Motus Mentis

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1. libertybelle says

   Since Donald Trump sucked all of the oxygen out of the GOP tent, the other 2016 GOP candidates have fallen by the wayside and are looking for ways to grab headlines – Cruz grandstanding speech further alienated him from the GOP establishment, while trying to revive support from the conservative base and Tea Party voters who want fiscal responsibility and honest government in Washington.

   The main theme, that Republicans govern just like the Democrats once they get into power, explains why the American people hold Congress in such contempt, but to win the GOP nomination, these candidates still need to deal with the power-brokers in the party. This attempt to take on Mitch McConnell might hurt him more than help him in the long run and at most he’ll grab a few headlines on procedural issues that most Americans don’t care about.

   Trump’s strength is being a Washington outsider, while on the left, Bernie Sanders left the Democratic Party reservation and is pretending he’s really an “Independent” ready to take on the Washington establishment. Two extreme circus acts imho. It will be very hard for the other GOP candidates to gain much traction while Donald Trump’s incendiary rhetoric fixates our attention, like an imminent train wreck about to happen – we can’t look away.

   Of course, the smartest woman in the world might steal a few headlines too, “if” her “deleted emails” start surfacing – dumped by foreign intelligence services, kind of like they’ve used the Snowden files and how they dumped that Victoria Nuland phone conversation insulting the EU:

   http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26080715

   Most assuredly several foreign intelligence services gathered all her email traffic and await the most opportune time to start using it.

   Posted July 24, 2015 at 10:36 pm | Permalink
2. Troy says

   I want a Trump v. Biden election. If we are going to live in a Banana Republic, at least I want a floor show.

   But can you imagine what would come out of their mouths during debates?

   Posted July 24, 2015 at 10:46 pm | Permalink
3. the one eyed man says

   Ted Cruz on July 17: “You know I recognize that folks in the press love to see Republican-on-Republican violence, and so you want me to say something bad about Donald Trump, or bad about John McCain or bad about anyone else, I’m not going to do it.”

   Ted Cruz on July 24: ““I cannot believe he would tell a flat-out lie, and I voted on those assurances that he made to each and every one of us. What we just saw today was an absolute demonstration that not only what he told every Republican senator, but what he told the press over and over and over again, was a simple lie.”

   Well, that didn’t take long.

   Cruz’s account of events was flatly contradicted by other Republican Senators, notably Orren Hatch.

   The reptilian Cruz has achieved the rarest of feats: he has forged bipartisan solidarity in the Senate. He is universally despised by both Democrats and Republicans.

   Cruz is ranked eighth among the Republican candidates, with 4%. With seven others ahead of him in the clown car, maybe he has a bad case of coulrophobia. I think it’s panic. In a contest where the winner will be the man who can hate on Obama and Hillary the most, who can out-hawk everyone else, and who can be the most retrograde candidate of all, he had to throw a Hail Mary pass to be noticed. The loudmouth self-promoting junior Senator from Texas, whose sole achievement as Senator was shutting down the government and blowing a $24 billion hole in the economy, hates to be ignored.

   Posted July 25, 2015 at 12:07 pm | Permalink
4. Troy says

   whose sole achievement as Senator was shutting down the government

   You say that like it is a bad thing.

   Posted July 25, 2015 at 6:50 pm | Permalink
5. Malcolm says

   I think Cruz had just had enough of Mitch McConnell’s duplicity, and his daily betrayal of the conservative principles he harrumphed about while seeking re-election. McConnell and Boehner both campaign as rock-ribbed conservatives, but legislate as business-as-usual, crony-capitalist, influence-peddling power brokers and shakedown artists. (Just as Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi operate.) This part of Cruz’s speech says it all. Republicans all over America are disgusted with their party, and with Congress generally, and these guys are why.

   Yes, Cruz is not one to shy away from the flamboyant gesture, but here he articulated a very real frustration, slowly building toward rage, that conservative Americans have with this venal Republican leadership. Messrs. Boehner and McConnell (and Orren Hatch, too) all came to power as fire-breathing conservative iconoclasts, and now care about nothing but their power and their position. They fear their own base more than they fear Democrats: if Democrats win the Senate, people like McConnell are only back in the minority — but if the base gets the upper hand, they are gone. They will do everything they can to crush Cruz, or anyone else who gets any traction with the Republican base by hewing to real conservative ideals.

   Hats off to Ted Cruz for this speech. If the Republican party is ever to become a genuine opposition party again, and is ever to represent bedrock conservative American principles again, people like McConnell and Boehner need to be shown the door.

   Posted July 26, 2015 at 1:40 pm | Permalink
6. JK says

   http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/27/why-does-the-republican-party-exist/

   Posted July 29, 2015 at 6:19 pm | Permalink