Ted Cruz picks the wrong fight with bonkers ‘terrorist’ rhetoric – By Steve Benen (MSNBC) / May 1, 2023
If Ted Cruz really wants to have a conversation about the debt ceiling crisis and “terrorist” tactics, he might not like where the discussion ends up.
Imagine you’re watching a ham-handed action movie in which a group of dangerous radicals invade the home of an innocent family. The radicals point a gun at some of the homeowner’s loved ones and say, “Meet our outlandish demands or we’ll shoot.”
Moments later, you see the homeowner, scared but steadfast, telling the on-screen antagonists, “No, I’ll give you nothing.”
At that point, the radicals, frustrated but determined to get a ransom, respond to the homeowner, “You’re behaving like a terrorist.”
For many of us, that’d be about the time to give up on the absurd film, since the plot would simply be too bizarre to believe. But for the junior U.S. senator from the state of Texas, the poorly written radicals in the story might have a point. Rolling Stone noted yesterday:
As a battle over the debt ceiling looms large in Washington, Sen. Ted Cruz said that President Joe Biden is “behaving like a terrorist” by not negotiating with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
