Posted on 03/16/2016 3:07:44 PM PDT by RightFighter
Ted Cruz said that he won't humble himself before Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to smooth over the rough relationship he has developed with colleagues.
"[Cruz] tells me he won't go 'on bended knee, with my hat in hand' to Mitch McConnell to unify GOP against [Trump]," FOX News's James Rosen tweeted Wednesday morning.
CNN published a report Tuesday quoting Sens. John Cornyn, John Thune and Orrin Hatch as saying that Cruz should work to repair his Senate ties, and that he has work to do to earn the goodwill of his cohorts.
"I think he's got some bridges to build here," said Sen. John Thune, the No. 3 Senate Republican. "I think it would be helpful obviously for him -- if he thinks he is going to be the guy or wants to be the guy -- to come back here to mend some of those fences that he tore down when he was here."
"That was not proper as you know, and I raised hell about it," Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the longest-serving Senate Republican, said of Cruz's criticism of McConnell. "I'm a great believer of repentance and changing, and I think there's a gradual change there that I'm noticing, which is good."
Hatch also had this to say of Cruz: "It's always helpful when you admit you're wrong." Cruz has rankled his fellow senators with his behavior and procedural tactics, prominently during a funding battle over Obamacare in 2013. But his most pointed disagreement with McConnell came last summer, when Cruz all but called the majority leader a liar from the Senate floor. Such antagonism has created a wide rift between the Texas senator, who prides himself on his opposition to "the Washington cartel", and Senate Republicans.
While Cruz might not have mended fences with the Senate GOP just yet, he lauded the man who was viewed as the party establishment's standardbearer, Sen. Marco Rubio, Tuesday night.
"Marco's story, his passion, inspires me. Marco can paint a picture, can weave a tapestry of the promise of America like no one else. And his presidential campaign inspired millions," Cruz said. "To those who supported Marco, who worked so hard, we welcome you with open arms."
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I’m sure they’ll be lining up to admit they were wrong.
F THEM!
Cruz will do whatever his big donors tell him to do.
Those mopes are beginning to realize that they’re no longer going to be relevant after the election.
I thought the story would end with Canadian lips meeting turtle butt. Guess I was wrong. For the time being.
GO CRUZ
Hello gridlock!
TRUE DAT!
You don’t think his big donors have told him to kiss McConnell’s ring?
McConnell says: “Here’s my ring Ted. I’m waiting for you to kiss it, in front of all these cameras.”
Methinks Mitch McConnell needs to apologize to Cruz and Republican voters.
Good. Cruz was right. McConnell is the one who should apologize.
“Methinks Mitch McConnell needs to apologize to Cruz and Republican voters.”
Yes!
The RNC owes ME an apology.
No. Because Cruz has not kissed McConnells ring.
Well , then I guess those big doners told him not to go on blended knee .
Robert Mercer is a conservative who doesn’t give money to democrats.
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