"Nearing" the point of no return? Grozik, I had no idea that Senator Cruz was such a sappy optimist:
Texas GOP Senator Ted Cruz is blasting the bipartisan budget deal that passed the Senate this week, saying the deal “went backwards” and would only worsen the nation’s spiraling debt.
The budget compromise that had been championed by GOP Representative Paul Ryan in the House passed the Senate by a 63 to 36 vote.
Speaking in an exclusive Newsmax Magazine interview, Cruz said Friday: “It’s a sad statement that the easiest way to get bipartisan agreement in Washington is to increase spending, debt, and taxes.
"Compromise" in the standard Beltway sense - Republican surrendering to Democrats (although not nearly as badly as they could have).
“That’s why the American people are so frustrated with career politicians in Washington in both parties, because they’re not listening to the American people and they’re not working to solve the enormous fiscal and economic challenges that we’re facing,” he added.
I wish he'd issue, or post on his senate website, a list of who he considers Republican "career politicians," just so we would know at whom he's chucking spitballs. I also would like somebody to ask him if he's planning on running for re-election in 2018, because if he's going to use the term "career politicians" - which is, in reality, an entirely innocuous term - as an epithet, he ought to logically not seek a second senate term, lest he become what he currently condemns.
But mostly, I wish he would acknowledge that it is the Democrat majority that is the problem, and what must be gotten rid of, and ripping his own co-partisans is a really poor way of going about that goal. At the very least, he should prioritize his enemies list so as to focus on the biggest problem first.
Cruz described himself as “profoundly optimistic” that the nation will eventually get its balance sheet back in order – but not thanks to Washington.
“The answer’s going to have to come from the American people,” he said. “It’s not going to come from Washington. It’s got to come from millions and millions of Americans across this country standing up, and holding elected officials accountable, telling elected officials of both parties, ‘Stop doing what you’ve been doing over and over again, it’s not working.’”
Wouldn't that be the same "millions and millions of Americans across this country" that keep electing and re-electing the "career politicians" Senator Cruz condemns? He acts as if elections don't matter and all that's necessary is to "stand up" and "fight" from a position of practical prostration. It even seems as if he's advocating a sort of right-wing direct democracy, something that I seem to remember the Founding Fathers strenuously warning against.
Honestly, it sounds to me as if Senator Cruz wants to keep things exactly as they are so he can have a permanent gig as a right-wing voice in the wilderness, endlessly and futilely railing against the "career politicians" he can, in reality, not do without. Either that or he's a worse strategist than even I imagined.
Meanwhile, in reality, we passed the point of no return over a year ago. And this is another large piece of evidence:
President Barack Obama on Friday defended his administration's decision to delay for some people the requirement to buy medical insurance under his healthcare law, explaining that the rollout of his signature domestic policy is a "messy process" — and admitting "we screwed it up."
If he were really going to be candid about this, he'd have said, "I screwed up by ever proposing ObamaCare in the first place". But leave that aside for now. In propaganda terms, what notion does that seeming admission of failure reinforce? That they meant well with the UCLA (Unaffordable Care-Less Act), that they're doing the best they can for the American people. But as its economic incentive structure is a day-glo obvious formula for deliberate sabotage and destruction of the private health insurance market so as to herd the poor, working, and middle class into Medicaid - de facto single payer - the only logical conclusion to be drawn is that the White House didn't "screw up," but is right on schedule to attain its endgame.
If that's the case - and I'm convinced it is - that's a level of 3-D chess prowess that even Spock would envy.
Pity Senator Cruz can't even figure out checkers.
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