Posted on 10/10/2013 5:42:14 PM PDT by Whenifhow
Just as Republican leaders were exiting their meeting with President Obama at the White House Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was entering CNN's Crossfire, where he had to contend with Van Jones and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), without too much help from Newt Gingrich. Now that House Republicans are prepared to move forward with a short-term debt deal that doesn't touch the Affordable Care Act, Jones asked Cruz, "Do you feel like you owe your party an apology?"
Jones noted that the Republican Party has become incredibly unpopular under Cruz's "leadership," saying that since the Texas senator entered office in January he's become "the most prominent Republican in this town." After stressing that "we're all friends here," Jones asked Cruz:
"Do you feel like you owe your party an apology? Listen, you have people who believed in you, they believed that you were somehow going to be able to defund Obamacare, they believed the strategy of shutdown might have a chance. They followed you into a ditch. And now, there's obviously there's no chance Obamacare will be defunded and we're on the brink of a horrific default. Do you think that in the reflection of your own heart, you might say, 'You know what? I'm a new kid here, I think I owe you an apology'?" Cruz laughed at first before getting more serious and asking some questions of his own. "I know you desperately want to change the topic from Obamacare," he said. "Democrats in this town do not want to discuss Obamacare. Why? Because it isn't working." He then turned to focus on negative polling numbers for President Obama and Democrats, crediting House Republicans who are "listening to the millions of Americans who are losing their jobs, who are being pushed into part-time work, who are facing skyrocketing health care."
When Sen. Whitehouse got a chance to chime in, he called the "notion that Obamacare is a failure" a "product of right-wing histrionics." He told stories about how well he believes the exchanges are going so far in his home state.
"The Republican Party decided that Obamacare was going to be a failure early on, before Obamacare was even decided," Whitehouse said. "It was a political choice to pull all support for anything this president wanted to do. Now they have to live with it, so they have to maintain the story line. But I have to tell you Senator Cruz, I don't see it at home, I don't believe it."
Cruz is supremely confident, and knows that he can handle any situation. Don’t you agree? Bob
It was Budgeted for $95 Million.
It’s within the margin of error.
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It has a ring to it.
You gotta love Senator Cruz!
I know I do!
It has a ring to it.
Very telling isn’t it? I believe this “shutdown” is exposing whose side the people are in. Obama or the American People.
“The only reason he was forced out of his position in the Hussein Administration is that he was honest enough to admit it.”
That is incorrect. He did his best to hide that factoid.
Give credit where credit is due, Glenn Beck exposed this pos when he was still on Fox. The heat got so bad that pos Jones was forced out.
He didn’t give any ‘honest’ information to anyone, other than barry’s inner circle, so it was a selling point to them.
Cruz has proven he can handle anyone in any venue. Unfortunately, I wouldn’t trust 96.44% of Republicans to handle a guest appearance on Sesame Street.
“My question would be, what was Cruz doing on Crossfire in the first place?”
YUp, IMO, nothing good can come of it. You are not going to change the minds of the idiots that watch that crap! FU CNN! ...and FU Van Jones!
That’s a disturbing surprise, unless Newt belongs to the old school definition of what a republican is. Newt may not want to share. or yield the spotlight of being the go to man for red state expression.
I only caught a few minutes of it, but Newt said several times when the dems tried to make it sound like this shut down was a big deal, that it was the 18th time this has happened in recent history, but the dems just ignored him..
LOL I’m sure that Ted Cruz is quaking in his boots. NOT.
Have you seen any ratings for Crossfire..?
Very true. It may be only 90% who can’t explain conservatism at a child’s level, though. Bob
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