Tailgunner Ted Going Down In Flames?

Now that Joe McCarthy clone and far-right Sen. Ted "Tailgunner Ted" Cruz's phony "fail-a-buster" is finished, the adults in the Senate can return to the business at hand:  taking action on the Rethuglican House's Continuing Resolution bill which attempts to defund the Affordable Care Act.  There's no way, of course, that's going to happen in the real world, but the real purpose of Tailgunner Ted's histrionics is to rile up the mouthbreather base into coughing up contributions to him and right-wing PACs.  It's a scam.

Jamelle Bouie has an interesting comparison between Tailgunner Ted and the Minnesota Loon, Michele "Crazy Eyes" Bachmann, and their love for political theater, conspiracies, and lying.  Crazy Eyes, who isn't running for re-election after ethics charges were leveled at her, had a brief but effective stint not as a legislator, but as a fundraiser for herself and the hard right.  She was taken seriously up until her first pronouncements as a Congresswoman, and then after that it was "who is this idiot?"  Tailgunner Ted is, according to reports, the most despised man in the Senate given his arrogant and disruptive behavior, so he's seemingly one step ahead of the Loon on the way to oblivion.