Too often we allow minutiae to overwhelm our attention, and we lose focus on the big picture.
Cruz is an ugly reminder we did it again.

Their sleight of hand is relentless. They have relied on distraction to confuse and misdirect. Cruz is a dangerous, almost malevolent force, but the worst of the corporate monsters is always hidden from view.

I've been a lurker for years. Get all my news from these threads now that I've totally shut out the MSM.

Good riddance

He may be a sideshow but he has an audience, and a lot of money propping him up. Cruz is just as dangerous as those who put him out front to dance.

Why would the monied class put their faith in such an unappealing individual? As a mental exercise, I've sometimes tried to envision what actions I would take if I were a sociopathic tycoon hellbent upon extracting every last penny's worth of value from the world. In my imagination, my minions would be much more 'palatable' to the public - never uttering the bullshit inflammatory rhetoric that has come to be associated with Carnival Cruz.

They follow people who tell them what to do.

but why would they limit their 'outreach' to only those susceptible to influence by an authoritarian? For everyone else, Carnival Cruz is a big turn-off.

they put out front to dance. Without someone like scruz they couldn't manuever behind the curtain as well.

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What I wonder is, hasn't experience taught them that they have nowhere to go but down? Does Cruz honestly STILL think that he's made himself presidential material?


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is that this joker had the power to block the President's nomination for Chairman of the FCC just this past week, all in the effort to force the FCC to hide the monied interests involved in the teaparty circus.

So although he may act like a side-show freak, he is also an elected official - more damaging than a Palin or a DeMint or a Rove or a Gingrich because he (and the rest of his ilk followers who were elected to Congress) has legislative power.

I probably should have saved Cruella for later in the day.

why doesn't someone bring that up

Republican of Arizona, rebuked Cruz for insinuating, without evidence, that Hagel may have collected speaking fees from North Korea. Some Democrats went so far as to liken Cruz, who is a newcomer to the Senate, to a darkly divisive predecessor, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, whose anti-Communist crusades devolved into infamous witch hunts. Senator Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, stopped short of invoking McCarthy’s name, but there was no mistaking her allusion when she talked about being reminded of “a different time and place, when you said, ‘I have here in my pocket a speech you made on such-and-such a date,’ and of course there was nothing in the pocket.”

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/02/ted-cruz-sees-red-not-crimson-at-harvard.html