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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I fail to see why Cruz is a jackass, nor is anyone giving a good explanation except "Boehner said so".

Is it because he won't simply vote the way Obama wants him to?

Is it because he stands up to those in Congress he feels are not representing the American people?

Is it because he stays true to the convictions he was elected on?

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Cruz is a jackass because he has zero interest in working collaboratively, even with his own party, to get things done, [b]even though that's the entire point of Congress.[/b] Look at his legislative history -- 90% of the bills he gets involved with are partisan extremism designed to give him an opportunity to grandstand rather than anything that actually has a chance of passing. He's more concerned with his own publicity than with getting things done, to the point of undermining his own party with respect to achievable goals. If you're a tea part extremist, you probably like Ted Cruz, but if you're a more mainstream Republican, you probably don't.[/quote]

So what you are saying is that a congressman's job is to go against what he knows is the desires of those who elected him, because he's now in power?

I don't know where people think the job of a congressman is to 'get things done'. Sometimes the job of a congressman is to stop bad policy from moving forward, even if that creates a stalemate.[/quote]

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