Tag Archives: Ted Cruz
Primary Concerns: What We’re Watching on Super Tuesday
From Cruz's victory-or-die rally to down-ballot races to a Dem presidential face-off that seems to be happening on another planet, here's what to watch....Read More
I Have Seen All the GOP Debates. Things Are Not Great.
You go to Super Tuesday with the debate you have, not the debate you want. Can Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz stop the Trumpshow? ...Read More
The Cruz-ification of the GOP
Ted Cruz's speeches haven't changed, but his audience sure has.
Where once Cruz was a little-noticed frequenter of the Texas tea party circuit, he’s done more than any other Republican to set the tone in Congress during Ob...Read More
Loon Star State: Christian-Warrior-in-Chief
In February's Loon Star State cartoon, drawn by award-winning artist Ben Sargent, Ted Cruz embarks upon a job search... for a highly specific position....Read More
Y’all, Hillary Could Lose
Clinton’s lengthy record on domestic issues puts her at odds with the direction of her own party and the voters who comprise the Obama coalition. Her foreign ...Read More
New Data Proves Cruz Wrong on Climate Change, Again
On the campaign trail this week, Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz brought up what is perhaps his favorite climate denier argument: Satellite data show...Read More
Dan Patrick Finds The One
The lieutenant governor's relationship with Ted Cruz hasn't always been this cozy.
Would it be rude to point out that Patrick backed poor David Dewhurst in the 2012 Senate election that catapulted Cruz to power? Or gauche to remember that the ...Read More
Ted Cruz is Right. There’s No War on Women.
The draconian policies favored by the GOP are better described as a war on the American family.
Indeed, if you want a home for policies that restrict legal abortion, that would ban birth control, that decry parental leave as unnecessary, that deride breast...Read More
The New ‘Quiet Pessimism’ of Climate Change Denial
Texas conservatives may finally have to admit that a bevy of lawsuits can't stop the Clean Power Plan before it goes into effect in 2018.
While conferees still spent time trying to debunk established science and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opened the conference touting his lawsuit against th...Read More