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After four years of taunting and torturing fellow Republicans , Ted Cruz is shedding his just-say-no persona in the Senate for a new identity : Team player . 
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell -- a man Cruz once derided as a liar and an ally of Democrats -- is counting on the Texan to help navigate an Obamacare repeal bill through the Senate with virtually no margin for error . 
As a trusted voice of the conservative wing of the GOP and conduit to the House Freedom Caucus , Cruz is fast emerging as a pivotal player in the Republican bid to do away with the landmark Democratic health care law . 
But after receiving so much blowback for that and many other episodes , there 's nary a Cruz critic in the Senate Republican Conference nowadays . 
Cruz 's work on health care has been uncharacteristically low profile so far . 
It began with a private dinner in mid-February at the upscale D.C. steakhouse Capital Grille with the more compromise-minded Alexander , who once chided Cruz for calling McConnell a liar on the Senate floor by noting that one thing "you learn in Kindergarten is to respect one another ." 
Alexander and Cruz agreed to assemble a group of GOP senators to prepare for the eventuality that the House would send them a health care bill riddled with flaws that could not pass the Senate as written . 
But when it comes to passing a new health care law , Republicans believe the inclusion of Cruz and his close ally , Sen. Mike Lee -LRB- R-Utah -RRB- , could pay critical dividends by building support among conservative groups and the House Freedom Caucus . 
"One of the challenges when the Obamacare bill was in the House , was that early on was that the different parts of the party were not talking to each other ," Cruz said in an interview in his office . 
Collaborative and inclusive are not typically words associated with Cruz . 
Now that President Barack Obama is out of office , Cruz said his mission in the Senate is no longer to be the "loyal opposition ." 
"Different circumstances call for different approaches ," said Cruz , who is gearing up to run for a second term next year in a closely watched race . 
Cruz 's leading role has shocked some of his colleagues . 
The group that Cruz helped develop is , in some ways , a substitute for the traditional committee process . 
"We have skin in the game ," Cruz said . 
Still , there 's concern among some more centrist senators that the end-product could appeal too much to Cruz and not enough to the dozen or so Republican senators who have grave concerns about slashing Medicaid and removing protections for preexisting conditions . 
Clearly he believes Lee and Cruz are crucial ; but some GOP sources said there are deep doubts among senators that Collins or Sen. Rand Paul -LRB- R-Ky . -RRB- 
Though GOP leaders believe by getting Cruz involved they are minimizing the possibility that Cruz will later demolish their repeal efforts , the Texas firebrand is n't on the same page about everything . 
Cruz wants to go as big as possible , and if Senate rules prohibit his idea , he believes Vice President Mike Pence should simply overrule the parliamentarian . 
"The parliamentarian merely advises , the vice president decides ," Cruz said . 
But on almost every other front , Republicans say , Cruz is being highly productive .
Ted Cruz

Bush should have fired both men . 
There 's been a lot of talk lately about George W. Bush 's legacy in Iraq , and what it means for his brother Jeb 's hopes of following him to the Oval Office . 
When he was first elected , in 2000 , Bush 's rough-and-ready demeanor had a Harry Truman cast . 
Bush 's incompetence was ultimately responsible for the ineffective federal response from August 29 to September 2 . 
Bush , furthermore , embarrassed himself by flying down to the Gulf and claiming that "Brownie" was doing "a heck of a job ." 
The national media rightly ripped into Bush like never before . 
More than any other event of his White House tenure , Bush 's slow response to Katrina made Americans ask if he was a "bunker" commander , relying too much on cautious paper pushers such as FEMA 's Michael Brown and Homeland Security 's Michael Chertoff . 
After the attacks on the United States on September 11 , 2001 , Bush was virtually unseen during the first 11 hours , making only brief statements and effectively ceding the public leadership role in the crisis to New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani . 
Politically , Bush was wounded , never to fully recover , his standing made all the worse as the economy tanked in 2008 . 
Just as New Orleans 's levee system catastrophically failed to work -LRB- breaking in about 50 places -RRB- Bush had catastrophically failed to save lives . 
Bush chose to fly over New Orleans in Air Force One instead of doing an on-the-ground inspection -- a clear sign of aloofness , indeed , of fear . 
Even George W. Bush 's most stalwart supporters cringed at his disconnect from reality . 
Bush , like Michael Jackson in his days at Neverland Ranch , was living in a bubble . 
Bush was , quite simply -- as Coast Guard first-responder Jimmy Duckworth phrased it -- "out of the game ." 
Instead , Bush monitored developments mostly from afar . 
On the 10th anniversary of Katrina , with the advantage of hindsight , it 's clear that Bush 's lack of leadership in late summer of 2005 cost his presidency mightily . 
Unlike Ronald Reagan , after the Challenger explosion , or Bill Clinton , after the Oklahoma City bombing , Bush had failed to feel the profound implications of the moment as his predecessors had . 
But Bush -- a private man by nature -- was never a particularly accessible president or an outwardly sensitive one . 
Instead , Bush acted as though he were disinterested in the natural disaster . 
No matter how the Bush library in Dallas tries to spin Bush 's Katrina performance , we all know he deserved an F in crisis management .
George W Bush

MALE (Reuters) -  Maldives President Abdulla Yameen  fired  his  second police chief in three days and the opposition said  it  feared violence  as the island nation was pitched deeper into a crisis caused by  Yameen ’s failure to obey a court order to free jailed opponents.
Three days after the Supreme Court threw out terrorism convictions against  Yameen ’s political opponents   his  government on Saturday was still ignoring international and domestic pressure to set them free.
Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets to demand compliance with the court order  and Western countries and international organizations have urged  Yameen  to obey  it .
The court also ordered 12 members of parliament who had been stripped of their seats to be restored to the body. The 12 had quit  Yameen ’s ruling party last year  and allowing them to return to the legislature would deprive him of a majority.
The crisis poses the biggest threat to  Yameen ’s control of the Maldives since he took power in 2013  defeating Nasheed in an election that Nasheed’s supporters say was rigged.
 Yameen  has stopped short of saying  he  will not obey the court order to free  his  opponents.  He  told a party meeting on Saturday  he  “did not expect the Supreme Court ruling at all”.
“We’ve started dialogue with the Supreme Court. We’ve sat and started talking about difficulties or concerns the state has ”  he  said. “We’re working on making sure we can respect the court order in a way that doesn’t cause any difficulties to the people.”
 He  fired the chief of police on Thursday shortly after the court order was handed down  and on Saturday  he  fired the acting police chief  he  had chosen to replace  him .
The Maldives  an Indian Ocean island chain of around 400 000 people known to outsiders mainly as a tropical paradise for the tourists that provide most of its foreign exchange income  has experienced political unrest since  Yameen  took power.
 Yameen  is the half brother of Maumoon Abdul Gayoom  who ruled the Maldives for three decades until losing an election to Nasheed in 2008.  Yameen  and Gayoom have since had a falling out and Gayoom is now aligned with the opposition.

Abdulla Yameen