How do we know we are in trouble? When Peter King(R,NY) is the voice of sanity.
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) on Friday continued to criticize conservatives and their effort to defund the health care law led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
“I wish some of these guys that want to be national leaders would speak out. I don’t know anybody else who did it besides me during this time,” King told the Associated Press. “I actually went and said, ‘This is crazy, Cruz is a fraud, he’s a false prophet, he’s leading us into the valley of death.'”
King is of course correct, Cruz and the Tea Party are certainly sending the Republican party into a death spiral which even though I may be a progressive I see as a bad thing. The thing is Ted Cruz is concerned about nothing but Ted Cruz. He doesn’t care if the Republican Party crashes and burns. He really has little interest in being an elected official. What he’s looking for is a really good job at a wingnut think tank. If anyone should be worried it’s probably Jim DeMint – Cruz is out to get his job.