angelatc
10-11-2013, 02:12 PM
Since the GOP is going to cave, here's a ray of sunshine - if we play our cards right, Ted Cruz will get the blame.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/ted-cruzs-debacle/
It would have been different if Cruz’s gamble had been over a minor issue that drew little attention, but the purpose of the gamble all along seems to have been to turn Cruz into a national figure and link his name to some of the most important issues available. It succeeded in making him better known (http://www.gallup.com/poll/165362/americans-down-leaders-shutdown-began.aspx), but in every other respect it has backfired badly. More important, Cruz didn’t just misread the political landscape and support a strategy that had zero chance of success, but he did so in a way that maximized intra-party divisions, burned bridges with most of his colleagues, and distinguished himself as a self-seeking bomb-thrower who ended up helping to blow up his party’s own standing
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/ted-cruzs-debacle/
It would have been different if Cruz’s gamble had been over a minor issue that drew little attention, but the purpose of the gamble all along seems to have been to turn Cruz into a national figure and link his name to some of the most important issues available. It succeeded in making him better known (http://www.gallup.com/poll/165362/americans-down-leaders-shutdown-began.aspx), but in every other respect it has backfired badly. More important, Cruz didn’t just misread the political landscape and support a strategy that had zero chance of success, but he did so in a way that maximized intra-party divisions, burned bridges with most of his colleagues, and distinguished himself as a self-seeking bomb-thrower who ended up helping to blow up his party’s own standing