Ted Cruz - better friends with Cicero than with Democracy

In his latest rabid indictment of President Obama, Ted Cruz uses Cicero's speech "Against Catiline" to explicitly accuse the President of being "openly desirous to destroy the Constitution and this Republic." Make no mistake - that's an accusation of treason. 

Even more, he speaks longingly of times past "when brave men and women would repress mischievous citizens with severer chastisement than the most bitter enemy."  Severer chastisement than the most bitter enemy?  How close can you get to wishing personal harm to the President without explicitly stating it? It's tantamount to paraphrasing Henry II's words about Thomas Becket and asking "Will no one rid me of this turbulent president?"

If Cruz is serious - and isn't a through-and-through demagogue - then he should immediately be pushing for impeachment, indeed, expending all of his energies, night and day, on bringing this treasonous activity he claims to an end, and bringing its chief proponent to justice.  But no, in order to be more full of shit, Ted Cruz would have to be two or even three people.  

Just one additional note - aside from Cruz trying to show how smart, well-read, and statesmanlike he is by pilfering Cicero's oratory, he should remember that Cicero was no friend of the working man, nor was he an advocate of anything approaching democracy.  Cicero was an articulate and powerful force in support of the old, strong republic, and had no warm feelings for the voice of the people. He blames democracy for the fall of the Greeks, and refers to the "lower classes" as "insane."  Cicero also has his mouthpiece, Scipio, assert the importance of a "well-constituted aristocracy" to lead Rome and protect it from a bunch of democratic, lower class rabble.

Come to think of it, that does sound more than a little bit like the Ted Cruz I recognize.

Ted Cruz, like Joe McCarthy, like James Michael Curley, like Benjamin Tillman, like Old Yeller, will eventually be recognized for the danger he presents to a healthy democracy.  It's inevitable. How much danger can he do, though, before the American White (Republican) Party, scrapes him from their heels?