President George W. Bush’s presidency began to unravel in the autumn of 2005, after the Hurricane Katrina disaster seemed to affirm much of what critics had said about the administration’s cronyism and inattention to domestic affairs. Likewise, President Barack Obama’s
In his unending quest to find reasons to call Republicans racist, Chris Matthews of MSNBC stumbled Monday night onto yet another example of GOP bigotry: Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), a Hispanic, returning to Texas and stating, “Gee, it’s great to
An associate professor of law at Santa Clara University, a Jesuit institution, resigned because he did not like the university’s decision to eliminate insurance coverage of elective abortion. Stephen F. Diamond, who taught at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics,
There is a lot of commentary in the press about who is responsible for the government shutdown and the near-miss with respect to extending the debt ceiling. The leading culprit is the Tea Party movement, a bunch of right-thinking Americans
The Mark Twain Prize, handed out each year in the Nation’s Capital, is generally a nonpartisan affair meant to toast the funniest people in pop culture, period. This year, both the honoree and a key presenter couldn’t resist the chance
Just prior to the president’s ObamaCare pep rally in the White House Rose Garden, Monday morning, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) released the following statement regarding Obamacare’s failure to live up to Obama’s many promises: Today President Obama will draw
On ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, hosted by Martha Raddatz, reporter Jonathan Karl interviewed Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), and proceeded to body-slam him for his involvement in the government shutdown debate. “People hated this shutdown, they hated this impasse
Appearing on ABC News’ This Week, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush ripped into Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) over the government shutdown, stating, “have a little bit of self-restraint. It might actually be a politically better approach to see the massive
On CNN’s “State Of The Union” Senator Ted Cruz did not hold back in criticizing Senator John McCain’s words during the shutdown
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria is a sanctimonious elitist and a plagiarist besides. Yet he still has a worldwide audience via Global Public Square. And so his rantings do merit comment from time to time, especially when they spread rabid anti-conservative propaganda
The Corrupt Bastards Club. They said it. I didn’t. In Alaska we had a group of politicos who chuckled as they dubbed themselves the “CBC,” which stands for “Corrupt Bastards Club.” But it was no laughing matter. I, and many
The Republican Party, Ari Fleischer said earlier this year, is one presidential election away from unity and success. I disagree–there is much work to be done before then, and not necessarily in Fleischer’s preferred fashion. However, since leadership is probably
Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist has emerged as the Republican establishment’s leading crusader and mouthpiece against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), repeatedly denigrating Cruz for fighting against Obamacare with a tactic that Norquist alleges hurt Republicans. Obamacare is wreaking
In politics, when you suffer a defeat, there are two ways to go. You can a) figure out how not to lose again or b) start the search for “traitors” in your own ranks. For Republicans, the choices, a) or
After weeks of being vilified by the national media and White House as a terrorist, racist, and radical hostage-taker out to destroy the economy, Ted Cruz (R-TX) is receiving the kind of death threats that are all-too expected after this
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) blasted Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for being a “laughingstock” and claimed Cruz did not know how to legislate. Reid told the Huffington Post that Cruz “proved he has a great fundraising operation” and then pointed out
On Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) slammed Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) strategy for defunding Obamacare that led to the government shutdown, saying it was a “tactical” error and “not a smart play.” McConnell made his comments to Politico. He
To fully understand the state of play in the Republican party, look no further than Sens. Mike Enzi (WY) and Pat Roberts (KS). Both are reliable, mainstream conservatives, yet neither have a record of seeking a fight or standing on
So says my friend Ed Morrissey, and he’s largely right. But it is worth pointing out why that strategy feels inadequate to many conservatives: we were told the same thing in 2012, when the candidate did not really run on
On Thursday, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) blasted Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for not being more like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), whom he praised effusively during the budget fight. He also predicted that Cruz and the Tea Party have
On Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) vowed not to let another government shutdown occur in order to repeal Obamacare even though Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) did not rule out that option in order to give Americans some relief
On Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blocked President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over whether he supports the Disclose Act. According to the Wall Street Journal, Cruz “placed a hold on the nomination of former
Conservative senator faults old guard for one-sided results of budget showdown. On Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) ripped establishment Republicans for going out of their way attacking and undermining the defunding Obamacare effort and ensuring that Senate and House Republicans
Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer: “I think the tea party and Ted Cruz have peaked. First, they have so alienated their colleagues, but second, the tactics of the tea party, ‘I’m gonna hurt a lot of innocent people unless I get
