Day: September 27, 2013

My former Texas Senator, John Cornyn, with whom I've never agreed, told Ted Cruz words to the effect that you don't burn the house down to kill the rats.  But I wonder.  is Cruz crazy enough to try to do just that?  I read he is now collaborating with House teabaggers to create a coup against their own elected leader, John Boehner to take the country to the brink of default on the debt ceiling issue. I saw these people up close and personal in my Texas life and I can tell you that while they give lip service to the Constitution, they do not recognize the rules laid down therein.  They do not recognize the results of democratic elections when they lose and in fact, do all kinds of nefarious things to break rules which do not serve their interests.  These people are rabid revolutionaries.  They are not incrementalists by any definition.  Burning the house down for them is the easiest way they can achieve their white bread theocracy.  They are smart enough to understand that they have to first inhabit the house in order to get to the oven to light it and burn baby burn.