New York Times columnist David Brooks, speaking on the PBS News Hour and echoed on The Daily Caller website, thinks Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz is not a legislator in the traditional sense. Privately, Cruz might agree with this assessment.
Brooks sees Cruz and his tea party colleagues trying to take over control of the Republican Party. Again, Cruz might agree with that view, privately if not publicly.
Brooks says these folks merely want to STOP things, not actually legislate. That may be true but is, I think, situational. They want to stop what the Obama administration has started, and what the Reid-led Democratic majority in the Senate has moved forward.
In another setting, with people putting forward conservative legislation, they might be strong supporters thereof. Time will tell.
