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Re “Ted Cruz’s Flinty Path” (column, Sept. 24):

Frank Bruni is not old enough to remember watching television as Senator Joseph R. McCarthy went about doing the Devil’s business.

For those of us who are old, Joseph McCarthy has clearly been reincarnated in the body and spirit of Ted Cruz, the junior Republican senator from Texas: same appearance (brooding, ominous), same curl of the lip, same shameless innuendoes and lies, same gigantic ego.

A little late perhaps, but Senator McCarthy’s wagon was eventually fixed by popular demand. I hope that we won’t have to wait much longer for Senator Cruz to follow suit.

ANNE BERNAYS
Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 24, 2013

To the Editor:

Ted Cruz isn’t nice. Ted Cruz is conceited. Ted Cruz is irreverent.  Blah blah.

Too bad there isn’t a progressive Ted Cruz in Congress to shake up tired Democrats and an inhibited president and drag them to aggressive action against Republican economic Darwinism and toward an enthusiastic promotion of big, constructive public spending in the public interest.

MICHAEL M. OELBAUM
New York, Sept. 24, 2013