in them he promised to take on Obama, who wants to put an end to drilling for oil and gas. Say what?? Texans sucked it up.

Not all Texans. Right on the cusp of turning blue, Dems need to focus on this state. What a coup it would be!

Literally worthless, as in do-nothing. Absolutely nothing.

but certainly Mr. Cruz is as rabid a teabagger as they come

What is it with Texas? The heat?

I just watched a "Frontline" show, "The Revisionists", focusing on a couple of delusional religious nuts recently trying to get Texas school textbooks changed - and they got some of what they wanted. I assume Cruz is down with that, the idea that "The Flintstones" was real, that the earth is only 6000 years old or so. There is indisputable scientific proof that's far from true but they poo poo that.

These types would have fit in well during the Dark Ages because that's where they really are.

The first discovery and boom was in the 20's and they haven't run out yet. The first big bust was the Great Depression, and that part of Texas suffered as much or more than anyone. FDR and WWII saved them. My husband grew up there during the prosperous 50's and 60's. He moved to Colorado the day after he graduated HS and never looked back.
Funny how the biggest bust since the 30's started under St. Reagan, importing all that "cheap OPEC oil" but then there were still plenty of "liberals" to blame. The basin is currently booming, but, even though that's happened under Obama, he is trying to shut them down, according to Ted Cruz and my in laws. They all prosper from the remains of millions of dinos from millions of years ago, but they don't believe in any of it. It's merely a "gift from God" put there by our beloved Savior, 2000 years ago. Dark Ages, indeed.
I honestly started to think there's something in the air and water affecting these people, but then there's our 85 year old Aunt in El Paso, as liberal as they come, so intelligence and reality do exist in Texas, but right now, the crazies have the floor.

Didn't he make a big deal about the little girl in the well?
And everyone ate it up.

Texas already wasn't doing so well. I first met my husband's family in 1986. The economy of the Permian Basin region was in the toilet and stayed there for a long time. It's booming now, thanks to that Muslim Communist facist Obama.

It's nuts like Cruz who are killing the Republican Party, which clearly needs to happen.

Myself, I'd rather that sensible Republicans (there must be some left) ejected these berserkers from their midst, but I don't see that happening. So a Whig-like crash is the best we can hope for, with some sane center-right party arising from the ashes.

It's going to be a bumpy ride.

I dont believe anyone wants a one party system. Sure it looks good but we need the balance of a two party system. As the Republcan Party dies, the Republicans come to our party bringing their ideology with them.

Is essential for the country to prosper. And I can't pretend that I have a plausible scenario worked out for how the GOP crashes and how the Grand New Party emerges.

Perhaps, as the 'Licans fragment, so will the Center-Left, eventually ending up with Radical Right (tiny), Sane R-O'-Center (medium), Sane L-O'-Center (medium), Progressive (smallish), and (just to stir things up) Greens (tiny).

Libertarians might make some noise but would be irrelevant, as would the 'Far Left' (basically three PolySci grads from Columbia in a basement in Toledo).

The virtue here is, rather than having to provide a program that covers every aspect of a nation's governmental needs, there's room for single- or handful-issue voters (Greens, mostly) whose elected representatives could pursue those goals without having to pretend to fix everything.

Also, the multiple parties — who are always going to be short of an absolute majority — would have to form coalitions to govern at all, which would have the effect of grinding down the sharp corners of extremism (almost entirely on the right, these days) that is crippling the system today.

Just a thought.

Starting a new progressive party will not succeed. This will be tough because at the national level the Democratic Party appears to be under the control of the conservatives. We must fight within the party but we can get help from outside the party in the form of progressive organizations like moveon, PCCC, PDA, etc. They did a lot to get Sen Warren, Rep Grayson, and other progressive elected.

Don't they just keep getting worse and worse?

Although I disagreed with her positions close to 100% of the time, she at least seemed somewhat reasonable and willing to compromise from time to time (kind of old school GOP).

Cruz, on the other hand, is a psychopathic nutcase moron who makes a mockery of his position as senator.

to make a name for himself as an ugly American.. and, he's got the oozing hate to do it.

That is how bad it has gotten here in the last few years. If she would have run against him in 2006 instead of 2010 she would have probably won.

She was painted as a RINO and Washington insider by Perry and she lost.

She ran against Perry in 2010, promising term limits for Texas governors.

(Edited to correct grammar)

because you just can't be looney enough

Why not a quote that shows his tea-soaked, bombastic, moronic nature?

After being sworn in, sure enough, he's been an obnoxious, teabagging asshole. Seems he's doing just what the people who voted for him wanted him to do.

Problem is, he's not just playing to his ignorant base anymore. Now he's also got to get along with the big boys in his exclusive club. I heard someone on one of the talking head shows say, "He can play to the cheap seats now -- but wait until he wants something."

From what little I know about Senate protocol, the more senior members of the club have their little ways of marginalizing other members who don't play nice with them and kiss their pampered asses at every opportunity. I have a feeling that L'il Ted is going to suffer some serious slapdowns soon enough if he doesn't put on some Chapstick and start kissing where it'll do some good.

If the Tea Party had been around during the revolutionary war, we'd still be under British rule. Really, if they had been around during the French Revolution, they'd think what the elite were doing back then was just fine and dandy.

(Well, I remember my parents going ballistic over him....) and this guy looks and sounds like him.
Mean bastard.

Or at least not so batshit.

Some of her positions were at least somewhat to the left of what is now the mainstream of the Republican Party and she wasn't nearly as corrupt as Gramm.

i know that's right