Politics
Is the bureaucracy to blame for the siege on the Capitol?
Ted Cruz, the Tea Party, and Presidential Transitions
In 2016, Senator Ted Cruz said on “Fox and Friends”: “Any transition is like drinking from a fire hose, You have to do an incredible amount of work in a short amount of time.” Cruz was right and would know. He served on George W. Bush’s presidential transition in 2000 as coordinator for the critically important transition of the Department of Justice and later worked as an appointee in the agency. Cruz saw first-hand how tenuous, overwhelming, and dangerous the transition of power is, and why every elected official should ease the process.
But Cruz didn’t stop there. He continued in a manner familiar to anyone who has followed his Senate career by explaining that “Nobody should be surprised there’s media elites trying to throw rocks at the president-elect and his transition team.”
It is unsurprising that during the Biden-Harris transition Cruz and his gang have been throwing the rocks. On Wednesday, they incited the mob that overtook the Capitol to prevent Congress from confirming Joe Biden’s election victory and fulfilling an important final step in the presidential transition. Cruz riled those gathered around the Capitol when he boosted the unsubstantiated claims…
