Ted Cruz bullied Republicans for years. Now they’re standing up to him.

[Dexter]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-stand-up-to-ted-cruzs-bullying/2015/07/28/a48e2286-355d-11e5-adf6-7227f3b7b338_story.html

Who’s afraid of big, bad Ted Cruz? Not Lamar Alexander. The Tennessee Republican went on the Senate floor to accuse his fellow Republican of proposing actions that would “render ourselves lawless” and cause “chaos.” Alexander reminded the Texan that the Senate “requires restraint and goodwill.” Not John Cornyn. The senior senator from Texas said that Cruz’s prescription would be a “terrible mistake” and that if his fellow Texas Republican were making a valid point, “you would find other voices joining that of the junior senator, but I hear no one.”

And certainly not Orrin Hatch. The Utah Republican and Senate president pro tempore said on the Senate floor, in remarks prompted by Cruz, that “squabbling and sanctimony” won’t be tolerated. “The Senate floor has too often become a forum for partisan messaging,” the veteran legislator inveighed. “It has been misused as a tool to advance personal ambitions, a venue to promote political campaigns and even a vehicle to enhance fundraising efforts” — all of which Cruz has done. “Most egregiously, Mr. President, the Senate floor has even become a place where senators have singled out colleagues by name to attack them in personal terms.”

[libertybele]

I have two words on this.  Bull crap.   

[Dexter]

I have two words on this.  Bull crap.   

Care to elaborate? I'm not agreeing or disagreeing. I just saw this and was curious to know what the posters here thought of it.

[libertybele]

Cruz adhering to the principles of our Constitution is sadly seen as "far right" and those that want him to deviate from those principles and pander to the left are the bullies. Cruz is despised for being a Constitutionalist, and revealing the blatant corruption by what he terms the "Washington Cartel".  I wouldn't be at all surprised if there is an attempt to remove Cruz from office.

[Longiron]

Cruz adhering to the principles of our Constitution is sadly seen as "far right" and those that want him to deviate from those principles and pander to the left are the bullies. Cruz is despised for being a Constitutionalist, and revealing the blatant corruption by what he terms the "Washington Cartel".  I wouldn't be at all surprised if there is an attempt to remove Cruz from office.

You are exaxtly cprrect Liberty. Trying to argue with such a insame post is a waste of your time and it will never register. What will register is the Ignore button????

[GourmetDan]

 

"“It has been misused as a tool to advance personal ambitions, a venue to promote political campaigns and even a vehicle to enhance fundraising efforts” — all of which Cruz has done."

If the writer for the Post hadn't specifically named Ted Cruz, most people would assume that Hatch was talking about Dingy Harry.  I assume that's why Mr. Milbank felt it necessary to specifically name Cruz when Hatch didn't.

What Milbank is saying is that any Senator can lie about anything in the Senate and not be called on it.

"Hatch issued a stern reminder that chamber rules forbid senators from accusing their colleagues of "conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a senator."

Where was Hatch when Dingy Harry was lying about Romney?

[EdinVA]

One guy is bullying the entire senate?
If that is true, the we have 99 sissies in the senate... what a load of crap...

[bkepley]

Care to elaborate? I'm not agreeing or disagreeing. I just saw this and was curious to know what the posters here thought of it.

I think "bullying" is ridiculous.  If they feel bullied it's probably because they have a bad conscience.   

But that might have been the words of the Washington Post, not of Republicans tired of Cruz's antics.

[GourmetDan]

One guy is bullying the entire senate?

Note the use of the term 'bullying' which was surely intended to provoke a certain emotional response.

Perhaps he really suggesting that Cruz is a homophobe and the rest of the Senators are, shall we say, 'good friends of Lindsay Graham'...   

[andy58-in-nh]

Dana Milbank is a member of Washington's corps of hardcore, leftist Democrats partisans who write precisely what the DNC tells them to write, culminating in the production of an approved narrative.
 
Such can be demonstrated daily, by comparing the work of numerous shill/scribes, who all miraculously appear to use the same language, the same syntax, identical characterizations and assumptions, as well as a common inclusion and exclusion of facts.
 
They are of course, propagandists for the Ruling Class who masquerade as "journalists", while singing madrigals for the mendacious, and playing their lyres for the liars.

[Fishrrman]

EdinVa wrote:
[[ If that is true, the we have 99 sissies in the senate...]]

Your number is off by a few, but other than that, your statement above reflects reality.