Former Speaker Boehner Calls Cruz 'Lucifer in the Flesh'

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31. Some interesting things, here.

1) Ted Cruz has obviously been ostracized by the Senate, in less than four years.

The Senate--even Republicans, to some extent--plays by the rule of "comity," meaning that you get along with others and listen to minority dissent, or you get cock-blocked from ever doing anything important there. Republicans routinely violate the rules of comity en masse, but never outside of the herd, or they risk being blocked from ever having legislation passed, ever being invited to co-sign important (and politically rewarding) bills, and so on. For Senators to speak so poorly of Cruz, and to refuse to endorse him when a scumbag like Trump is winning, means Cruz has to be a dirtball like none other. A dirtball in the opinion of racist liars, insider traders, career politicians, serial infidellists, and paedophiles (recall that before Hastert, the Senate had its own pedophilia scandal, which was covered up). What in the hell does that mean?

2) House leadership, including Boehner, hates Ted Cruz.

Since John Boehner isn't a good or responsible person by any objective measure, it means Ted Cruz must have done something really shitty to Boehner, personally. The obvious answer is that Cruz must have been instrumental in kicking Boehner out of the Speaker's position, probably by using his alcoholism (and, presumably, other uninhibited behavior) against him.

3) NOBODY wants to talk about what, exactly, Ted Cruz has done.

This almost certainly means that Cruz crossed the line into using the excoriable personal behavior of Republican Members of Congress for his own personal gain. He also did it while maintaining a harem of at least five mistresses, which is the hallmark of a severely anti-social person and which is normally the first thing Congress would use against him (Remember Bob Livingston?). Normally, Congress has an array of ways to deal with loose cannon such as Cruz, and we already know he's hardly above reproach. But they're not touching him... yet.

From these things we have to conclude that Ted Cruz has a huge and highly damaging file on many or most of the Republican Members of Congress, and that he's already threatened to use it. Trump was willing to call Cruz out on his mistresses, but Congress won't touch it--probably because they're on the hook for something much worse, and by much worse I mean it's gotta be dead girls and live boys, insider trading on terror warnings, and other awful stuff like that.

For years now I've been arguing that the Republican Party is a criminal organization, already at the mercy of other criminals who are willing to threaten disclosure. I'm pretty sure now that Ted Cruz is one of those extortionists who is using something huge and unforgivable against the Republican Party at large.

Obviously, we need to find a way to maneuver Cruz into disclosing what that is.