Senator Cruz Returns To Texas Welcome After Shutdown Battle

[Purveyor]

SAN ANTONIO | Sun Oct 20, 2013 12:34am EDT

(Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, a favorite of the conservative Tea Party movement, returned home to a rousing welcome in Texas on Saturday after his attempt to derail Obamacare with a shutdown of the federal government led to sharp criticism of his tactics as reckless and futile.

"After two months in Washington, it's great to be back in America," Cruz joked in speaking to a crowd of about 750 people in a packed downtown San Antonio hotel ballroom.

Cruz was greeted with an eight-minute standing ovation in an appearance organized by the Texas Federation of Republican Women. People in attendance, many of them wearing red to show their support for keeping Texas a conservative-leaning state, lined up to greet him.

The speech and another talk earlier in the day at a panel in Austin marked Cruz's first public appearance in his home state of Texas since his part in the showdown in Washington over the rollout of Obamacare that resulted in a 16-day shutdown of the federal government that ended on Thursday.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/20/us-usa-politics-cruz-idUSBRE99J00V20131020

[ailsagirl]

1. ...

[gopiscrap]

2. what an asswipe

if he was my rep. I'd be seriously embarrassed.

[RobertEarl]

3. Two months cost us 24 billion

But this is a dude who can turn 6,000 into 100,000, so 24 billion of our money is chump change to him?

[Tx4obama]

4. The majority of the comments on that OP article link so far are ANTI-Cruz :)

I really wish that Kay Bailey Hutchison had not retired - at least she crossed the aisle and voted with the Dems sometimes, and she was not a nut like Cruz.

A couple of us here at the house this evening were talking about her and wondered what she must think now about Cruz having her seat.

[jsr]

5. Eight-minute standing ovation for their new god

[factsarenotfair]

6. "750 in a packed...ballroom."

That's not a "public appearance" and it's not impressive.