Chris Matthews: “Ted Cruz is the Unsmiling, Contemptuous Face of the Wild, Nasty Hard-Right.” By Noel Sheppard. NewsBusters, May 24, 2013. See also Breitbart, Townhall, Mr. Conservative, Washington Examiner, YouTube.
Ted Cruz Takes Center Stage, Media Increases Attacks. By Breeanne Howe. RedState, May 29, 2013.
Matthews:
Let me
finish tonight with this. Ted Cruz of Texas is a disaster, not least for the
Party that ran him for the Senate. He says he doesn't trust his fellow
Republicans. Neither, he said, does he trust Democrats. He’s putting himself on
the national stage as the enemy of compromise, of reasonable comity between the
Parties, of bipartisan agreement itself.
No,
Senator Cruz wants all out political war. He wants to bring down the budget,
forfeit any Congressional control on spending or taxation. He prefers a chaotic
order on Capitol Hill where he can stand in the middle of the legislative
traffic yelling stop, where he can derail any reasonable budget control in
order to bring attention to himself. He’s come to Washington to start fights,
to disrupt any chance of ending this dysfunction because dysfunction is what he
dearly hopes to someday challenge.
Pay
attention to Senator Cruz because he is the unsmiling, contemptuous face of the
wild, nasty, hard-right fringe of a Party that once competed with the Democrats
to be the country’s governing Party. All Cruz wants to do is prove that
self-government is evil or impossible or whatever else will justify his
existence as a hard-right political bomb thrower.
