Cruz in Iowa claims shutdown got people talking

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and CATHERINE LUCEY

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Texas Sen. Ted Cruz argued to influential Iowa Republicans Friday that the partial government shutdown he helped precipitate this month was a success despite a compromise that reopened the government and ultimately funded the health care law he has made his name fighting.

His reason: It got people talking.

"One of the things we accomplished in the fight over Obamacare is we elevated the national debate over what a disaster, what a train wreck, how much Obamacare is hurting millions of Americans across this country," Cruz told about 600 Iowa Republicans at the state GOP's annual fundraising dinner in Des Moines.

Cruz's crusader's spirit was the perfect example of what longtime Republicans in Iowa and nationally say is at the root of the party's losing ways and has sparked an intraparty fight over the way forward after consecutive losing presidential elections.

FULL story at link.


Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20131026/DA9LJGOO0.html

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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaks Friday, Oct. 25, 2013, during the Republican Party of Iowa's Reagan Dinner at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Scott Morgan)

[olddad56]

1. wow, 600 people, he really packed them in.

[Beacool]

16. Hillary is not even trying and she had 8,0000 at one event and 5,000 at another.

Both events were at full capacity, she spoke at Colgate and the University of Buffalo.

Rafael only attracts the RW extremely batty crowd. Mainstream Republicans give him a wide berth.

[Brigid]

2. Got people talking about what Cruz?

What a moron you are?

[SoapBox]

3. I'm a people and here is some talking for you Krazy Man...

STFU.

[Cha]

4. Hey asshole.. the Government Shutdown that you and your idiot posse

perpetrated Wasted $24 Billion $$$$$. You're a bunch of fucking wastrels.

[struggle4progress]

5. "Yeah, I wuz sprinklin gas about the Capitol and tossin lit matches, but it shore got folk talkin!"

[BumRushDaShow]

6. "reopened the government and ultimately funded the health care law"

And the RW AP continues to publish bullshit misinformation. The appropriations process and approval of the current Continuing Resolution to end the government shutdown had nothing to do with the funding of the ACA, which is primarily self-funded and mandatory spending.

What they SHOULD have written was this - "reopened the government because the health care law's funding was never and would never be impacted by a lapse of funding for the government's discretionary-funded programs".

[Historic NY]

7. Come on Ted keep reminding them you flushed 24 billion down the rat hole...

because your the chosen special one.

[sendero]

8. Yeah..

.... mostly talking about what a clueless dick you are. Deludinoids are a self-correcting problem.

[kydo]

9. Yeah, it got people talking but mostly about how bat-shit-crazy baggers are

and how loony cruz really is.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

10. Proof again,

alternative realities do exist.

[Tom Ripley]

11. Wow, he really is just Sarah Palin with a law degree

Another attention-seeking narcissist

[Beacool]

17. He's a far smarter "Sarah Palin", which makes him more dangerous.

[Orsino]

12. Got people talking about Ted Cruz, he means.

Grifter.

[negoldie]

13. This what is wrong with journalism...

"Texas Sen. Ted Cruz argued to influential Iowa Republicans Friday that the partial government shutdown he helped precipitate this month was a success despite a compromise that reopened the government and ultimately funded the health care law"

This is what is wrong with the press. There was no compromise to open the government and it wasn't because of the fit they threw regarding the ACA. The ACA was already funded and it didn't take any sort of fucking compromise. The republicans got nothing for their fit. It's law so why are the writers of this AP piece putting shit into the story that doesn't exists. They got something right though, Ted Cruz pretty much caused it.

[They_Live]

14. Cruz went against his oath of office

to uphold the Constitution. The Supreme Court had already ruled that the ACA was constitutional. Why aren't all these pricks in jail?

[Beacool]

15. Yeah, it got people talking alright.

The consensus among fellow senators, the media and the American people at large, is that this narcissist is a major asshole.

[gopiscrap]

18. bullshit

[cyberswede]

19. I heard a radio report that he only received "polite applause" at this event

http://iowapublicradio.org/post/pondering-presidential-run-cruz-dines-iowa

Perhaps more surprising, the clapping only lasted 40 seconds, and the reception was more polite than electric. A week ago, Cruz got an eight-minute standing ovation upon his return to Texas.

[grantcart]

21. This from people that shelled out $ 100.

[marble falls]

20. Oh, he's got us talking all right, but if he'd listen to what we were saying he'd lose the .....

shit eating grin and fast.