Mere days before a possible government shutdown, a nation waited and watched as a freshman Senator read his children a bedtime story. At 2:41 p.m. on Sept. 24, Ted Cruz buttoned his black coat and stood up from his desk in the corner of the Senate chamber. Then he launched into a sermon that lauded White Castle hamburgers, his father's pancake-flipping skills and Ashton Kutcher. Cruz, a Republican from Texas, is an Ivy League--educated legal prodigy. But the smartest move of his political career may prove to be reciting Dr. Seuss to a nearly empty room in the middle of the...
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