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…