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Fake-Blustering Ted Cruz Has a Plan to Get the America He Wants: Minority Rule

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Ted Cruz has figured out how to get the America he wants: he wants to impose minority rule.

No, not majority rule, minority rule.

The senator from Texas hatched a "plan" to "defund Obamacare" by threatening to shut down the federal government. He got a lot of true-believer conservatives -- especially in the Republican-controlled US House -- to buy into the scheme. But the Texan never rounded up significant support for his approach in the upper chamber.

The whole defunding scheme -- which was never grounded in budgetary reality -- has begun to look more and more like the sort of mess that costs political parties seats.

So the senator who made the mess is now on Cruz control.

He's trying whatever comes into his head -- like an all-nighter talkathon (a "fake-buster") that saw him reading Dr. Seuss and Ayn Rand as Tuesday gave way to Wednesday. At best for Cruz, it's a delaying tactic. At worst for Cruz, it slows action just long enough to assure that "crisis" votes will have to be taken by House Republicans on the eve of a government shutdown.

Above all, the exercise highlights the Texan's isolation from his own party, which for the most part is not backing his strategy. And from the process of governing as it has been understood across American history.

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