Ted Cruz has a list

By Richard K. Barry 

For such an apparently smart guy, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is an idiot. On paper he is a 1995 graduate of Harvard Law School, and an editor of the Harvard Law Review, which they tell me is a big thing.

As part of a typical right-wing rant given at a Koch brothers sponsored event, Cruz mentioned, as per normal, that President Obama was "the most radical" President "ever to occupy the Oval Office."

Jane Mayer of the New Yorker, who was there and took notes, writes that:

He then went on to assert that Obama, who attended Harvard Law School four years ahead of him, "would have made a perfect president of Harvard Law School." The reason, said Cruz, was that, "There were fewer declared Republicans in the faculty when we were there than Communists! There was one Republican. But there were twelve who would say they were Marxists who believed in the Communists overthrowing the United States government."

Just when you think they won't go there, they reintroduce their damned imagined McCarthyite lists.

Quite predictably, Harvard University, through spokesman Robb London, defended its reputation by saying, among other things, "We are proud of our longstanding tradition of freedom of speech and the robust range of views and debates on our campus."

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They told us Obama was a socialist, but would we listen?

By Richard K. Barry

 

Jon Stewart will never run out of material as long as right-wing bloggers continue to exist. In a breathless post a couple of days ago, the Gateway Pundit revealed that Barack Obama will officially launch his reelection bid on May 5th, today, which just happens to be Karl Marx's birthday.

Well, isn't that interesting? Obama's team is masking its radical intentions for America by hiding them in plain sight. How clever. How insidious.

You know who else was born on May 5th? Soren Kierkegaard (Danish philosopher); Blind Willie McTell (blues singer); Tyrone Power (actor); Tammy Wynette (country singer); and Brian Williams (news anchor).

I have no idea what that means, but I'm sure someone with nothing better to do will figure it out for me.

(Oh, and happy birthday, Karl!)

(Cross-posted at Lippmann's Ghost.)