{"id":272,"date":"2013-04-30T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/30\/take-the-hint-sen-cruz"},"modified":"2013-04-30T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T17:14:00","slug":"take-the-hint-sen-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"Take the hint, Sen. Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Listen up, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, one of your own is calling you out.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Rubin, a noted conservative columnist for the Washington Post, says Cruz is too mean and his mean streak is hurting the conservative cause.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/right-turn\/wp\/2013\/04\/29\/dont-be-a-jerk-sen-cruz\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/right-turn\/wp\/2013\/04\/29\/dont-be-a-jerk-sen-cruz\/\">http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/right-turn\/wp\/2013\/04\/29\/dont-be-a-jerk-sen-cruz\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t particularly care if Cruz\u2019s brusque behavior harms conservatives. I do care, though, if it gets in the way of good government.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz has been in the Senate for less than four months and already he\u2019s making a name for himself, several names in fact. And some of them might be unfit for print here.<\/p>\n<p>Remember the time he questioned whether Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, two decorated Vietnam War combat veterans, had a \u201csufficient regard\u201d for the military? And this came from someone who\u2019s never worn his country\u2019s military uniform. <\/p>\n<p>Well, he\u2019s taken \u2013 in Rubin\u2019s view \u2013 to voting against legislation and then criticizing his fellow Republicans for voting against his wishes. Rubin compares Cruz unfavorably to fellow tea party Senate golden boy Rand Paul, R-Ky., who Rubin describes as being \u201cpolite to a fault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese qualities serve him well, indeed making some strident positions seem less so. Moreover, Rand Paul is trying to accomplish something. He\u2019s put forth a budget. He\u2019s offered suggestions to amend the Gang of Eight\u2019s immigration bill. He\u2019s suggested reforms to our drug laws,\u201d Rubin writes about Paul.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz, on the other hand, comes off as a strident know-it-all who hasn\u2019t been in the Senate saddle long enough to understand the long-standing clubby nature of the organization to which he was elected.<\/p>\n<p>And when the rookie senator gets dressed down in public by the sometimes-irascible Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for impugning the integrity of someone such as former Republican Sen. Hagel, then you\u2019ve been dressed down by one of the best.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen up, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, one of your own is calling you out. Jennifer Rubin, a noted conservative columnist for the Washington Post, says Cruz is too mean and his mean streak is hurting the conservative cause. http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/right-turn\/wp\/2013\/04\/29\/dont-be-a-jerk-sen-cruz\/ I don\u2019t particularly care if Cruz\u2019s brusque behavior harms conservatives. I do care, though, if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=272\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Take the hint, Sen. Cruz<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}