Cruz Outlines His Aggressive Agenda to Undo Obama’s Aggressive Agenda

If you live by the pen, you die by the pen. Everything put in place by executive order can be undone by executive order.

– Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), in a Washington Post interview about how he’d spend his first 100 days as president if he won, pledging to roll back more than just the president’s controversial orders related to immigration.

Bush’s Prez Prospects Dim

With each passing day, Jeb Bush looks weaker and weaker. While he has a top notch political team and (reportedly) tons of cash, he is dropping, not, rising in the polls. For a party desperate to win back the White House, Bush is looking more and more like a risky bet. … The latest Washington Post/ABC and CNN/ORC polls paint a grim picture of Bush’s general election hopes. In the CNN poll, Bush is the only candidate tested – besides Ted Cruz – that Hillary beats handily. She leads Bush 51 percent to 43 percent.

— Amy Walter, for the Cook Political Report.

GOP Primary Race Is Either ‘Christmas’ or ‘Halloween,’ Depending …

Nothing much is going on right now in the 2016 presidential campaign – unless you’re a Republican political junkie, in which case every day is Christmas or, perhaps, Halloween. Did you know that Donald Trump might actually run this time, instead of using our nation’s highest office to promote his reality-TV show? Or that the very former governor of New York, George Pataki, thinks he’s a candidate? Are you tremendously relieved that the GOP’s most persistent Dr. Strangelove — former U.N. ambassador John Bolton — has taken his hat out of the ring? I sure am. But that leaves 15 or more candidates either in it or circling.

Joe Klein, writing in Time.