"Ted Cruz blasted by angry GOP colleagues"

[applegrove]

Ted Cruz blasted by angry GOP colleagues

By MANU RAJU at Politico

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/ted-cruz-blasted-by-angry-gop-colleagues-government-shutdown-97753.html#.UkyzGIsapPk.reddit

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At a closed-door lunch meeting in the Senate’s Mansfield Room, Republican after Republican pressed Cruz to explain how he would propose to end the bitter budget impasse with Democrats, according to senators who attended the meeting. A defensive Cruz had no clear plan to force an end to the shutdown — or explain how he would defund Obamacare, as he has demanded all along, sources said.

Things got particularly heated when Cruz was asked point-blank if he would renounce attacks waged on GOP senators by the Senate Conservatives Fund, an outside group that has aligned itself closely with the Texas senator.

Cruz’s response: “I will not,” according to an attendee.

The closed-door Wednesday meetings hosted by the Senate’s conservative Steering Committee are supposed to be private, so senators interviewed for this article asked not to be named.


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[applegrove]

1. Could not happen to a more deserving bunch.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. Breaking the Reagan commndment

Thou shall not speak ill of a fellow Republican

[Cha]

9. So throwing it under their fooking bus.

[BeyondGeography]

3. A no end-game shucker and jiver

[Xipe Totec]

4. Crucifiction? Yes. Good. Out of the Door, line on the left, one Cruz each. nt

[Journeyman]

5. Well, the heady excitement over Cruz assuming the mantle of leadership has gone dim . . .

that didn't take too long. . .

Wasn't there a 'toon posted a few days ago, with Cruz being placed among the pantheon of failed "Republican Saviors" from the past few years (Bachman, Perry, Cain & more)? And while I'm at it, what was the name of that Surgeon the right was pushing as their best & brightest just a few short months ago?

[Motown_Johnny]

6. More evidence to support my hypothesis

This is nothing more than the Teabaggers purging the party of Traditional Republicans who are not conservative enough for them.

The damage is the point. They seem to be willing to take losses for a couple of cycles if it means getting a more pure party.



http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023765595

[Cali_Democrat]

7. Everyone loves Ted Cruz

[Blue Idaho]

11. That is one genuinely scary looking psychopath.

He should be on the cover of Spoon Murderer's Monthly.

[cynatnite]

8. Wow...even hated by those in his own party...

I almost half expect to read that he got the shit beat out of him by other repukes.

[xfundy]

10. Perhaps they learned something from the McCarthy era.

His doppelgänger is leading them to the flush hole. Personally, I hope he starts playing the flute to get them all into the sewer, but wait, they're already there.

I am glad Pres.Obama is acting like his pre-election self again. It's time for the childishness to stop.