Foreign Policy Mag: Ted Cruz 'Most Hated Man' in Senate  Foreign
Policy magazine has made a stark pronouncement about Texas
Senator Ted Cruz. According to FP's Erica Grieder, Cruz is "the
most hated man in the U.S. Senate."  In a March 29
piece, Grieder made this extreme judgment based on the new
Senator's outspoken positions on many issues, as well as on how
irksome he is to old guard Senators who imagine that first-year
colleagues should be seen and not heard.  Grieder starts her
piece with several gratuitous insults. Right off, she says that
Cruz is "the human equivalent of one of those flower-squirters
that clowns wear on their lapels." She then calls his
initiatives and ideas "non-sequiturs" and says they are "self-
defeating." This was all just the first paragraph.  Next we
learn that Cruz has "irritated" Democrats like Dianne Feinstein
and been a "headache for GOP leaders." This all because he
stands up strongly for his principles and the positions that got
him elected.  Does this really make him "hated