{"id":586,"date":"2013-02-17T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/17\/sen-cruz-making-plenty-of-waves"},"modified":"2013-02-17T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T18:50:00","slug":"sen-cruz-making-plenty-of-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Cruz making plenty of waves"},"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><a title=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/17\/opinion\/sunday\/ted-cruz-the-gops-nasty-newcomer.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/17\/opinion\/sunday\/ted-cruz-the-gops-nasty-newcomer.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/17\/opinion\/sunday\/ted-cruz-the-gops-nasty-newcomer.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Frank Bruni\u2019s column in today\u2019s New York Times is spot on in its critique of Texas\u2019s shiny new U.S. senator, Republican Ted Cruz, who pranced onto the national stage six <em>weeks<\/em> ago \u2013 and promptly embarrassed himself and the state he represents.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite passage from the column is this: <\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSeparately, in front of an audience of conservatives, he smirked dismissively as he griped that (Defense Secretary-designate Chuck) Hagel and (Secretary of State) John Kerry were \u2018less than ardent fans of the U.S. military.\u2019 Those two men fought in Vietnam, and earned Purple Hearts; Cruz never served in the institution he purports to regard so much more highly than they do. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOnly three senators voted against Kerry\u2019s confirmation as secretary of state. Cruz was among them.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always thought it to be senatorial custom for new guys to learn their way around the place before stepping on so many toes all at once. Cruz is emboldened, I suppose, by the big victory he scored in winning the senatorial race this past November in Texas, not that it surprised anyone, given the state\u2019s heavily Republican leanings. <\/p>\n<p>The sheer insult, though, of someone such as Cruz questioning the military credentials of two decorated combat veterans simply goes beyond the pale. <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s really nothing more I can add to Bruni\u2019s commentary. Well said, Mr. Bruni.<\/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>http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/17\/opinion\/sunday\/ted-cruz-the-gops-nasty-newcomer.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0 Frank Bruni\u2019s column in today\u2019s New York Times is spot on in its critique of Texas\u2019s shiny new U.S. senator, Republican Ted Cruz, who pranced onto the national stage six weeks ago \u2013 and promptly embarrassed himself and the state he represents. My favorite passage from the column is this: \u201cSeparately, in front of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=586\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sen. Cruz making plenty of waves<\/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-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","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=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}