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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCruz really has balls of steel and a brain of oatmeal
As you may have heard, after pissing off a sizable portion of the repub leadership in both the House and Senate, Cruz followed up by blocking the confirmation, via unanimous consent, of Tom Wheeler, President Obama's choice for new FCC Chairman. But Mr. Cruz, who may or may not have realized the impact of what he was doing, did not block only Wheeler's confirmation. By blocking Wheeler, he also blocked the confirmation of Michael O'Rielly to fill a repub vacancy on the FCC. (The reason is that the two nominations are paired and there is no way one gets confirmed without the other, since doing so would result in either a 2-2 split between repubs and Democrats on the FCC (something the Democrats won't permit) or a 3-1 Democratic advantage (something the repubs don't want).
What makes this a particularly ballsy or brain dead maneuver: Michael O'Rielly is a longtime republican Hill staffer who most recently served as a senior aide to none other than Mr. Cruz's fellow Texan, John Cornyn. Blocking a nomination that undoubtedly is strongly supported by the senior Senator from your own state (and is part of the repub leadership in the Senate) is a brave thing to do. Or a sign that your kookoo for cocoa puffs.
Nice move, bowels.
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)Even tho he has a lot of like-minded supporters in Texas and elsewhere, the money that put him in the Senate is too smart to keep him there. He's too crazy to be reliable and will lose his usefulness with his crazy maneuvers.
The money people are the epitome of greed, not insanity.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)DCBob
(24,689 posts)He simply just doesnt give a shit about what anyone thinks outside his little kingdom in Teabagger, Texas. That doesnt take balls.. just being an arrogant self-centered asshole is good enough.
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)How can Cruz be safe.
Maybe I am missing something.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)maybe he plans to come clean his last year in office.
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)He will do something stupid.
Cruz if full of himself.
He will cost the republicans more offices then he is worth.
I hate 6 year term of office.
That is more then the president.