Speaking of Love for Sale

Who doesn't love Kimberly Strassel?

Unfortunately, when she writes "Never mind that every Republican, once past the Cruz show vote, opposed the increase on final passage," she's got it exactly backwards. It's the no vote that is the show.

It's the toughest question in politics, how far to go and when. But people love gumption, and the hardest thing to do is declare a policy a failure and move on to something new. It's so hard that the general rule is, it can't be done.

So, punk, the question you gotta ask yourself is, who's the failure?

Update: Et tu, Tom? A little hard to tell where Mr. Sowell is landing on this one. His literal words for Cruz seem as hostile as Strassel, but all his argument is against what Cruz is fighting, and it's spot on. Not only the norm for Sowell, but well above it. Too bad he couldn't have added Bush explicitly to the list, but probably that's wise. People's brains would turn off and they'd go to their "Bush is bad" box.

Here's the deal, Tom. The ideas and the rhetoric come first, not last. And show votes don't count.

Update*Update: Tom's clear here. True enough, Tom, true enough. Now go back and find me some history where a lost battle was won. When you're done with that, then come back and tell me which one you've got.