You maybe on the wrong site FRiend, Ted Cruz had nothing to due with the National Parks being closed. That was Obama, I mean blocking the WW2 Memorial, the overlook to Mt Rushmore?? I guess standing on your principles is not allowed, I blame the GOPe for caving and being worried they weren’t going be invited to the cocktail parties.
When you’re advocating closing down the tiny bit of gov’t that is affected by a gov’t shutdown, you bear some responsibility for the consequences. And Cruz almost cost one of our senators his seat. And this is, evidently, the only friend he has in the Senate, btw.
Sen Cruz can claim he stood on his principles all he wants, however, there is this: we were the minority party at the time, and Obama was in the White Hut at the time: There was NO WAY Cruz was going to prevail and he knew it — yet continued his grandstanding. I’m not the biggest Rand Paul fan, but his filibuster had some real results. Cruz’ not at all. Except that Mike Lee had to kiss a lot of fannies to make sure he wasn’t primaried by a Romney who was going to have Huntsman money, besides. And if you don’t know how significant that is, think of the Hatfields and McCoy’s joining forces to get rid of someone.
Nothin’ to do with cocktail parties, trust me.