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‘Real News From The Blaze’: Cruz Victory Confirms Changing Dynamics in GOP Senate Caucus

It’s been said that former Texas solicitor general Ted Cruz’s double-digit victory over Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in the state’s GOP Senate primary election Tuesday marks a major win for the Tea Party movement and grassroots efforts.

Considering Cruz’s likely ascension to the Senate, given that no Democrat has won statewide office in Texas since 1994, the primary win has created a lot of excitement among activists who see the potential for as many as ten strong “Tea Party” conservatives in the senate: current Sens. DeMint, Lee, Paul, Johnson, Rubio, Toomey and Coburn, with current candidates Cruz, Mourdock, and Flake. The Cruz victory speaks volumes to the desire among Republican voters to see more elected public officials willing to take a hardline against progressive policy. David Freddoso of the Washington Examiner suggests that this victory means there is a possibility that there could be an ‘un-bossable Senate’ where “a larger conservative core in the Senate may represent the best chance to avoid a repeat of the Bush years.”

Is this a case where the shift in GOP ideology will make legislators that the media now dubs as “ultra-conservative,” just conservative? Could this blow up in the face of right-leaning voters and conservatives who watch successful campaign rhetoric translate to further obstruction and inability to govern on Capitol Hill? Watch the “Real News” panel discuss below:

Comments (7)

  • Platea
    Posted on August 3, 2012 at 12:13am

    The TEA Party folks are the ones who want to use the Constitution as the ironclad rulebook. What a radical idea, espectially since a constitution is in fact an ironclad rulebook. These same people probably drive on the right side of the highway at posted speeds and stop at red lights and go on green. They don’t understand that freeways are living breathing transitways that should be used as the needs of the driver change. Dang! All this texting made me miss my exit. I guess I’ll just make a U Turn here and go ba

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  • Lar5
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 9:12am

    Sorry but the Tea Party looks like a return to the 40‘s and 50’s . It‘s made up almost all white faces that think they can return to a time of segregation and poll taxes should realize you can’t go back. They have to face the fact that this is a new society and must deal with it. This election is a last gasp of the religious zealots who want to control all social and economic policies with an iron fist. This attempt at a new inquisition will not last. The tea party’s “let them eat cake” era is doomed.

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  • kenboo1
    Posted on August 1, 2012 at 11:02pm

    As we stand right now, we have two houses of representatives. Both the senate and the house are elected by popular vote of the citizenry. Originally only the house was to be elected in this manner. The senate was to be appointed by each state’s legislature, thereby representing the states interest. As a result of the 17th amendment, the 10th amendment has no teeth. Furthermore, this has resulted in Federal power creep encroaching on states rights and thus has a deleterious effect on liberty.

    Part of the Senate’s responsibility is the “advise and consent of the Senate” in the appointment of judges etc… Or another way of saying this would be the “advice and consent of the ”States“ ” for which the senate is supposed to but no longer represents.

    Do you think the States would consider the unfunded mandates placed on them reasonable? As a result of the 17th amendment, they are no longer represented. Hence the Federal power creep. Kind of like taxation without representation don’t you think?

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  • GrannyATL
    Posted on August 1, 2012 at 10:31pm

    First, can we get rid of the “Real News from The Blaze” at the front of half the articles? Seems rather self-serving. We can see who the author is. (i.e., whether it’s an AP article or from some source other than The Blaze.)

    Why would Cruz’ win be considered to potentially blow up in the faces of Conservative voters and “translate into further obstruction and [an] inability to govern”? Is that a serious question?

    The “obstruction” is a mirage perpetrated by two parties in cahoots with one another. Their fake bickering is a deliberate game to keep the ball from moving down the court which some people perceive as “an inability to govern.” How many times has there been an outrageous grab of power by either Obama or someone in his administration with barely a whimper from the GOP leaders? Spineless cowards run the GOP and have been for some time now. We’ve been told that being a “moderate” and “reaching across the aisle” are the only way to move the ball, yet that has failed us miserably for decades.

    Electing strong Tea Party legislators who refuse to play along with the game is going to be the only way to get things moving again. Look at what we’ve already seen in the way that DeMint and Rubio and Rand Paul step out of the shadows and shed a bright spotlight on the issues at hand.

    More obstruction and an inability to govern? What rags have you been reading, Christopher?

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  • KangarooJack
    Posted on August 1, 2012 at 8:51pm

    I hope Republicans SEE that we want Gov’t to follow the Constitution.

    As for Democrats? lol lol Hope, they will CONTINUE to spin this as a fluke.

    It’s NO LONGER a two party system.

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on August 1, 2012 at 8:49pm

    “Considering Cruz’s likely ascension to the Senate, given that no Democrat has won statewide office in Texas since 1994….”

    Please remember that parts of Texas are extremely progressive. Like District 18; that keeps voting in Sheila Jackson Lee. Don’t let up and keep up the good fight Texas.

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