Senator. There's nothing I like more than an egomaniacal asshole in the GOP who's willing to toss a grenade into the room and run off.

I sincerely hope this prick and his buddies Mike Lee and Jeff Sessions continue to poison the well that every one of them have to drink from.

his shit don't stink.

I hope not.

I read about this somewhere. Canadian law won't allow someone to renounce their citizenship until they can prove beyond any doubt they belong to another nation. His mother doesn't have the records to prove her as a natural American citizen in the Canadian law's eyes. Until that happens, Canada, by law, must refuse Cruz to renounce his citizenship. The Canadian law is based on the concern of preventing people from lacking any kind of citizenship, they don't want to see people wandering around belonging to no nation.

That doesn't mean exceptions aren't made for special cases. Then Senator Obama, worked on legislation that allowed Senator McCain to be a full, natural, American citizen because he has a more dubious (legally) claim to citizenship than Obama. Which, I find ironic that the Right attacks Obama on his citizenship often even after he made sure McCain could qualify for his run for President.

If during conversations about Senator Cruz the phrase "shallow grave" comes up more often than it would normally.

wish the gun references would go away in headlines considering we have so many gun deaths everyday.

I read it literally at first

I know and work with may Republicans, 90% of my coworkers and the industry I am in is conservative. (Fiscally conservative mind you, they aren't socially minded at all, they bow to one master, money.) There is a real "throw the bums out" vibe going on in the rank and file Republican land. They are being taken over by the teabagging, Ayn Randian, libertarians and they want to burn out the old guard. They'll do anything to accomplish this task. Even if they burn the party down and give super majorities in the House and Senate (unlikely this year, but possible next cycle) if it accomplishes the task of purifying the party.

The Republicans I talk to daily, genuinely believe this. They are convinced that the party isn't "conservative" enough and that McConnell, Boehner and the rest of the leadership are moderates. (I say "conservative" in quotes because none of them can, when I ask, define what "conservative" is.) They believe that if they can just get these barnacles off the ship they will have smooth sailing from then on out. They believe that if they can get to that point then America will wake up and realize they were right all along and Americans will take the "right hand of the market" and stride confidently to economic stability and growth.

They are unconcerned if the ship is smaller after the barnacle scraping, because they believe free hand of the markets will fix everything. When I point out that they risk becoming a regional party, they do not understand me. It is like I am speaking another language. There is a distant and vacant look in their eyes, its creepy.

We are watching the Republican party be taken over, again. My parents watched it as the conservatives fled the Democratic party to the Republicans. I watched it when the religious right rose in the 80s, and now in the 20-teens, the Libertarian party is taking over. I often wonder what Lincoln, Teddy and Ike would have to say about that.

when its required....." unless military enlistment is required, of course.

let the fighting continue