Posted on 11/24/2014 11:51:20 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) needs to stop defending the disastrous 2013 shutdown. The stunt he inspired was, for all but the Kool-Aid drinkers, a low point in recent Republican history. It plunged the party into a slump and allowed the president to divert attention from the looming Obamacare debacle. It was only after the shutdown ended by complete surrender that Republicans and the media could focus on the horrible Obamacare rollout.
The shutdown was so harmful that virtually no conservative not even Cruz recommends a repeat over the presidents executive order on immigration. So why is Cruz still belaboring the point? On Fox News Sunday, there was this exchange on GOP remedies in response to the presidents executive action:
CHRIS WALLACE: But youre willing to shut down departments and youre willing to take the backlash? I mean, it didnt work very well with Obamacare, sir.
CRUZ: Well, let me point on you, you notice, at the time, you and a lot of folks in the press said what a disaster it was to stand up and fight on Obamacare. That it was going to cost Republicans the majority. It was going to cost seats.
Let me point out, we just had an historic election where we won. Its going to end up being nine seats in the Senate. We retired Harry Reid. Weve got the biggest majority in the House since the 1920s. And the number one issue that candidates campaigned on was Obamacare.
Now, listen, it was a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown, but it was not a mistake for Republicans to stand up and fight on Obamacare....
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Why should we be taking advice from the enemy?
Tubeworm Rubin can go suck the root man.
Rubin is all for open borders except when it comes to Israel.
I’m not sure there’s anything to learn.
He learned (and we learned), that he was right.
Your tribe, the same old crap that's helped get us into this mess.
Jennifer Rubin learned nothing from the shutdown.....idiot.
I hate what conservatism has done in the last year. Yeah. That’s it.
They learned what happens when the ebt is down for 1 day....in 1 county
Its not about who shuts down the government, it’s about who gets blamed.
Cruz is absolutely correct.
The House passed spending bills, and Harry Reid and Obama shut down the government
Why is a federal government shutdown “disastrous”. IIRC, the sun still came up and went down, WWII vets still went to their memorial, and the airlines still flew.
This is the Romney-Rove-Bush Palinization of Sen. Cruz.
Have the three backstabbers not hurt
and killed enough already?
FUJR!! Go, Cruz, GO!!
Why should we be concerned about a shut down? If it affects election results in 2016 in the same way as this year, I say shutter as much government as possible for as long as possible. It’s proven winning strategy, but RINOs are too stupid to recognize it.
Harry Reid and Obama were responsible for the so-called government shutdown, NOT Ted Cruz.
Sen. Cruz and the other Republicans were burning the midnight oil trying to avert a shutdown; Harry Reid and Obama were nowhere to be found.
Besides, 83% of the government remained open during the so-called shutdown.
As Rush said, if the shutdown was such a disaster for the GOP, then how did they pull off a nationwide GOP wave on November 4th?
WHO WON THE MID-TERMS?
Why Ms. Rubin? Because of the Republican "wave?"
Jennifer, did you see the election results two weeks ago?
5.56mm
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