Quest By Cruz, Lee Divides Republicans _ Fool's Errand Or Heroic Stand?

[Purveyor]

Fool's errand or heroic stand?

The bipartisan compromise on Wednesday to avoid a financial default and end a 16-day partial government shutdown cast a spotlight on Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah, who had precipitated the crises with their demand that President Barack Obama gut his 3-year-old health care law.

Other Republicans who repeatedly had warned the two about their quixotic move took little pleasure in saying "I-told-you-so." The final deal hardly nicked the health care law, while the shutdown and near default left the GOP reeling.

"He's the one who got us into this. He had no strategy. And it caused us to waste 16 days and get ourselves killed in the polls," Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said of Cruz. "All for a guy who was fraudulent from the start."

With a heavy dose of gallows humor, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Republicans' poll "numbers have gone down, Obamacare's somehow mysteriously have gone up. And other than that, this has been great."

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[Hutzpa]

1. The money quote

"All for a guy who was fraudulent from the start."

ding, ding annnnd here we go folks the beginning of round one, he throws a right, and another.....

[Cirque du So-What]

2. If it's a 'mystery' to Graham

then he's even more obtuse than I realized.

[Purveyor]

3. He has been relatively quiet as of late. Wonder "what up with that?"

[Cirque du So-What]

4. Consider the antics of his ideological romper-room playmates

If you were Lindsey Graham, would you want to be reminding people of the (R) after your name?

[bemildred]

5. Neither, it is the politics of destruction and disruption.

An old story, but it didn't work so good this time, and THAT is a very good thing.