Let’s face it-Obamacare is not going anywhere, the government shutdown will end, default will be avoided and Cruz’s party will suffer the blame and the political fallout.Īnd when all of that comes to pass, Ted Cruz will do what The Brain always did-he'll come back the next day to begin a new episode with a plot to take over the world and will, once again, fail entirely. While Senator "The Brain" may have been clever enough to shut down Washington and put the nation in fear of the catastrophe that would be wrought if the government defaults on our obligations, he lacks sufficient brain power to concoct the successful endgame that would give him the prize he seeks-executive branch domination. And while he showed himself to be capable of engineering a strategy that gave him what he wanted-the shutdown of the United States government and the potential defaulting on our debt obligations-the Cruz strategy is, of course, doomed to fail for precisely the same reason that The Brain’s hair-brained schemes always failed.Ĭruz’s devious plan for domination was impossible to accomplish right from the outset. Together, these characters have set out on an adventure of domination, doomed at the outset to bring the same conclusion that every episode of “Pinky and the Brain” brought at the end- complete failure and embarrassment. John Boehner-Cruz’s good-natured but feebleminded (wine-addled would also work) henchman, with genetically altered orange skin, who actually has more good sense than his master but is happy to aid and abet The Brain's plan if that is what it takes to stay in the good graces of his friend. Ted Cruz-a brilliant but ‘self-centered and scheming’ deviant who begins each day hatching a clever, but impossible to execute, plan that will result in world domination when he moves into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.