Wow, Candy Crowley, instead of gushing, actually asks Cruz some important questions...

[kpete]

"We haven’t had a Surgeon General — who is the nation’s leading public health official, at least the voice of it — for a year. Some Democrats and some Republicans had opposed the particular surgeon general the president had nominated. Do you think it would have helped A. If NIH and CDC had had a little more money and B. Had there been a surgeon general to kind of calm what has been the fear of Ebola?" Crowley asked on CNN's "State of the Union."

"Of course we should have a surgeon general in place," Cruz responded. "And we don’t have one because President Obama, instead of nominating a health professional, he nominated someone who is an anti-gun activist."

"And a doctor," Crowley jumped in.

Cruz conceded that Murthy is a doctor, but he then called him a "crusader against second amendment rights."

"And the funding, Senator?" Crowley asked.


more:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/candy-crowley-ted-cruz-ebola-cnn

[tularetom]

1. Cruz will be the wedge that splits the republican party in two

His nutty social policies and fundamental religious crap will be more than the country club/Wall Street/banker faction can stomach.

And the whack jobs will be unable to accept the fact that he won't be the nominee.

There isn't enough popcorn in the world.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. "bipartisan loathing for Senator Cruz"

There is plenty of blame to go around, he says—the Democrats in the Senate, for instance, what a disaster—but there is only one guy this conservative Republican congressman does acknowledge enmity for by name, and it's not Harry Reid or Barack Obama. "If you talk to Ted Cruz," he says, "tell him to stay on his side of the Capitol. We have enough problems without that idiot coming over here and screwing things up."

FOOLS ARE NOTHING NEW. There have always been fools, and rancorous factionalism, too. What is new in this part of history that we are living through is that we have been taken hostage by them and by the heroes of the Constitution and various other charlatans. But maybe earth and hell have finally been satisfied, and there is hope for common cause once again. From many members in both houses of Congress, I have heard bipartisan loathing for Senator Cruz of Texas. Hardly an era of good feeling, but it's a start.

"No one here respects that guy," Congressman Kurt Schrader of Oregon, a Democrat, tells me. "And yet he has this great following outside the building. And no one respects him in his own party in the Senate. It's really a travesty, Mark. It's really a travesty."
...
You also discover the broad embarrassment and anger among members of both parties that the public might associate them with the antics of people like Senator Ted Cruz and Republican congressmen Louie Gohmert and Steve King—avatars of a conflict that is deep and real, but also agitators in favor of dysfunction. Member after member fumed to me about those who measure success in terms of how many things they can stop, how much disruption they can sow, how much ill will they can foster, and how that ill will, lapped up by an eager press, is self-perpetuating. "If you don't want to legislate, maybe you shouldn't run for the legislature," says Congressman Tom Cole of Oklahoma.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/congress-living-hell-1114

[tblue37]

2. The nominee dared to call gun violence a public health issue--so the NRA has

forbidden its servants in the senate to allow a vote.

Calling gun violence a public health problem doesn't make a person an anti-2nd Amendment "activist," but ANY rational statement about gun violence is viewed that way in the Church of the Sacred NRA.

[Ykcutnek]

4. No Republican who actually has a chance at the WH will get asked important questions.

Especially by Crowley.

But I do commend her for slapping Smarmy-faced Cruz around a bit with a large trout.

[spanone]

5. fuck cruz...he's simply an Obama hater....a dangerous one