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The sudden surge of Third Way tactics to take down the draft of Elizabeth Warren for President [View all]
Please see(or not)~
Elizabeth Warren plays Ted Cruz role with House Democrats
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/237261-elizabeth-warren-plays-ted-cruz-card-in-house
Bipartisan breakthrough? Liberal Dems, Republicans cling to hope Warren will run for president
http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2015/03/31/liberal-dems-gop-cling-to-hope-warren-runs-for-president
BS attempt to manipulate & cause fear in Democrats.
The article below spells it out nicely~
One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other: Why Elizabeth Warren Is Not Ted Cruz
3/30/15
In which we learn that Elizabeth Warren and Ted Cruz are by no means the same
It is an interesting place in which Senator Professor Warren finds herself these days. If it's not progressive nuisances acting as though she's running for president, even though she's not, it's Republicans virtually daring timid Democrats to align with her so that they can then be defined by Republicans as radical redistributionists or some such nonsense. Naturally, the elite political press is above all this petty foolishness and trickery. It simply casts the whole business into the basic paradigm of Both Sides Do It, and it finds a template that does not require the messy business of actual analysis.
To wit: Elizabeth Warren Is—oh, excuse me, "plays the role of"—Ted Cruz.
One former Democratic staffer turned financial services lobbyist compared Warren's involvement in the House to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who frequently meets with House Republicans. "Elizabeth Warren is the mirror image of Ted Cruz, and if we aren't careful, she'll drive the Democrats into the same ditch Cruz is trying to drive the Republicans," the former Democratic staffer said.
This person is an idiot and should not be allowed to hold anyone's money, including their own. Is there an indication that Warren will shut down the government if she doesn't get her way on the TTP? (And that's leaving aside the self-evident fact that , as it turned out last fall, the Republicans ended up not at all in any kind of ditch.) Ted Cruz is an authentic extremist; his views on church-and-state are blatantly theocratic, and his notion of the federal union stopped evolving when the results came in from the presidential election of 1860. Elizabeth Warren's primary mission during her time in the Senate is the re-establishment of an economic order with which most people were happy from 1945 until the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. There's nothing radical about the Glass-Steagall Act. There's nothing extreme about supporting both Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid in their traditional forms. On the other hand, Ted Cruz has gone a long way toward mainstreaming crackpot notions that everyone thought dead and buried with the Goldwater campaign, if not the Confederate States of America.
Cruz's campaign deployed a brand of Glenn Beck-like Tentherism, warning, among other things, that the United Nations was plotting with George Soros to get the federal government to crack down on golf courses in the name of sustainability. He pledged, à la Ron Paul, to eliminate the departments of education, commerce, and energy, along with the TSA and the IRS. He floated ideas that were unorthodox by traditional GOP standards but pet issues among Federalist Society types, including the use of interstate compacts—an agreement between two or more states—to nullify the individual mandate that is the backbone of health care reform. His theory, drawing on Supreme Court precedent, is that once Congress green-lights such a compact, it will supersede whatever federal law is in place, acting as a backdoor veto.
Today, Warren announced that she would support Chuck Schumer to replace Harry Reid as Minority Leader of the Senate. Ted Cruz has dedicated his entire career—and seems poised to dedicate his entire presidential campaign—to telling Mitch McConnell and the rest of his party's leadership in the Congress to pound sand. Which of them is the radical again?
The comparison is stupid and wrong, but it is quintessential Washington political journalism....
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a34013/elizabeth-warren-ted-cruz/
3/30/15
In which we learn that Elizabeth Warren and Ted Cruz are by no means the same
It is an interesting place in which Senator Professor Warren finds herself these days. If it's not progressive nuisances acting as though she's running for president, even though she's not, it's Republicans virtually daring timid Democrats to align with her so that they can then be defined by Republicans as radical redistributionists or some such nonsense. Naturally, the elite political press is above all this petty foolishness and trickery. It simply casts the whole business into the basic paradigm of Both Sides Do It, and it finds a template that does not require the messy business of actual analysis.
To wit: Elizabeth Warren Is—oh, excuse me, "plays the role of"—Ted Cruz.
One former Democratic staffer turned financial services lobbyist compared Warren's involvement in the House to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who frequently meets with House Republicans. "Elizabeth Warren is the mirror image of Ted Cruz, and if we aren't careful, she'll drive the Democrats into the same ditch Cruz is trying to drive the Republicans," the former Democratic staffer said.
This person is an idiot and should not be allowed to hold anyone's money, including their own. Is there an indication that Warren will shut down the government if she doesn't get her way on the TTP? (And that's leaving aside the self-evident fact that , as it turned out last fall, the Republicans ended up not at all in any kind of ditch.) Ted Cruz is an authentic extremist; his views on church-and-state are blatantly theocratic, and his notion of the federal union stopped evolving when the results came in from the presidential election of 1860. Elizabeth Warren's primary mission during her time in the Senate is the re-establishment of an economic order with which most people were happy from 1945 until the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. There's nothing radical about the Glass-Steagall Act. There's nothing extreme about supporting both Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid in their traditional forms. On the other hand, Ted Cruz has gone a long way toward mainstreaming crackpot notions that everyone thought dead and buried with the Goldwater campaign, if not the Confederate States of America.
Cruz's campaign deployed a brand of Glenn Beck-like Tentherism, warning, among other things, that the United Nations was plotting with George Soros to get the federal government to crack down on golf courses in the name of sustainability. He pledged, à la Ron Paul, to eliminate the departments of education, commerce, and energy, along with the TSA and the IRS. He floated ideas that were unorthodox by traditional GOP standards but pet issues among Federalist Society types, including the use of interstate compacts—an agreement between two or more states—to nullify the individual mandate that is the backbone of health care reform. His theory, drawing on Supreme Court precedent, is that once Congress green-lights such a compact, it will supersede whatever federal law is in place, acting as a backdoor veto.
Today, Warren announced that she would support Chuck Schumer to replace Harry Reid as Minority Leader of the Senate. Ted Cruz has dedicated his entire career—and seems poised to dedicate his entire presidential campaign—to telling Mitch McConnell and the rest of his party's leadership in the Congress to pound sand. Which of them is the radical again?
The comparison is stupid and wrong, but it is quintessential Washington political journalism....
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a34013/elizabeth-warren-ted-cruz/
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