Ted Cruz blasted by angry GOP colleagues

[Cryptoad]

Source: Politico

Ted Cruz faced a barrage of hostile questions Wednesday from angry GOP senators, who lashed the Texas tea party freshman for helping prompt a government shutdown crisis without a strategy to end it.

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.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/ted-cruz-blasted-by-angry-gop-colleagues-government-shutdown-97753.html#ixzz2gc8iggC6


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/ted-cruz-blasted-by-angry-gop-colleagues-government-shutdown-97753.html?hp=t1_3

[Heather MC]

1. Aren't these asshole grown damn men

Ain't nobody put a gun to their damn head. They should have asked the question what is the end game before they followed him down this Rabbit hole.

[roguevalley]

11. they are eating each other. my twice daily prayers to the universe are coming

true. I was worried. I'm not young. I don't want to die before you younglings have a chance. Yes, I am a nosy old lady.

[Heather MC]

12. You are not old, You are seasoned.

I have been 25 for almost 2 decades! People believe me!

[roguevalley]

20. I love that! LOL! Thanks. Fire in the furnace even with snow on the roof :D

oh and you're still a kid to me.

[SaveAmerica]

2. How many buses are they going to use?

[Thor_MN]

18. I would wager that GOP buses are much shorter than those...

Just saying...

[Cryptoad]

26. You may have hit on the problem

They are all suffering from "Short Bus Syndrome "!

[SaveAmerica]

3. Operation Cruz against Republican Senators is on, BTW

I've seen calls by a Tea Party doll on FB to take our R Senator out of office. That's the Tea Party's next plan; to get rid of the R's who voted to keep America up and running by approving a budget. I hope they remember they created this monster.

'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.'

[jwirr]

7. We need to look into just exactly who the Senate Conservative Fund is. The Koch brothers?

[justice1]

14. Heritage Foundation

[1StrongBlackMan]

22. Then yes ...

the koch brothers.

[Tx4obama]

4. Cruz needs hold a press conf., apologize to the American people for this shutdown mess, then resign

[kelliekat44]

5. Time to really question his citizenship and weather or not he has any alligiance to USA!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023760744

[SunSeeker]

8. Yup, another GOP disaster with no endgame, just like Iraq.

Hopefully this one won't last as long.

[2naSalit]

9. Sounds like they've found

their Judas.

I can think of a few things that need to happen here, beyond just prosecuting these pukes, like questioning Cruz's allegiance and citizenship (as mentioned above) and somehow getting the DOJ to banish the TP crowd as a political player due to their penchant for destroying the country... like domestic taerrists or something. Honestly. I am not sure what can be done but something with teeth and permanence.

[Beacool]

10. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

I hope that they threw food at him. I also hope that this guy ends up like McCarthy, disgraced and forgotten.

[davidpdx]

15. I wish for worse than that

They should drag him into the men's restroom put his head in a toilet and flush it about a half dozen times.

[1StrongBlackMan]

23. I suspect that ...

that is exactly why he is the way he is ... too many toilet flushes in his elementary, middle and high school years.

I also suspect that had cruz been born 10-15 years later, we'd have read about him as having perpetrated a columbine style event.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Remember Norquist still controls alot of them

and they are now repeating his talking points against Crudez...

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/norquist-cruz-pushed-house-republicans-into-traffic-and-wandered-away

[Zorro]

16. Yet they will rally around him if there's criticism of Cruz from across the aisle

All Republican politicians are consummate hypocritical assholes, after all.

[IrishAyes]

17. Hmm.. So they throw a raucous drunken party to celebrate the shutdown

and now, as the chickens come home to roost and their hangover won't quit, they're getting mad. Wasn't that trip down the garden path fun?

[certainot]

19. he should just defer to limbaugh- the guy blowing hot windy chunks in his sails

[yonder]

24. "hot, windy chunks"

good one, just wish I could un-visualize that!

[1StrongBlackMan]

21. As much as I hate to admit this ...

I think cruz DOES have a plan ... He's just not ready to let the cat out the bag because he doesn't trust the gop to not derail it before he springs it.

But I also think that his plan won't work and the gop won't like it and that's why it won't work.

[blkmusclmachine]

25. Suuuuuuuuuure they're mad. Uh-huh. Riiiiiiiiight.

America, meet bathtub.

[question everything]

27. On Chris Matthews a Republican strategist said it was not clear what was Cruz' agenda

Of course he has an agenda: me me me!