Ted Cruz Is Making Life Miserable For House Republicans

Business Insider ^ | Sept 17, 2013 | By JOSH BARRO

[Jim Robinson]

For the last few weeks, House Speaker John Boehner has been trying to find a way to convince his caucus to vote for a bill that keeps the government open after Sept. 30 without picking a fight over Obamacare. But a minority of his caucus has been insisting on defunding Obamacare, egged on by outside conservative groups and a handful of far-right Republican Senators, most importantly Ted Cruz (Texas). This has been pretty annoying for a lot of House Republican members and staff. Jonathan Strong and Andrew Stiles of National Review got an anecdote out of a closed Republican Study Committee meeting yesterday:

Max Pappas, an aide to Texas senator Ted Cruz who was on hand, rose to argue that in the event the House and President Obama were at odds when government funding expired, Republicans could pass a bill to fund the troops and other core priorities. At that point, a woman rose, identifying herself as a staffer to a Texas Republican. Pappas, she said, was “not dealing in reality” and making everyone else’s life difficult. The staffer, whom two GOP sources identified as working for Representative John Culberson of Texas, went on to decry Cruz for holding events in Culberson’s district and telling his constituents that defunding Obamacare would be “easy.”

This is a key aspect of the Cruz-driven defund Obamacare push. With in the Senate, Cruz is essentially irrelevant. Any budget deal that comes out of there will be struck between majority Democrats and a number of more practically-minded Republicans, like Sen. John McCain (Ariz.). [ROFLOL!]

[potlatch]

Lol, this will give you a laugh;

http://www.themuse.tv/hub/iris-apfel-the-worlds-oldest-living-teenager/

[TheOldLady]

Sweet woman. It seems as if everyone likes her.

She looks very good in the clothing and accessories she has chosen.

And I have the same attitude about my age.

I’ll be 67 in December, and I wouldn’t dream of shaving off a minute.

[potlatch]

I agree with you, at 92 years of age that woman is enjoying life to the fullest!

Ahh, you’re a Christmas month child.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Someone has to make them pay for sucking so bad.

And Cruz now has them sucking less. So heat works.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— The GOP is in decent shape to make meaningful gains in the Senate and maybe the House in 2014.-—

More RINOs?

Continue the 20-year-long strategic retreat?

No thanks.

[VerySadAmerican]

Schumer invited the rinos to join the “other team”. He said by doing so they could make the right wing irrelevant.

[Absolutely Nobama]

I’d use my real name, Alan Levy, but I’m stuck with the cheesy handle I picked out.....

Well said, FRiend.

[darrellmaurina]

Thanks, Alan... but your handle is pretty good and not cheesy at all.

At least until President Obama is out of office.

Maybe the moderators will let you change to AbsolutelyNoHillary if she becomes the Democratic nominee in 2016? ;-) (Of course hopefully that name will be obsolete in November 2016 — I don't want to think about what it would be like to have a second President Clinton.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

The biggest potential problem for us is that the media is owned by the left. It won't be "Obama shut down the gov, shame on him and his party." Rather, the meme will be "mean old Ted Cruz wants to hold granny hostage for the sake of political posturing." People are stupid, and they'll swallow it whole.

That said, Obama and crew (particularly his RINO buddies) has a habit of putting their foot in their respective mouths whenever they don't get their way, so used are they to getting whatever they want. If Cruz is very vocal on as many sources of news as possible (and all of us little people follow suite via whatever stump we have), articulating his own position while calling attention to the childish reaction Obama is sure to have, this could be a major catalyst to give us some momentum. The more Obama tantrums (and he will, if the situation goes on), the more people will begin to see through the leftist media smokescreen.

Obama's been like Teflon his entire reign -- nothing sticks to him, not even Benghazi had much effect. His luck has to run out and if we play our cards right, if Cruz wins such a victory as this, I'd say his chances in 2016 are higher than anyone else -- Hilldabeast included.

With God's help.