The old Ted Cruz is back

[DonViejo]

BY ANDREA DRUSCH
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February 07, 2018 05:21 PM
Updated 30 minutes ago

WASHINGTON
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a past and perhaps future presidential contender, spent the past year proving he can work well with Republican colleagues he’s butted heads with in the past.

Now less than a month out from Texas’s primary, where Cruz faces little serious opposition, that cooperation appears to be dissipating as he pushes his party toward a tough conservative agenda in Washington.

Cruz boasted Wednesday to a Texas audience that he rallied conservatives in the Senate to repeal Obamacare’s individual mandate in their tax bill, against the will of party leaders, who feared it could sink tax reform, their bigger policy priority. He’s also pushing his party to revisit efforts to repeal Obamacare this year, even though GOP leaders have moved on to other projects they believe will garner Democratic support in a chamber that’s been paralyzed by partisanship.

Speaking to members of the Texas Water Conservation Association in Washington, Cruz, who famously led a 2013 government shutdown over Obamacare, channeled his old self.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Talk about someone who could greatly benefit from

[FactyDude]

2. Might be my #1 dream loser in 2018.

[Sneederbunk]

3. I can smell the microwaved fish.

[SFnomad]

4. A horse's ass once ... a horse's ass forever n/t

[MagickMuffin]

5. To use a term that the Non-Dreamers love so much: "Ted Cruz is an Anchor Baby"

He was not born in the US. He should be deported NOW!!!

[SFnomad]

6. If Canada was smart, they wouldn't want him either n/t

[Justice]

7. He has a serious challenger in the general, so he is trying to stoke up right wing support