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[quote=Anonymous][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]

His job is actually to keep the government running. As for the will of his constituents, of course he should pursue that, but not in a way that damages the country as a whole (such as by shutting down the federal government). The proper way to pursue the will of your constituents in our system of government is through compromise, because we are not a dictatorship ([i]waits for gratuitous reference to Obama wanting to be a dictator[/i]). You may not be able to deliver everything they want, but if you can deliver some high-priority items for them while compromising on some things they might not like so much in return, that's accomplishing something. We are a nation of diverse interests, and any rational person has to accept that you can't have your way all the time, you have to learn to work with people who are different from you. Cruz doesn't understand that, which is why he's not an effective senator.[/quote]

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