Showing posts with label Ted Cruz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ted Cruz. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Anatomy of a MAGA viral lie: Haitians eating cats

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Another late posting, written 9/27/24. "They're eating dogs," or something like that fell out of Trump's mouth in the deba...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

Cruz's splash at the GOP convention

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In a nutshell, Ted Cruz, the runner-up in the GOP primary, was slated to speak at the convention. The big question was would he or wouldn...
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Friday, April 29, 2016

Why other pols loathe Cruz

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I loved this article from the headline all the way through. It explains the very simple ways that Ted Cruz pretends he's a hero, when h...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Obviously untrue: Politician claims every word is true

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It's hilarious just reading the headline: Ted Cruz On McConnell Accusation: 'Every Word I Said Is True' I didn't read th...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

The unknown territory of a contested convention

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Supposedly the last contested convention was the 1976 GOP convention. I don't remember it, That means I have no compass for guessing wha...
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Thursday, February 25, 2016

Losing campaign manager announces formula to beat Trump

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Stuart Stevens, who didn't run a particularly good campaign for Mitt Romney, thinks he knows how to defeat Trump in the primaries. Fi...
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Sunday, January 31, 2016

Cruz lies about his tax plan

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This is no surprise. All politicians lie. Most of them lie a lot about budget issues. So, despite what Cruz' idiotic adoring fans think,...
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Saturday, January 23, 2016

He who must be defeated

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For some GOP/conservative voices, he who must be defeated is either 1) Donald Trump, or 2) Ted Cruz. National Review had an all anti-Trump...
Monday, January 18, 2016

Crazy GOP nominee now looks likely

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There's a theory that the GOP movers and shakers choose the nominee, and the primaries are kabuki or smoke signals within that process. ...
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Sunday, December 13, 2015

Questioning whether Ted Cruz is an extremist

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I've seen Ted Cruz labeled an extremist so many times , and that's generally my own impression, but I forgot to actually ask the que...
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Monday, October 12, 2015

Ted Cruz, he's my man!

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A commenter on Bloomberg who's occasionally sensible  linked to a website that compares your views to the candidates, and tells which o...
Thursday, July 2, 2015

Surviving the same-sex marriage decision

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As I wrote often, Rod Dreher , a religious/cultural blogger, regularly moaned about the growing support for same-sex marriage. His complaint...
Sunday, October 27, 2013

GOP stands up to the Tea Party Part 2

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So many thoughts. Not so many complete sentences. GOP standing up to Tea Party. Orrin Hatch blasts Heritage . Corporate backers stick with...
Sunday, October 6, 2013

Day6: Thin strands of hope...

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... but probably not. Perhaps Boehner shifted today toward a fiscal settlement rather than insisting on emasculating Obamacare. But on clos...
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Day2 roundup: GOP plan, maybe. Tea Party plan, no.

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So two days into the government shutdown, where are we? The GOP still seems to be scrambling around for a plan, but perhaps there are glimme...
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Friday, September 27, 2013

Short: But what is the alternative to...

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What are the alternatives to Obamacare? I ask this question regular. What would have been the alternatives to the stimulus or alternative co...
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Thursday, September 26, 2013

Roundup: Still no Tea Party Plan

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So the House surprised watchers by sending a hopeless funding bill to certain dismemberment in the Senate. The Senate even has a timetable f...
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Thursday, September 19, 2013

Short: Who's selling out whom in the GOP?

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I didn't notice last night, but there's a snafu going on in the GOP right now. It seems that after goading the GOP for months to def...
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Save the country--defund Obamacare

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This has been a mantra for conservatives for several years now: Obamacare will ruin the US. I won't repeat the nonsense of how Obamacare...
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Short: Will Republicans let other Republicans drive drunk?

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Will the more establishment Republican senators, like Coburn of Oklahoma, Cornyn of Texas, and of course Mitch McConnell, let the Tea Party ...
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