if he now ~~corrects~~ obfuscates the record.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 07, 2022 03:54 PM (5pTK/)

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2022 04:16 PM (2Padd)

336 It's so ironic...no, I meant "typical", that another traitor like Carlson would be used to rehabilitate Cruz after he called all the J6 protestors "violent terrorists" by virtue of their physical pressence near the Capitol Building.

I hope he chokes on Tucker's schlong and dies from asphyxiation and Tucker's wife walks in on them.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at January 07, 2022 04:17 PM (AupN4)

337 What exactly did Palin do to hurt her political career?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 07, 2022 04:12 PM

Trust McCain.

Posted by: Chuck C at January 07, 2022 04:14 PM (EughT)

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Including endorsing him in the 2010 AZ Republican primary.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at January 07, 2022 04:17 PM (TNyrE)

338 It would be a bit hard for Cruz to go into the jail cells of the J6 political prisoners and advocate for them after he just called them terrorists.

Posted by: Lady in Black

Needs repeating. Words matter and Cruz condemned already condemned ALL the protesters/prisoners for no reason.

Posted by: old chick at January 07, 2022 04:17 PM (sOete)

339 >>>This is why we never fucking win in the long run.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 04:05 PM (OalnH)
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On the money.
If a Dem screws up they circle the wagons and make it right. The Pubbies are happy to see him step in it.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 07, 2022 04:17 PM (UmCFK)

340 I've been saying this as well and asking here... WHAT SPECIFICALLY would you have Ted Cruz do?
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1) not lump conservatives in with FBI-sponsored brownshirts
2) read a single actual conservative blog daily
3) visit the political prisoners he thinks are terrorists
4) use the Speech and Debate clause to actual effect against the dems, "it worked, didn't it?"
5) sponsor actual conservatives at the state level
6) attend the Trump rall, in the crowd, not on the stage

Posted by: Well at January 07, 2022 04:17 PM (Ab/Or)

341 Has Cruz ever balanced his unequivocal condemnation of the so-called "terrorism" with unequivocal concern for the January 6 prisoners?

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 07, 2022 04:17 PM (H8QX8)

342 Trump was never EVER going to put Cruz on the Supreme Court. For one because there were just way too many clips of him calling him Lyin' Ted.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2022 04:17 PM (9AWuc)

343 A Senator that votes the right way but can say anything otherwise is how we got the 17th Amendment. Senators should represent their states. What Cruz did was a betrayal to Texas. You don't come back from that and fuck politics.

Posted by: Indignatio Vindicatorem at January 07, 2022 04:17 PM (oWBc3)

344 Those are the lies.

Its not a lie if one of your staffers believe it!

Posted by: Lying Ted at January 07, 2022 04:18 PM (ESjRY)

345 334 Fuck Cruz, and fuck the whole R caucus in the Senate and just about all of them in the House.

Uniparty.

O/T, but how many boys and girls on the White House staff are principally engaged in editing headlines? Telling the reporters "hey, go back and revise that, here is what you are to say."
Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 07, 2022 04:16 PM (KiBMU)
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I noticed the WSJ online headlines might have changed since this morning.

Posted by: WisRich at January 07, 2022 04:18 PM (G0vdT)

346 sure, the left has gone full anti-police and wants to defund them because they randomly murder people but Cruz somehow finds the one way to be wrong on this issue

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 07, 2022 04:18 PM (ZZK0E)

347 Someone with "Skillz" should do a video mash up with Pictures of the Civil War, then the Jan. 6th protest. Then Pearl Harbor film, and footage of the Jan. 6th protest. Then 9/11 and the towers, then footage of Buffalo Head dude with his feet on the desk. OH the Humanity. All synced with the Throatios and XiDen speech of Jan. 6th. It could go viral like Omicron...

Posted by: Paladin at January 07, 2022 04:18 PM (CE4w9)

348 The other thing that pisses me off about Cruz is he did not even do basic work to see the feds were deeply involved. If he would have said the deadly terrorist attack perpetrated and encouraged by our FBI etc etc

Then, ok but did not do that.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 07, 2022 04:18 PM (YXhrd)

349 221 MTG to release her approved candidate list soon.

MTG list > Trump list?

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 07, 2022 04:02 PM (GYllL)

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She knows what's needed in the House, so yes.

Bigger question, did McCarthy even get wind of it?
Posted by: Curly Shuffle

I hope not. It should be a like a 2x4 to the head to that worthless cocksucker.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 07, 2022 04:18 PM (GYllL)

350 That sucks huerfano. Where are you, urban, rural?

Posted by: f'd at January 07, 2022 04:18 PM (vrz2I)

351 That sure felt like the definition of is

Posted by: Welcome to Wokistan Mutherf*ckers at January 07, 2022 04:18 PM (P3+xU)

352 > They say vandalism isn't violence--so fucking PARADING IS??!

Aren't they using a very old and probably un-constitutional anti-Klan law as the basis for this parading charge?

Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2022 04:19 PM (YYlyE)

353 yeah, we need a slew of MTG's. Folks that get it.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 07, 2022 04:19 PM (ZZK0E)

354 It takes 1000000000000 atta boys to fix 1 ahh shizzle, Ted.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2022 04:19 PM (FXYsU)

355 Further evidence of what a Harvard degree is worth.
Also, this guy spends way too much time on twitter for his own good.

Posted by: J. Burns at January 07, 2022 04:19 PM (mTjz5)

356 you may notice that the left has destroyed every republican of national prominence.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 07, 2022 04:16 PM (ZZK0E)

We just need to find someone more respectable than Palin and Trump.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2022 04:19 PM (9AWuc)

357 Welp, I guess Ted won't be POTUS anytime soon. Maybe that's just as well.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 07, 2022 04:19 PM (wtvvX)

358 Posted by: Well at January 07, 2022 04:17 PM (Ab/Or)
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I'ma slow clap you out on this one, homey.

Totally disconnected. From us.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at January 07, 2022 04:19 PM (AupN4)

359 Cruz can't correct the record but he can correct his mistake.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 07, 2022 04:19 PM (UmCFK)

360 If a Dem screws up they circle the wagons and make it right.

Dude.

They're following Sinema into bathrooms and screaming at her.

We have the cuckservatives precisely because we don't pressure our candidates. We hold our nose and vote R.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 07, 2022 04:19 PM (YA914)

361 It would be a bit hard for Cruz to go into the jail cells of the J6 political prisoners and advocate for them after he just called them terrorists.

Posted by: Lady in Black

Needs repeating. Words matter and Cruz condemned already condemned ALL the protesters/prisoners for no reason.

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I think his words give him a way out on this to still do the support suggested by LIB. Kurt Schlichter suggested the same course of action for him. If I was advising Cruz, I would tell him to find an abused Texan and start there. Defend that Texan and get into more and more.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at January 07, 2022 04:19 PM (sX1BW)

362 ...if Kamala can do it, Ted can, too...
Posted by: Nova local at January 07, 2022 04:08 PM

Let's not go too far here.

Posted by: Willie Brown (D-CA) at January 07, 2022 04:20 PM (a3Q+t)

363 Posted by: ... at January 07, 2022 04:17 PM (9AWuc)

Nah. Everyone knows Trump style by the time Cruz was being floated. It was all full court press during the primary afterwards it was back to normal. Which is partly why Trump did not go full scorched earth.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 07, 2022 04:20 PM (YXhrd)

364 Again, Cruz has had a year to catch up with the rest of us when it comes to Jan 6.

The FBI and BLM were definitely involved in what happened.

Show me where Cruz has called for and hounded the Senate to investigate the FBI and BLM role in Jan 6. Show me where Cruz has been involved in decrying government excess toward the Jan 6 political prisoners.

People can talk all they want about the here and now with Cruz, but, this is not a hear and now issue. This goes back a year and, on the anniversary of BLM and the FBI suckering a bunch of people into the House, Cruz comes out and talks about a terrorist insurrection. I find Cruz attitude to be unconscionable.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 07, 2022 04:20 PM (5pTK/)

365 And you really think govt employees don't pay taxes? Come on.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 04:15 PM (OalnH)
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Of course they don't. They're net consumers of taxes.

If they're paid $50,000, and pay $5000 in taxes, basically they were just paid $45,000. If you give me $20, and I give you back $5, did I just pay you? Of course not.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2022 04:20 PM (2Padd)

366 If MTG was a Democrat, with her views reversed, she would be one of the most powerful Democrats in the Dem house wouldn't she?

Forget Trump as Speaker, let's give the one who is trying to do stuff right now a chance...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2022 04:20 PM (ESjRY)

367 Sotomayor should be impeached for knowing jack shit about things she is deciding on.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 07, 2022 04:20 PM (UuD2k)

368 On the money.
If a Dem screws up they circle the wagons and make it right. The Pubbies are happy to see him step in it.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 07, 2022 04:17 PM (UmCFK)

You're half right. Dems do circle the wagons, but it's the dem politicians who will go to bat for any miscreant they believe may be useful.

Can you imagine a dem using any of Cruz's language to define antifa? They were funding them!

But no, reps are the jerks for being upset that a supposed party leader adopts the same language the left uses against the right (but never against the left).

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 07, 2022 04:20 PM (KbCG3)

369 MTG list > Trump list?
Posted by: Capital Eff at January 07, 2022 04:02 PM (GYllL)

MTG, especially if the list has lingerie and negligees

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 07, 2022 04:20 PM (8D42x)

370 I'll give him a pass on this one.
He's been a solid teammate. I'd have to see a lot more evidence of the sellout before I dismiss all his good history.

Posted by: Bomber Bowl at January 07, 2022 04:21 PM (DiE0p)

371 Wait, some hussy it trying to screw around with MY CONGRESS?!?

Where does she get off?!?!

FRANK, FRANK I NEED YOU NOW!

Posted by: Kevin McCarthy at January 07, 2022 04:21 PM (ESjRY)

372 Yeah in addition to visiting the people being held captive for the January 6th rally, he should advocate for them and further should be filing lawsuits against every single Biden overreach. He has a great opportunity to be The Man who takes it to the leftists and instead sits safe in his sinecure pulling the lever when a vote comes up and going out to say idiotic crap like this every so often.

Dude should have learned when he went to the Pro-Illegal Immigrant rally with Beck and got seriously challenged by that douchebag in Texas, but apparently it did not sink in.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 07, 2022 04:21 PM (KZzsI)

373 Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2022 04:20 PM (ESjRY)

You are correct.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 07, 2022 04:21 PM (YXhrd)

374 We just need to find someone more respectable than Palin and Trump.
Posted by: ... at January 07, 2022 04:19 PM (9AWuc)
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We could run Jesus Christ and the left would find a way to attack Him. "He's out of the mainstream!"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2022 04:22 PM (2Padd)

375 It's sad wall-to-wall counseling has fallen from favor.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 07, 2022 04:22 PM (a3Q+t)

376 And the commie insurgent ad opus, go fuck yourself

Posted by: Indignatio Vindicatorem at January 07, 2022 04:22 PM (oWBc3)

377 Sotomayor should be impeached for knowing jack shit about things she is deciding on.

Yeah if I were a Republican firebrand in the house I would file tomorrow on this. She is plainly incompetent and unfit for the job.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 07, 2022 04:22 PM (KZzsI)

378 And you really think govt employees don't pay taxes? Come on.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant

what do they pay taxes with? your tax money. it's not the same at all.

Posted by: x at January 07, 2022 04:22 PM (oA+QO)

379 I want GOP leaders who reject & call out the DNC narrative, not advance it. I want leaders who step outside of and point out the DC bubble. Who points out that the rules are stupid and that Democrats make the rules.
That's what Trump did. Any GOP leader who can't do that is just playing the Democrats game and advancing their causes.

The only way to win is not to play.

Posted by: 29Victor at January 07, 2022 04:22 PM (BJKQV)

380 Not sure why we need a multi-day tantrum about the word choice of Ted Cruz when there's an easy 40+ squisher GOP senators

We expect it from them. Deep down inside we thought teddy was different. It stings a little harder to have reality confirmed.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 07, 2022 04:23 PM (JRipD)

381 Sotomayor on OSHA authority over vaccine mandates: "Why is a human spewing a virus not like a machine spewing sparks?"

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 07, 2022 04:23 PM (UuD2k)

382 Cruz was and will always be in the Bush camp. Why did he hire bailed out banker Neil Bush as his financial advisor? After that was when he got all the ground support from all the Bush connections. He should stay a senator and that's all.

Posted by: ryukyu at January 07, 2022 04:23 PM (4n6fw)

383 We could run Jesus Christ and the left would find a way to attack Him. "He's out of the mainstream!"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2022 04:22 PM (2Padd)

Similarly, the Dems could run 'Stan, and the yellow dogs would vote for him, because "at least he's not Trump."

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 07, 2022 04:23 PM (PiwSw)

384 We just need to find someone more respectable than Palin and Trump.
Posted by: ... at January 07, 2022 04:19 PM (9AWuc)

You can't. You can't have Trumpism with someone "more respectable" than Palin or Trump, because such people are going to be sensitive to how the establishment perceives them, and will gravitate to the very establishment grifters and frauds and cowards who have made a mess of things so far.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 07, 2022 04:23 PM (wmDcS)

385 You know what would be irony?

If the first female President of the US was MTG after the new congress impeached Joe Bribem and Kamal Toe - and SHE had Hillary arrested.

That woman has ovaries of steel.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2022 04:23 PM (ESjRY)

386 370 I'll give him a pass on this one.
He's been a solid teammate. I'd have to see a lot more evidence of the sellout before I dismiss all his good history.

Posted by: Bomber Bowl at January 07, 2022 04:21 PM (DiE0p)

Politicians are not our friends or teammates. They're people with strong incentives to cheat and steal and the position to execute it. The right attitude to take is that things will be allowed to pass so long as they aren't against us, and nothing against us will get by without a thrashing.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 07, 2022 04:23 PM (z5Vrg)

387 MTG, especially if the list has lingerie and negligees
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 07, 2022 04:20 PM (8D42x)

You know the rule here....

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 07, 2022 04:23 PM (dfRN6)

388 Yeah if I were a Republican firebrand in the house I would file tomorrow on this. She is plainly incompetent and unfit for the job.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 07, 2022 04:22 PM (KZzsI)

Kagan and Breyer didn't exactly cover themselves in glory

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2022 04:23 PM (TdaKq)

389 Voters have been burned so many times by alleged conservative voices that we are extremely tender and touchy when it comes to being betrayed AGAIN. This is not the time to be playing games like this, Ted. Wise up.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 07, 2022 04:24 PM (KZzsI)

390 Faith, here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale; who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven. O, come in, equivocator. (Macbeth 3.2.9-12)

Posted by: Porter at January 07, 2022 04:24 PM (EughT)

391 Face it. Ted lost a debate (on one level).

Ted said that he usually calls people who attack cops "terrorists".

Tucker flat out said that somebody who attacks cops is not a terrorist. "They're just not," he concluded. He was adamant on that point and Cruz had to relent.

I think that is what Carlson holds against him the most. If that's his reasoning, it's lame. And why did he get into overstating the case.

One often intentionally overstates a case when we overstate it. It means that a will is driving it. The failure is normally because we are trying to press *our* point too hard. That's where the error is made.

Cruz was clearly *overstating* the case against the Jan-6ers...so why?

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2022 04:24 PM (XHhHI)

392 362 ...if Kamala can do it, Ted can, too...
Posted by: Nova local at January 07, 2022 04:08 PM

Let's not go too far here.
Posted by: Willie Brown (D-CA) at January 07, 2022 04:20 PM (a3Q+t)

Lets not forget that the only intelligent DNA that Kamala has was in her mouth. And she spit it out.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 07, 2022 04:24 PM (N39Ws)

393 FWIW - I waded into leftist twitter when I saw an article about Kinzinger forming a 2024 PAC. These people - hundreds of them - were worried because they think he will give the Dem candidate a strong run for their money. They legit think (1) he could ever win and (2) that he represents more than 18 repubicans.

These people are mentally deficient, to put it nicely.
Posted by: Eli Cash at January 07, 2022 04:15 PM (SScvq)

I'm skeptical. There's always a certain amount of "Don't throw me in the briar patch" talk when people are discussing the other party. No Dems are going to vote for people with an R by their name. And no conservatives would show up to vote for him in a general election. How does he win? They know that. But they also know if we nominate a guy like that, they've already won, no matter how the vote turns out. They just want to get people thinking, "They're afraid of Kinzinger. We should nominate him!"

Posted by: Wally at January 07, 2022 04:24 PM (FJYfm)

394 We just need to find someone more respectable than Palin and Trump.

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they should've known better than to be made fun of on SNL

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 07, 2022 04:24 PM (ZZK0E)

395 7) hold actual townhalls, in Texas

provide a list of ten conservative bills he has written, with attached copies, and will introduce when the Rs take the Senate
9) list 1,000 Democrats he will never vote to confirm as a presidential nominees
10) list 100 Republicans he thinks should be appointed in the next Republican administration

I could keep going. But you can see the point. There's what he could do and what he is doing. All those require he act as a conservative, not just talk like one

Posted by: Well at January 07, 2022 04:24 PM (Ab/Or)

396 Can't a fully vaxxed person spew viruses too?

Posted by: f'd at January 07, 2022 04:24 PM (vrz2I)

397 In my view we don't give elected Republicans enough shit. There may be a handful that don't deserve being taken to task, the rest of them are either useless or harmful.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 07, 2022 04:24 PM (4thlk)

398 Voters have been burned so many times by alleged conservative voices that we are extremely tender and touchy when it comes to being betrayed AGAIN. This is not the time to be playing games like this, Ted. Wise up.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 07, 2022 04:24 PM (KZzsI)
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yup.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 07, 2022 04:24 PM (5pTK/)

399 Sotomayor on OSHA authority over vaccine mandates: "Why is a human spewing a virus not like a machine spewing sparks?"

So by that logic human beings could only work together wearing full Haz Mat suits all the time they were in the office.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2022 04:24 PM (ESjRY)

400 359 Cruz can't correct the record but he can correct his mistake.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 07, 2022 04:19 PM (UmCFK)
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No, he can't. He just screwed the big furry canine. He's spinning like mad, but he let the mask slip. Move over Kristi Noem and Nikki Haley, Ted's joining in political seppuku.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2022 04:24 PM (2Padd)

401 What exactly did Palin do to hurt her political career?

Failed to send me the nudie shots I requested 367 times! And those Secret Service guys were downright rude!

Posted by: Dirty Frank at January 07, 2022 04:25 PM (vzKmu)

402 Voters have been burned so many times by alleged conservative voices that we are extremely tender and touchy when it comes to being betrayed AGAIN. This is not the time to be playing games like this, Ted. Wise up.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 07, 2022 04:24 PM (KZzsI)

Ted hates your fucking guts. There is no wising up to do other than to successfully rope people in again.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2022 04:25 PM (9AWuc)

403 They are shocked at what conservatives say because they use what the left defines conservatives as and who the point as examples.

They never read anything by the actual conservatives only those that they've heard or been told are conservatives.

I'd bet that Cruz thinks that Jonah and Bill are conservatives. Though they don't even work for conservative outlets anymore.

Posted by: jakee308 at January 07, 2022 04:25 PM (n08+I)

404
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2022 04:22 PM (2Padd)

He is too old to run!

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 07, 2022 04:25 PM (YXhrd)

405 > He's been a solid teammate. I'd have to see a lot more evidence of the sellout before I dismiss all his good history.

We've been dorked in the squeakhole so many times, we're jumpy and don't want any more McCains or Bushes or Cheneys.

Just look at Kavanaugh and ACB. You'd at least think the hell the left put them through would put some damn fire in their belly once they were safely seated. Nope. Gutless, miserable wretches they are.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2022 04:25 PM (YYlyE)

406 396 Can't a fully vaxxed person spew viruses too?
Posted by: f'd at January 07, 2022 04:24 PM (vrz2I)

Yes

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2022 04:25 PM (TdaKq)

407 398 Voters have been burned so many times by alleged conservative voices that we are extremely tender and touchy when it comes to being betrayed AGAIN. This is not the time to be playing games like this, Ted. Wise up.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 07, 2022 04:24 PM (KZzsI)
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yup.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 07, 2022 04:24 PM (5pTK/)

Seconded

Posted by: 29Victor at January 07, 2022 04:25 PM (BJKQV)

408 Sotomayor on OSHA authority over vaccine mandates: "Why is a human spewing a virus not like a machine spewing sparks?"
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Or a fat hack spewing bullshit?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2022 04:25 PM (2Padd)

409 it's our fault that every GOP presidential nominee since Grover Cleveland has been worse than hitler. I mean, according to the democrat socialists.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 07, 2022 04:25 PM (ZZK0E)

410 News Flash: Lying Legislators Still Lying. Joe Biden Says, "It's What They Do."

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 07, 2022 04:25 PM (r0ADi)

411 It's all my fucking fault for walking around spewing viruses.

Posted by: f'd at January 07, 2022 04:26 PM (vrz2I)

412 Cruz is trying to figure out which way the wind is going to blow so he can keep and increase his power. He doesn't care about anything else.

Posted by: M2TU at January 07, 2022 04:26 PM (zjRSP)

413 you got to wonder, who did batshit insane lefties compare republicans to before hilt3r? They probably were calling Grant the next Jefferson Davis.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 07, 2022 04:26 PM (ZZK0E)

414 Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2022 04:24 PM (2Padd)

Hard to argue.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 07, 2022 04:26 PM (YXhrd)

415 It is to laugh. The old saw is that a conservative is a liberal who was mugged by reality. Well, I'm a conservative who's been mugged by other conservatives since at least 2000, if not earlier. I don't owe these twats anything, let alone more patience and understanding.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 07, 2022 04:26 PM (QU5/8)

416 We could run Jesus Christ and the left would find a way to attack Him. "He's out of the mainstream!"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2022 04:22 PM (2Padd)

I laughed because the commenters here will burn people on the Right on the stake in a heartbeat.

Posted by: Just a side note at January 07, 2022 04:26 PM (mmU7u)

417 17 He did stick his foot in his mouth, I am mostly pissed he gave Marxists more ammunition.
Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2022 03:37 PM (2JoB

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Not only did he give more ammo to the other side, this sort of talk completely deflates those of us who disagree with the marxists. It takes us out of the battle before the battle even begins.

He is too good with words not to have known what he was doing.

Posted by: 496 at January 07, 2022 04:26 PM (VJsqe)

418 >Name 1 time Cruz voted in a way that upset you.

When I am run down on a desert road by Lord Humongous in a muscle car, I shall stump him with this question.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 07, 2022 04:26 PM (44ww/)

419 397 In my view we don't give elected Republicans enough shit. There may be a handful that don't deserve being taken to task, the rest of them are either useless or harmful.
Posted by: lowandslow at January 07, 2022 04:24 PM (4thlk)

Yes, the only redeeming quality for far too many R's is that they are not democrats. And that is not good enough. Not even close.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 07, 2022 04:26 PM (UuD2k)

420 we should bitch about Cruz because the dumbass thing he said shows a complete departure from what any nominal republican should say.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 07, 2022 04:27 PM (ZZK0E)

421 We've been dorked in the squeakhole so many times

You say that like it's a Bad Thing.

Posted by: Anne H., U.N. Goodwill Ambassador at January 07, 2022 04:27 PM (a3Q+t)

422 Kagan and Breyer didn't exactly cover themselves in glory

Yeah but their stupid seems to be more Covid Fear crap, she's genuinely unaware of how our system or the US constitution functions. She seems almost wholly ignorant of constitutional law.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 07, 2022 04:27 PM (KZzsI)

423 We expect it from them. Deep down inside we thought teddy was different. It stings a little harder to have reality confirmed.

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And this is the crux. I did think he was different. At least in comparison to the grifting, globalist pukes of the GOPe. I supported Ted Cruz in '16. I went to see him when he came to town. I believed in him. I thought he "got it." It does sting more.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 07, 2022 04:27 PM (sVtYq)

424 you got to wonder, who did batshit insane lefties compare republicans to before hilt3r?

They mainly demonized us for freeing slaves and granting women suffrage in those days.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 07, 2022 04:27 PM (YA914)

425 If MTG was a Democrat, with her views reversed, she would be one of the most powerful Democrats in the Dem house wouldn't she?

Forget Trump as Speaker, let's give the one who is trying to do stuff right now a chance...
Posted by: 18-1

i want to see her as speaker of the house. she would control committees with a fucking hammer and twats like the squad would be left out in the cold, useless

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 07, 2022 04:28 PM (IJES/)

426 Not only are we deplorable we are spewers too.
Deplorable spewers.

Posted by: f'd at January 07, 2022 04:28 PM (vrz2I)

427 Ted said that he usually calls people who attack cops "terrorists".

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2022 04:24 PM (XHhHI)

And doesn't that strike anyone else as the GOPeiest excuse imaginable?

Let's see - "Oh yeah these idiots back the blue, don't they... let's just say it's because I won't ever stand for anyone attacking cops and the United States of America!"

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2022 04:28 PM (9AWuc)

428 and by batshit insane lefties, I mean, of course, the moderate left.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 07, 2022 04:28 PM (ZZK0E)

429 Sotomayor on OSHA authority over vaccine mandates: "Why is a human spewing a virus not like a machine spewing sparks?"

Why is a human running on the Marx 3.0 codebase something we can't take back to the shop to reprogram to Trump 1.0?

Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2022 04:28 PM (YYlyE)

430 Sotomayor on OSHA authority over vaccine mandates: "Why is a human spewing a virus not like a machine spewing sparks?"
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 07, 2022 04:23 PM (UuD2k)
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Yes, you are just like a wholly-owned asset of your company that *may* be putting hazardous air out there--but NOT just *because* you're unvaxxed.

Machines don't spew harmful gasses simply because, in the exact condition, they could. A fully-maintained machine that *could* make hazardous air is not a danger simply because it *could* in disrepair spew them.

You have to *HAVE* Covid--and we have seen that the jabs to doodly-shit about Delta or Omicron.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2022 04:28 PM (XHhHI)

431 He introduced a bill today prohibiting the federal government from blocking sales of Monoclonal antibodies, to states.

Posted by: Braenyard

No offense, but putting forth a bill that you know will never get considered is not really action. It is something called Position Taking.

Want to show action, hold up a must pass bill such as debt limit or some other important bill by denying unanimous consent repeatedly in order to put your amendment in the bill.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2022 04:29 PM (dCGWj)

432 408 Sotomayor on OSHA authority over vaccine mandates: "Why is a human spewing a virus not like a machine spewing sparks?"
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Or a fat hack spewing bullshit?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2022 04:25 PM (2Padd)
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Did Sonya come up that analogy or her crack staff?

Posted by: WisRich at January 07, 2022 04:29 PM (G0vdT)

433 Sotomayor. another fattie who won't drop a few pounds and wants you to take a clot shot to keep her alive and gorging.

Posted by: x at January 07, 2022 04:29 PM (oA+QO)

434 430 Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2022 04:28 PM (XHhHI)

If OSHA can do CDC's job why do we have both?

Without CDC we would not have funded the Chinese making CUOMO19.

Posted by: sven at January 07, 2022 04:30 PM (Lzpvj)

435 Is the big Jan 6 Remembrance over now, or is it like the 12 days of Christmas?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 07, 2022 04:11 PM (a34Pz)

more of a mccain funeral type thing...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 07, 2022 04:30 PM (8D42x)

436 Deplorable spewers.
Posted by: f'd at January 07, 2022 04:28 PM

As a famous philosopher once said, "The shame is part of the kink."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 07, 2022 04:30 PM (a3Q+t)

437 425 If MTG was a Democrat, with her views reversed, she would be one of the most powerful Democrats in the Dem house wouldn't she?

Forget Trump as Speaker, let's give the one who is trying to do stuff right now a chance...
Posted by: 18-1

i want to see her as speaker of the house. she would control committees with a fucking hammer and twats like the squad would be left out in the cold, useless
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 07, 2022 04:28 PM (IJES/)

There's a sports adage about top prospects: "He is what they look like."

When it comes to conservatives: "MTG is what they look like."

Give me 200 MTGs and we'd have this place fixed in a damn hurry.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 07, 2022 04:30 PM (KbCG3)

438 Ted needs to get his ass visiting the political prisoners of 1/6.

Right damn now.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 07, 2022 04:30 PM (DcKNO)

439 We've been dorked in the squeakhole so many times, we're jumpy and don't want any more McCains or Bushes or Cheneys.

Exactly, and your point about the SCOTUS nominees: Yeah. I mean, Trump learned. Why can't they? Look at the insane crap they had to put up with, none of that sunk in???

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 07, 2022 04:30 PM (KZzsI)

440 I did think he was different. At least in comparison to the grifting, globalist pukes of the GOPe. I supported Ted Cruz in '16. I went to see him when he came to town. I believed in him. I thought he "got it." It does sting more.
Posted by: Lady in Black

MTG is my standard now for how a republican should behave. the rest of them are uniparty donks with an 'R'

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 07, 2022 04:31 PM (IJES/)

441 Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 07, 2022 04:28 PM (IJES/)

Which is why leadership will not stand with her. She will actually make them earn their ridiculous paycheck and insider trading benefits.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 07, 2022 04:31 PM (YXhrd)

442 the very establishment grifters and frauds and cowards who have made a mess of things so far.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile

Thank you. That was very well put.

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2022 04:31 PM (PPQdm)

443 nood liz cheny...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 07, 2022 04:31 PM (8D42x)

444 Give me 200 MTGs and we'd have this place fixed in a damn hurry.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 07, 2022 04:30 PM (KbCG3)

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Agree. 100%

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 07, 2022 04:31 PM (DcKNO)

445 We expect it from them. Deep down inside we thought teddy was different. It stings a little harder to have reality confirmed.

--

And this is the crux. I did think he was different. At least in comparison to the grifting, globalist pukes of the GOPe. I supported Ted Cruz in '16. I went to see him when he came to town. I believed in him. I thought he "got it." It does sting more.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 07, 2022 04:27 PM (sVtYq)

I know we get a lost in a sea of comments, but I've tried to warn everybody here about him repeatedly in the most explicit terms.

Took some stick for it too. In fact someone here is *to this minute* trying to convince me that Teddy is wonderful and I've got it all wrong. But all they could say to me is "you're wrong". That showed me.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2022 04:31 PM (9AWuc)

446 226 Name 1 time Cruz voted in a way that upset you. I don't know if you can. I can't think of any off the top of my head. I'm sure there's been some bullshit little stuff, but on the big things. Taxes? Guns? Immigration? SCOTUS nominees? Cruz has been a consistent vote for our side. But he said one stupid thing so he's the worst person in the world now.

This is why we never fucking win in the long run.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 07, 2022 04:05 PM (OalnH)

How does that joke go that has that punchline:

...but you [redacted] just one sheep, and they...

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 07, 2022 04:31 PM (cWyGz)

447 " Ted Cruz's presidential campaign on Tuesday picked up the support of a Bush.

Not Jeb, the former Florida governor and Cruz's former primary opponent, or George W , who has had a frosty relationship with the Texas senator

- but Neil, a younger brother of both. Neil Bush joined Cruz's fundraising team _CNN
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Sounds more anti-Trump than pro-Bush.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 07, 2022 04:32 PM (UmCFK)

448 nood liz cheny...
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 07, 2022 04:31 PM (8D42x)
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First nood Reid and now nood cheny?

Someone doesn't like us very much right now....

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 07, 2022 04:32 PM (5pTK/)

449 DC poisons the mind. Maybe we can come up with a system where the States can go their own way. I mean our States have economies and populations comparable with other countries, mostly.

Posted by: pawn at January 07, 2022 04:32 PM (kYVzH)

450 Incidentally, violence toward goverment officials is not terrorism, whether its to change political policy or not.

Terrorism is when you attack civilians to change political policy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 07, 2022 04:33 PM (KZzsI)

451 I'm seeing Ted stepping on his crank and then appearing on TuCa as an opportunity. Ted knew enough to attempt damage control, not successful IMO but savvy relative to the usual idiots we vote into office (see KY and China's pet McTurtle). TuCa mentions Ray Epps and at least Ted heard of him. The message from TuCa is do something about this knowledge. TuCa is giving Cruz another opportunity to pull his chestnuts out of the fire. I don't think Ted will be successful in getting smoking gun type info from the deep state, no-one is as long as there are enablers in the Repub party, but maybe he can do severe damage to the narrative in the attempt. Or not.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 07, 2022 04:33 PM (fs1hN)

452 "Do you know who Ray Epps is?" should become the challenge to Republicans. It needs to be as ubiquitous as "Let's Go Brandon."

Massie knows. MTG knows. Goetz knows. Boboert knows. Gomert knows.

We need to find out who else knows. It will be the new shiboleth.

Posted by: Minuteman at January 07, 2022 04:33 PM (LaNzR)

453 nood liz cheny...
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 07, 2022 04:31 PM (8D42x)
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First nood Reid and now nood cheny?

Someone doesn't like us very much right now....
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 07, 2022 04:32 PM (5pTK/)

at least it's not joy reid and liz cheny nood together...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 07, 2022 04:34 PM (8D42x)

454 And this is the crux. I did think he was different. At least in comparison to the grifting, globalist pukes of the GOPe.

Exactly, and generally he IS different but in the end he's still a politician and cannot be trusted. Same with "MTG" people. Eventually she will put the knife in.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 07, 2022 04:34 PM (KZzsI)

455 I've never met a OSHA dick who couldn't be bought off a trip to the titty bar and an open bar tab.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 07, 2022 04:35 PM (r0ADi)

456 408 Sotomayor on OSHA authority over vaccine mandates: "Why is a human spewing a virus not like a machine spewing sparks?"
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Because human beings have rights? You dumb Leftist cow.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 07, 2022 04:35 PM (H8QX8)

457 Gutless, miserable wretches they are.

Yeah, if I were Kavanaugh, I'd be devoting every day of the rest of my life to revenging myself on the bastards who put me through that.

But apparently not. Kavanaugh has lived in DC for the last quarter-century, and apparently cares more about what the Permanent Political Class thinks of him, than demonstrating that he has some balls.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 07, 2022 04:35 PM (I2/tG)

458 Sotomayor on OSHA authority over vaccine mandates: "Why is a human spewing a virus not like a machine spewing sparks?"

So the federal government should mandate flu vaccines, too?

Or mandate that every illegal alien that they drag across the border be fully vaccinated against EVERY disease that we currently vaccinate against?

Now do tuberculosis (better yet, call it "consumption", like they used to). No vaccines yet, but surely this Rhodes Scholar would agree that we don't need "those people" "spewing virus" on the rest of us. Why not a mandatory quarantine, Sonia?

And while we're at it, let's put all of those folks with AIDS in special camps, too. Don't need them "spewing virus" into unsuspecting people, either.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at January 07, 2022 04:35 PM (SRRAx)

459 And while we're at it, let's put all of those folks with AIDS in special camps, too. Don't need them "spewing virus" into unsuspecting people, either.

Frankly, the answer to all these Covidiots is "now do AIDS." Except the ones under 29, who don't even know what AIDS is.

"is that a spam app?"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 07, 2022 04:38 PM (KZzsI)

460 You Go Ted!

Posted by: Phuk Ho Le at January 07, 2022 04:41 PM (N7lli)

461 Name 1 time Cruz voted in a way that upset you.

I’m a big supporter of Cruz, or was, but he does it all the fucking time. Not that he votes for bad policies as some do, but that he’s very selective about when he votes for good policies. Every time I hear about how he’s introducing this or that great bill in this congress, I keep thinking, where the hell were you in the last congress?

He pisses me off for voting for good stuff mostly when it isn’t going to pass. When it comes time where Republicans are technically in power, he either doesn’t introduce these bills, or he introduces them in formats that are guaranteed not to pass, such as his self-defense rights omnibus a few years ago. Any one of them probably would have passed, but not all together.

Cruz has long been the best of a bad lot. His filibuster over the unaffordable care act forced Republicans to take a stand on it and imo accounted for much of their success in the next election. But he still has a lot of the habits of the GOPe.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 07, 2022 04:41 PM (CX3cf)

462 456 Posted by: Ordinary American at January 07, 2022 04:35 PM (H8QX

Tiu have privileges donde....

//Sweet Senora Sotomayer

Posted by: sven at January 07, 2022 04:44 PM (Lzpvj)

463 so the new keyboard and trackball will take some getting used to....

Posted by: sven at January 07, 2022 04:45 PM (Lzpvj)

464 Terrorist Ted Cruz

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at January 07, 2022 04:45 PM (AupN4)

465 461 Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 07, 2022 04:41 PM (CX3cf)

hard to believe that a Harvard Law trained clown has some clownish cultural affinity....

Posted by: sven at January 07, 2022 04:45 PM (Lzpvj)

466 Lets go TedCruz.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at January 07, 2022 04:46 PM (AupN4)

467 We just need to find someone more respectable than Palin and Trump.

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they should've known better than to be made fun of on SNL
Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 07, 2022 04:24 PM (ZZK0E)

Trump killed it on SNL.
Remember, they really didn't think he had a chance, and they were using him for ratings--just like Morning Joe and other shows did.

The hate came after he beat Their Golden Girl

Posted by: JoeF. at January 07, 2022 04:46 PM (mR6Gs)

468 But apparently not. Kavanaugh has lived in DC for the last quarter-century, and apparently cares more about what the Permanent Political Class thinks of him, than demonstrating that he has some balls.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 07, 2022 04:35 PM (I2/tG)

I hate to say it, but with Kavanaugh and ACB it's a Roman Catholic thing. Same with Roberts.

Now you could say, but what about Alito, and before him, Scalia ? They're Roman Catholics too.
But they are ITALIAN, and they know all about revenge

Posted by: JoeF. at January 07, 2022 04:50 PM (mR6Gs)

469 Why would a sentient being compare a virus and a machine shooting sparks?

Because it knows nothing about either. Wise something.

Posted by: klaftern at January 07, 2022 05:00 PM (taPSh)

470 The fact that Cruz has repeatedly used the "terrorist" line is ample proof he's lying in claiming he "misspoke." When Gov. Northam (D VA) got caught wearing blackface, he sold out completely to the far-left agenda to regain his standing with them. If Cruz really wants us to believe him, tomorrow he needs to be on the senate floor talking about Ray Epps, Ashley Babbit, and Roseanne Boyland. Afterwards he needs to lead a convoy to the DC jail to visit the J6 prisoners, and make a weekly habit of it.
Not holding my breath.

Posted by: anon at January 07, 2022 05:06 PM (QCdaU)

471 Nonetheless, the "misspoke" statement is in the congressional record.
His Tucker appearance will not be.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 07, 2022 05:12 PM (jTmQV)

472 I am a Texan from Houston. This is almost as democratic as Austin. Cruz has done almost nothing to help Texas in the border dispute with the feds. It is just photo ops to him. He let the mask slip. Princeton and Harvard and then jobs in the swamp. For God's sake LBJ was more a Texan than he is. Just another scumbag elitist. Tar and Feathers time.

Posted by: Richard O Ely at January 07, 2022 05:17 PM (Tgix9)

473 The question I wish Tucker had asked ole Ted is: Does he still think it's terrorism if the police attacked first? There seems to be some evidence that the police started lobbing stuff into the crowd unprovoked. If that proves to the case, wouldn't it be the police who are the terrorists?

Posted by: lymond at January 07, 2022 05:38 PM (Jvjtu)

474 It's even worse than Ace puts it. It's easy to forget that most DC Republicans actually read the NYT and WaPo and watch CNN, MSNBC, FoxNews etc. every day. It's hard to read that crap and not feel a need to at least meet those clowns partway.

Conservatives need to stop giving the Dems even a tiny morsel of compromise on rhetoric. J6 was a protest. Full stop. Just because a tiny fraction of the protesters got a little out of hand doesn't render that fact null and void. The Democrats never ever ever call their supporters terrorists, even when they've engaged in actual bombings (see, e.g., Bill Ayers, Oscar Lopez-Rivera, etc., etc.).

Posted by: Rusty Trawler at January 07, 2022 07:16 PM (1gif2)

475 I'm late to this party.
Attacking the police is never terrorism. Terrorism is attacking the public and/or its institutions in order to bring fear and terror to the populace. Otherwise quite a few of those Black Bros confronted and sometimes killed by cops have to be called terrorists - but then why did BLM march? Why did Obama malign the cops over Brown's shooting in Ferguson, Missouri? asn't Brown a terrorist by this definition?

Posted by: Ciampino at January 07, 2022 07:22 PM (qfLjt)

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