Posted on 08/01/2013 9:21:14 AM PDT by Mozilla
After several days of intense intraparty fighting over whether to threaten government shutdown over Obamacare funding, Ted Cruz backed away from some inflammatory rhetoric on Laura Ingraham’s radio show Wednesday afternoon, saying he had never used the term “surrender caucus” and had not “said an ill word about” his fellow legislators.
Ingraham questioned Cruz’s pugnacious strategy of calling out his members, worrying it would lead to a GOP “civil war.”
“If it ends up looking like these cowboys are coming in threatening to shut [the government] down, and they’re calling out people like Tom Coburn, committed legislators,” Ingraham said, “then you’re starting this kind of needless intraparty fight.”
“I have not said an ill word about any of my caucus,” Cruz objected.
“What about the surrender caucus? That’s pretty nasty.”
“I did not say that about anybody,” Cruz said. (Byron York at the Washington Examiner found an instance of Cruz using the term on Sean Hannity’s show last week.)
“Well, that’s your chief of staff,” Ingraham said. “He was speaking as your proxy, was he not?”
“He actually was not,” Cruz said. “He did that on his own, and I didn’t know about it. I don’t agree with it. I have not said an ill-word about any of my colleagues. They have used some pretty nasty language about me. But my approach is not to reciprocate, and I don’t intend to. I think Tom Coburn is a good man, and he’s entitled to his own view on what a good strategy is.”
This is the second instance today of a conservative senator backing away from the brink, after Rand Paul offered Chris Christie a truce this morning.
Listen to the clip below, via Laura Ingraham at the link.
By then, I was no longer listening to her regularly. She had gone off the rails before that.
I think it’s a mistake to talk just about a shut down without explaing how bad the bill is. The issue is too abstract right now. Much better to break down the obamacare debate into twitter sized bites for the low info voters. There is plenty of bad stuff in the law the Dems won’t want to deal with right now. Only an opposition political party could force them to do that. Too bad we don’t have one right now.
To be fair, it's pretty accurate.
(I wish I had thought of it — LOL.)
We shouldn’t be trying to force the RINOs to turn into conservatives, we should instead show up at their town halls and appeal to their vanity and beg them join the Democrats where they belong.
Then we can run real conservatives against them.
Why? All the House would have to do is pass its payment of the bills in pieces, leave O’Care out of the funding loop and go home.
They, the GOP could stand in front of every camera around and say, we paid the bills, we now leave it up to the Senate and the President to pass or veto.
And let it ride from there....We’re already ~$2T in the hold every year; but you don’t hear that anymore either.
Yeah, I know, I’m dreaming.
That's how you'd do it. But we've got Boehner and McConnell. I hope Cruz and Lee keep fighting to get this done, and maybe we can even embarrass the surrender caucus into fighting with them, but I am not optimistic.
” Ingraham questioned Cruz’s pugnacious strategy of calling out his members, worrying it would lead to a GOP “civil war.” “
The only thing that might save the GOP from aiding in the destruction of this country, would BE a civil war in the GOP!
We need a civil war in the GOP like no tommorrow, and FAST!
He's the master of being first on one side of the fence, then on the other side, sometimes on each side at the same time....but mostly straddling it.
Laura has achieved fame and fortune for being Bill's designated fence-sitter on Fridays and when he takes time off here and there. So she's not going to stray too far off his plantation and the fence that surrounds it....and her.
Leni
“Surrender caucus” should stand. I guess it would be confusing to call them “surrender monkeys” instead, since the French already own that title.
It worked and the last time anyone in the gop tried education was during Reagan... the gop did not talk over the media and to the American people in 1996 and Mark Levin proved that we did not get pummeled in 1996... in fact... clinton was losing support amongst dims and Mark read a half dozen articles in liberal newspapers stating so.
LLS
“Ingraham is GOP-E all the way-—remember when she and Ann Coulter were yucking it together up while attacking Sarah Palin?”
Ingraham also once ranted about those who didn’t increase the debt ceiling in 2011. She had then congressman Allen West on the defend himself when he voted for it.
Personally I don’t get to hear Laura much anymore. I don’t have access to a feed or station running her show. I did feel though that this article was rather worthy of posting.
It’s not a GOP-e civil war. It’s king of the mountain, and RINOs are getting pushed off by solid TEA in about 80% of matchups.
Clearing our streets of GOP-e hookers and their johns isn’t war, it’s constitutional law enforcement.
” Clearing our streets of GOP-e hookers and their johns isn’t war, it’s constitutional law enforcement.”
I agree, but if we fail to derail amnesty, we lose it all.
Shorthand for ‘cheese-eating surrender monkey caucus’.
If 0dumbo vetoed a bill that funded the rest of the gov’t but NOT obamacare
then I think it would be reasonable for Congress to over ride his veto.
Everyday more comes out on this piece of crap and the people as shown in polls do not want obamacare.
just today the state of Georgia asked to be exempt from it.
Even the members of congress are asking to be exempt from it. WHO wants it?
So I say, DEFUND it and let 0dumbo veto it
THANK YOU
that is as good a summary as I have seen
The people who are out there, including many GOP, saying what lee Cruz and Paul want to do is defund the entire gov’t either don’t have the facts OR they are deliberately misleading people
When the senate doesn’t go along with the House bill to fund everything BUT obamacare the people will have had enough
and I believe and hope burn up the lines towers and cloud to tell the senators to stop obamacare NOW
Personally I don’t get to hear Laura much anymore. I don’t have access to a feed or station running her show. I did feel though that this article was rather worthy of posting.To me her radio voice/demeanor is like fingernails on a chalkboard and so are her opinions on anything conservative.
You don't need to apologize to any one(least of all me) for posting whatever you want...in fact keep it up.
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