We Wouldn’t Have Had All Of Those Problems!
By Shorter Ted Cruz: I have a dream. I have a dream in which the Senate consists of 100 unreconstructed bigots.* We would greet Barack Obama’s next State of the Union address by whistling “Dixie.”
It should be noted that Ted Cruz is a perfectly plausible candidate to be the Republican candidate for president in 2016. I think you can understand why Republicans on the Supreme Court hate the Voting Rights Act so much they’re willing to rule parts of it unconstitutional even before they’ve figured out why.
*Of course, as the National Review reminded us, he didn’t oppose civil rights, he just “opposed a particular vision of them.” You know, the kind that involved civil rights protections for racial minorities or women.