It’s a testament to what a topsy-turvy year this is that Ted Cruz — Ted Cruz! — did the most honorable thing I can recall any Republican having done in months.
Ted Cruz!
As a conservative who hasn’t drunk the Cruz Kool-Aid, it nearly pains me to say this. But Ted Cruz is now the most honorable Republican in America.
Everything that comes out of Cruz’s mouth seems calibrated only to maximize political advantage. When he showed up to the Senate, he gratuitously smeared Defense Secretary nominee (and veteran and fellow Republican) Chuck Hagel as having received money from Saudi Arabia and North Korea, setting the tone for the rest of Hagel’s tenure.
And who could forget the government shutdowns Cruz engineered over ObamaCare, at the expense of the Republican Party? Or his unprincipled and politically short-sighted brinkmanship over the national debt?
This is the man who smeared Middle Eastern Christians, some of the most helpless people in the world, as anti-Semites rather than be disliked by neocon blogs.
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