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By ALBERT R. HUNT | BLOOMBERG VIEW
Published: October 20, 2013
WASHINGTON In the aftermath of the U.S. government shutdown and a close call with default, there is a political consensus among Democrats, many Republicans, establishment conservatives, business leaders and the inside-the-Beltway commentariat: Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Tea Party members in the House have done grievous harm to themselves and their brand.
They caused economic and political wreckage and got nothing for it. The silver lining, critics say, is that these right-wingers may now be chastened, and Mr. Cruzs national ambitions have been dealt a lethal setback.
That, however, isnt the way Deedee Vaughters and Bob Vander Plaats see things.
Were winning this argument and now have to go back at Obamacare and getting our fiscal house in order, says Ms. Vaughters, a Tea Party activist in Aiken, South Carolina. Mr. Vander Plaats, who heads an influential family-values group in Iowa, agrees: Ted Cruz is a rock star sucking all the energy in the conservative movement. Hes making all the right enemies with the Republican establishment, which is taking him to unprecedented heights. The reaction of these grass-roots activists may undercut hopes of mainstream party leaders that the Cruz-led shutdown for which most Americans blamed Republicans would have a sobering effect on the right wing and avoid such mayhem in the future. Yet the showdown may have only whetted the appetite for more confrontation, starting with the budget and debt battles early next year and stretching through the 2014 midterm elections and the 2016 presidential contest.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/21/us/politics/tea-party-spoiling-for-a-bigger-fight.html?_r=0
dawg
(10,624 posts)DJ13
(23,671 posts)They got that right!
Gothmog
(145,646 posts)Please try this stunt again
Laelth
(32,017 posts)Sun Tzu: The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Napoleon: Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Laelth
Scuba
(53,475 posts)JHB
(37,163 posts)WinstonSmith4740
(3,059 posts)One of the all time greats...it was just on TCM yesterday. Next time you watch it, check out the Russian Ambassador when Strangelove gets going against his hand...he's barely holding it together.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)That's all I can remember..
SnowCritter
(810 posts)Shoot! Fellah could have a pretty nice weekend in Las Vegas!
(Or something like that)
pangaia
(24,324 posts)and Slim....
Mr.Bill
(24,334 posts)Proceed
TBF
(32,106 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)Beartracks
(12,821 posts)Specifically, the APPEARANCE of conflict equals ratings, which is why the MSM will manufacture conflict, or frame things in a conflict-driven narrative, when necessary -- and that's why they use the false-equivalency approach so much.
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arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Blue Owl
(50,523 posts)n/t