Ted Cruz Warns That Shutdown Could Lead To A Terrorist Attack Against U.S.

[kentuck]

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/10/02/2719221/ted-cruz-warns-that-the-shutdown-he-caused-could-lead-to-attack-on-us/

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CRUZ: If the Senate cooperates, we could get this passed by the end of the day. We could respond to the national security threat these two gentlemens [sic] have laid out. The only impediment to doing so is the prospects that Majority Leader Harry Reid would object to doing so. If, God forbid, we see an attack on the United States because the intelligence community was not adequately funded, every member of the committee would be horrified. So I hope issues of partisan politics can be set aside and we can all come together and pass, right now by the end of the day, a continuing resolution to fully fund the Department of Defense and intelligence community.

with video

[liberal N proud]

1. If that happens, it will be on Ted Cruz

He brought this on, he needs to live up to it.

[eShirl]

2. OK. In the words of the great Bob Newhart, "Stop it."

"Just stop it."

[FiveGoodMen]

3. He could be seen drooling as he spoke...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. Yes, we could soon find ourselves victim to ideological radicals....

...who make threats against the American people if they don't get their way.

Oh, wait.....

[Aerows]

9. I know!?

What is this idiot smoking?

[winter is coming]

5. The shutdown *is* a terrorist attack against the U.S. and he's spearheading it. n/t

[alsame]

6. The GOP

is a terrorist attack against the US.

[NuclearDem]

7. Then you shouldn't have engineered it you disingenuous two-faced pantscrapping twit.

[Spider Jerusalem]

8. Either Cruz can't speak proper English, or the transcriptionist can't write it

"gentlemens"? "is the prospects"?

And, as far as I'm concerned? They want to shut down the government, then they can live with the consequences of that action. Reid et al shouldn't blink on this.

[malaise]

10. Is he planning this?

[Barack_America]

13. It's happening. He engineered it. Nt

[meow2u3]

11. If there is a terrorist attack on US soil, Ted Cruz is responsible

because he decided to con House repukes into shutting down the government. He should be immediately indicted for inciting terrorism and expelled from the Senate.

[Old and In the Way]

12. Too late, Ted. Terrorists have already stopped the USG in its tracks.

Check the mirror if you need to see one.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Well, duh, Cruz should have thought about that first. Oh, wait, he did and went ahead anyway. nt

[kestrel91316]

15. Was he hoping that somebody would hear him and do it?

Somebody just might have.

http://kfor.com/2013/10/03/u-s-capitol-on-lockdown-after-shots-fired-nearby/

[tanyev]

16. Sounds like a threat, Ted.