Love him or hate him, Cruz rocked the
house . . . er, Senate. Long ago, Ted
Cruz earned the hatred of every elected Democrat in Washington. Now, he’s on
his way to doing the same with nearly every Republican. Soon, it will be almost
a clean sweep.
He is, to paraphrase Winston Churchill’s quip about
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, a bull who carries a china shop with
him. He had barely begun his 21-hour filibuster — or, to be strictly precise,
21-hour-long speech — when he compared his doubters to appeasers of Adolf
Hitler, and he ended it roughly a day later with a prickly exchange with Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid.
The Cruz eye-rollers had plenty of occasions to roll
their eyes — perhaps no senator has caused so many colleagues to mutter under
their breaths in his first eight months in the world’s greatest deliberative
body — but the conservative grass roots cheered. They are desperate for passion
and, above all, fight, and Cruz delivered them during his long hours holding
forth on C-SPAN2……To Read More….
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