Sounds like a roaring recommendation for Senator Cruz! The senate needs fresh blood the current occupants have sat in those chairs and soaked themselves in the multitude of perks way too long. The senate was not meant to be a sinecure.

Oh, and John McCain a "Vesuvious" ? Frank Bruni needs to get out more!

From the article:

Just six weeks since his arrival on Capitol Hill, he’s already known for his naysaying, his nit-picking and his itch to upbraid lawmakers who are vastly senior to him, who have sacrificed more than he has and who deserve a measure of respect, or at least an iota of courtesy.

Really? These are the guys who put us into this mess in the first place.

Thats right Boy. Mind your betters and keep your mouth shut and you´ll make your million, just like we did.

Oh, this is rich. This Bruni rube is a typical DNC operative, both condescending, and pugnacious at the same time. FTA: ´Cruz has expressed skepticism about climate change, a position perhaps in tune with his hyperconservative base and his state’s oil interests but at odds with his apparently keen intellect.´ Frankie boy, its time to get off the kool-aid, and smell the coffee.

And this little gem: ´In questioning Hagel during the nominee’s confirmation hearing, he took a surprisingly, audaciously contemptuous tone.´ Uh, Frank. Thats what the Senators are there to do. They are there to get facts. And when they have to deal with idiots like Hagel, sometimes they have to raise their voices a little to get any cooperation. Now, I´m sure Frankie boy is going to tell us next how polite and cooperative his donks have been over these years.

I wish Senator Cruz would take the Senior Senator from Mississippi into a quiet room and explain the facts to his senile self. Not only did he vote to confirm the traitor Jon F´n Cary, but he voted to confirm Hagel too.... Sad, so very sad.

They are already trying to take out the GOP´s brightest lights for 2014 and 2016, like they did with Palin. If the bright lights make the mistake of playing defense, instead of exposing the attackers, they´re toast.

I agree with #6.

Two NYT articles abtou Nasty Cruz in the first 10 this morning. Somebody is doing something right!

Ted just doesn´t get it according to the Times. Der vil be no opposition to de fuher.

Just ignore the tyrannical press Ted. Their blatant attempts to crush opposition have become childlike in their predictability and ignorance.

Cruz must be doing something right... the farrrr left NY Times & Politico are trashing him...kind of me reminds me of Palin...

Thanks, Frank Bruni, for publishing more proof that journalism has devolved into the dumbest profession on this planet.

I enjoy reading about you leftards´ hissy fits about a normal person that actually asks intelligent questions of the sychopants amassed in DC and expects a rational answer.

Oh, and thanks for telling us what we conservatives should be doing in DC. Coming from someone stuck on stupid, it really means a lot to us...

Cruz was correct when he told members of congress...stop reading the NY Times....

OK Frank, now do a critique of Harry Reid.

Any newcomer to Congress, who will go in there, naysay, nit-pick and upbraid self-righteous lawmakers who are overpaid, underworked and vastly self important is okay in my book.

Since the NY Slimes has to get their articles approved by the WH before they see print, why is anyone surprised by two hit pieces.

Bruni needs to go back to writing about food...

Dittos #6 et al. The politics of personal destruction continues unabated.

Now for the really important issue: did Cruz have a drink of water at any time?

Nasty newcomer Mr. Bruni? What´s not to like about this brilliant, young, conservative "Texas Ranger" armed with a B.A. from Princeton and a Juris Doctor (Magna Cum Laude) from Harvard Law School?

Kinda reminds me of the world´s original "Conscience Of A Conservative," the late Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona. Who can ever forget Mr. Goldwater´s immortal words for the ages..."Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."?

Sen. Cruz is a Harvard graduate which is what the Dimwits said put Obama in the position of being brilliant. He is also hispanic which means that Bruni is being racist. Oh, what fun Sen Cruz is going to have putting all of those old career politicians in their places. Love it!

What did this Bruni person have to say about Barbara "Call Me Senator" Boxer (D-Nutland)? I suppose her tone was, uh, senatorial...

Mr Cruz should wear this as a badge of honour. We need 60 more like him in the Senate. It is long past time for that. All the votes he made so far were the right ones.

Bruni said the same thing about Obama who had the nerve to think he could run for president without having any qualifications. At least I think he did. I´m searching for his quote. ...Damn ! I think Google´s broke.

I hope Cruz continues to slap their chops and that some people get some backbones and stones to support him. HE is what we were looking for out of the 2010 elections.

The NYT needs to be very publicly called out for their racist, anti-Latino attacks on Rubio and now Cruz. The should be the talking point on all the Sunday talk shows.
Hoist them on their own petard.

Here´s hoping that when Obama and the dems give amnesty to all the illegals, that the Hispanic men all morph into Ted Cruz. The Democrat nightmare, to the max.

This means Cruz is doing all the right things. Keep it up Senator.

Keep it up Cruz. You are a breath of fresh air in a mostly rotten senate run by the crook Harry Reid. Don´t let up and stand your ground against the onslaught of garbage the left is going to heap on you. As for the NYTs, the trees would be put to better use making toilet paper.

Who came out looking better after the McCain scold of Cruz? Not McCain.I am extremely tired of the fraternity/exclusive club atmosphere of our Senate. I am all in favor of young whippersnappers shaking it all up. Rubio did not take a back seat after his election in 2010 and neither should Cruz. Go Tea Party!

McCain, the poster child for a "go along to get along" Republican. I voted for Cruz, and am darn sure glad he won.

McCain, poster boy for the Progressive GOPer, is annoyed that someone will soon be calling him out for treasonous support of Obama´s agenda.

The senior senators of both parties neither have earned any respect nor deserve respect.
I say hang them all! Traitors one and all!

Mccain, what a blow hole!

He´s the damned restaurant critic writing on politics? Such idiocy forces doubt about his qualification for either position.

I´m sure I´m not the only one who recalls how our cabal of Palin haters were also the ones saying how Cruz was not collegial enough and that´s why they were voting for David Dewhurst for TX senator in 2012. Interesting how none of them have appeared on this thread.

LOL!! Thanks Mr. Bruni. Play nice? Like the democrat party does?

~~And right now the Republican Party accommodates too much quackery, belligerence and misplaced moralism to play a fully credible part in a vital, essential debate about the size and scope of government. The party should be a place where voters who are reasonably concerned about government overreach can turn. It shouldn’t be a bastion of regressive social ideas and foul tempers.~~

As a general rule, I don´t like Senators. Cruz, Inhofe, and Paul are the exceptional exceptions.

I´m glad Ted Cruz is ruffling some feathers on the old Senate turkeys!

The Democrates have dished nasty out for so long Ted Cruz most be quite a shock!