[Servant of the Cross]

They succeeded in one crucial respect: Everyone is talking about Obamacare. And the more it gets talked about, the clearer its flaws are to an already skeptical public.

Even Stephen Hayes must grudgingly acknowledge this. And what a success ... as well as a crucial one! Therefore, Stephen, Senator Cruz does deserve three cheers! This is leadership. And left to his own devices, McConnell would have NEVER achieved this crucial success! Here's how Senator Cruz described this current GOP "leadership" in the U.S. Senate on Rush ......

I will tell you the single biggest surprise in arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here. I mean, we don't even talk about how to win a fight. There's no discussion. We talk about, "Hey, let's get a show vote so we can go tell our constituents we're doing something." But I promise you, Rush, if you had to sit through one Senate lunch, you'd be in therapy for a month ... but they've been here a long time, and they're beaten down, and they don't believe we can win. They don't believe it can happen, and the answer they say on every issue is, "No, we can't do it. We can't do it."

Stephen Hayes and the GOPe apologists never. Senator Ted Cruz forever.

[JediJones]

It’s very similar to what Gingrich has said, that the Republicans in Washington never want to do anything hard. Cruz has the same fight in him that led Gingrich to the top of the heap.