An interesting thing is happening. The senator that Donald Trump spent weeks vilifying as “Lyin’ Ted” has become one of the strongest and most forceful defenders of his administration as the President-Elect’s cabinet choices face confirmation hearings. Here is what he said in support of Attorney-General nominee.
“Senator Sessions believes in the foundational idea that we are governed by objectively knowable, written rules, and that we should not be subject to the interpretive whims of unelected, power-hungry bureaucrats. Sessions will instill this belief at the Department of Justice.”
“The fact that this is controversial tells you all you need to know about the sorry intellectual state of our country’s elites, especially in the legal academy and federal bureaucracies.”
Not just a strong endorsement, but also a strong restatement of conservative principles. And an “in your face” to the outgoing administration, which has subverted immigration laws, the constitutional separation of powers, and generally treated the rule of law as an obstacle its political agenda.
Good going, Ted. Love you, Man.
Meanwhile, John McCain is undermining the Republican president-elect by passing on opposition research apparently sourced from 4Chan (from a firm with links to Planned Parenthood) containing salacious rumors to the FBI and offering an imprimatur of bipartisanship to Democrat Conspiracy Theories about Russia “hacking the election.” Marco Rubio went on the attack against the president-elect’s nominee for Secretary of State for not labeling the leader of a country the incoming administration will have to work with a war criminal. (Kind of baffled why so many people want to start a war with Russia, these days, but that’s the vibe.)
The thing is, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are both outsiders. Donald Trump is a populist, who ran under the Republican label perhaps because the Republican primary process isn’t rigged against outsiders to the degree that the Democrat primaries are. Ted Cruz is a conservative, not just a Republican who runs as one and then becomes a JV Democrat while in office. During the primaries, it was tough to decide which one the party establishment hated more.
John McCain and Marco Rubio represent the real Republican Party; a party that has refused every opportunity it has been given to reform and reduce Government, a party unwilling to stand up to their Democrat “friends,” a party cowed by a media complex that despises them and disloyal to the base that elects them. Trump and Cruz may wear the label of this party, but they are not really part of it.
I haven’t trusted Rubio since the Gang of 8 debacle. People kept saying he got tricked into supporting it, but I didn’t buy that. Now it seems that my instincts were correct. Good to know. Is Guy Benson getting over his blisteringly obvious crush on him yet?
Ditto X 1000
Months ago I thought Rubio had future potential, though still needing some maturing that more Senatorial experience would provide. Now, if Lil’ Marco votes against Tillerson he’s dead to me.
McCain is already politically brain-dead, so there’s little point. Just resign already….
VtheK, your headline (Trump and Cruz are the real RINOs) is brilliant. At first, it shocked a “what the heck?” out of me, but then it became apparent that it is referencing the fact that “real” Republicans just don’t have and haven’t had the stomach for conservatism. The “real” Republicans are at the “tipping point” of becoming the also-rans to the Trump and Cruz brand of “get-er-done” effectiveness.
Yesterday, Rex Tillerson showed us what a solid intellect looks like and nearly every Senator, Republican and Democrat alike, came across as yapping pound puppies. I am thinking of Rubio in particular. Tillerson has to sit through the most ham-handed attempts to get him to paint himself as pliable and arbitrary in his principles.
Then, Trump lowered the boom on a prima donna at his press conference.
The old order has been a cozy club of sycophants and dunderheads and now the “Barbarians” have crashed the gates.
conservative politician is an oxymoron. why would any career politician, someone that makes their living holding public office, be for less government power. truth is the democrat party policies are good for the politician, no so good for the people. the republican politicians only say they oppose those policies to hoodwink people that do oppose those policies into voting for them.
After seeing the clips this morning…I routinely change channels after Fallon’s monologues when he has these gushing, fawning “hagiographic encounters”…Fallon’s about “this close…” to losing me as a viewer.
Are we to endure years of Barry and Moochella reguarly and frequently appearing on SNL, Fallon, Ellen and the Morning Shows as defacto-leaders of the Disloyal Opposition at the head of the Democratic Party after Jan 20th? Moochella would fit right-in on The View. Or, maybe The Chew.
Excellent post as always, V. Don’t forget that Cruz is up for reelection here in Texas in 2018, so if the economy has turned around and the Dow is cruising towards 30,000 points, expect The Donald to come stump for Cruz here the same way Reagan did for Phil Gramm in 1982.
Regards,
Peter H.
@ Peter Hughes: I thought Texans had soured on Cruz after the Republican primaries? Or was that just more “fake news”?
@Sean L – Not to my knowledge. Nobody is thinking of challenging him in the primary, and since Rick Perry is the soon-to-be-Energy Secretary, he’s out of the mix.
Regards,
Peter H.
For a second I was like WTH?? But you got it exactly right !
It was disgusting to see the vulgar display put on by Rubio.
First off,he was reading “intel” compiled by the same politicized Intel community that can’t stop foreign hacking,didn’t find any wrong doing by Hillary’s illegal server,and promoted as fact that the Russians hacked the DNC to get Trump elected and then also put out disinformation about Trump hiring prostitutes in Russia?
But yet,he’s supposed to condemn Putin because Marco reads him a one-sided “damning” report intended to pressure him into an affirmative response?
I’m no fan of Tillerson,I can go either way on him,but that creepy “gotcha”question by Rubio was despicable and I’m glad Tillerson side stepped it.
@7 The stock market is disconnected from the economy. Trump already called it a bubble before the election. What needs to happen is another crash back to sustainable levels..same with housing…tech…etc
It’s more likely to hit 10,000 before 30,000
These people don’t read LeCarre or Forsythe amynore? There’s information, there’s misinformation, and there’s disinformation. (dezinformatsiya) And then there’s just political stupidity on the part of the consumer and the re-publisher. Apparently our Senate and the MSM operate in the latter.
Putting “John McCain” and “republican” in the same sentence:
indefectibly reminds you also that a possible anagram for McDonald’s “I’m lovin’ it” is, indeed, “ailing vomit”.