Posted on 10/20/2013 6:15:17 PM PDT by markomalley
On Sunday, ABC’s Jonathan Karl went after Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) for his strategy during the government shutdown, complaining: “People hated this shutdown, they hated this impasse and this was seen as the Ted Cruz shutdown. You more than any single individual were seen as the one that triggered this crisis to begin with.” When Cruz began to answer, Karl interrupted, “We're talking about public opinion nationally.” When Cruz began to answer again, Karl jumped in again: “But there never would have been a shutdown if you hadn't gone with the strategy of saying we're not even going to fund the government for six weeks unless we can defund Obamacare.”
But Karl wasn’t done. He then asked Cruz, “How much do your colleagues just despise you right now on the floor? I mean, I hear some really strong language from your own fellow Republican senators.”
After finishing his interview with Cruz, Karl then went to former Florida Governor Jeb Bush to get him to bash Cruz: “And this started with Republicans, mostly in the House, saying that they wanted to gut ObamaCare and they were willing to not fund the government until that happened. I mean, they changed their position a little bit as it went along. But I mean, how badly are Republicans hurt by all this? It started with their strategy…. I just spoke to Ted Cruz and he was the guy who said, hey, let's not agree to a funding resolution unless ObamaCare is defunded. That was the strategy that really kicked it off and he told me that he will now do anything he can to stop ObamaCare and he does not rule out pushing to the brink once again. What would your message be to Ted Cruz?”
ABC then cut to the Pandacam, with Martha Raddatz intoning, “check out the PandaCam. With the government back open, the National Zoo's live look at its most popular resident is back online.”
We need more AMERICANS like Ted Cruz.
I wholeheartedly agree. And we need fewer non-Americans and anti-Americans making laws and bureaucratic decisions.
For one reason only, to take the fight to them!
Just like Sarah Palin took the fight to Katie Couric.
Actually, they are insanely jealous of him.
He is so far not encumbered with skeletons in the closet that leave him open to blackmail like much of Congress and his ambitions seem to run towards higher office as opposed to personal enrichment.
This allows him the freedom to speak the truth and he actually seems to enjoy getting in his enemies face to speak the truth.
This allows him to nullify Democrats and beat them at their own games.
Cruz is the new Joe McCarthy and the domestic communists are out to destroy him
They got lucky because they controlled the message and demonized McCarthy, but will have no such luck with Cruz
And the CPUSA is terrified, because payback is coming, and its going to be fast, brutal, and merciless
Yeah, Boner sends a CR with no funding for obamacare because he was ambushed and over ran by 40 members of the house. He sent CR and CR and the republicans kept refusing to even vote on them. The government shuts down and it’s Ted Cruz’s fault. All the rinos are just like the democrats. They scream “We’re victims! You’re not gonna’ hold that against us, are you?” They would sacrifice their own children to stay in office. As it is they’re sacrificing their grandchildren’s futures.
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