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Posted on 01/27/2014 8:48:13 AM PST by SoConPubbie
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, insisted Sunday that last year's government shutdown was not his or the Republican Party's fault — and skillfully sidestepped questions about his presidential aspirations.
Many key Republicans have blamed Cruz for leading the shutdown, but in an appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation," he placed the blame squarely on President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
"I think it was a mistake that President Obama and the Democrats shut the government down this fall," Cruz told host Bob Schieffer. "The reason they did so is that President Obama dug in and said he wouldn't compromise and he wouldn't negotiate."
When Schieffer pushed, asking if Cruz would back another shutdown, he said he "didn't threaten to shut down the government the last time. I don't think we should ever shut down the government."
Last fall, Cruz and fellow tea party conservatives said they would refuse to approve government spending unless the bill eliminated funding for Obamacare. But after the government had been shut down for two weeks, Republicans approved a bill that did not change Obamacare-related spending.
Meanwhile, the Texas senator says that the fight against Obamacare was the right one. He said Obama should use this week's State of the Union address not just to say he's sorry about the healthcare reform program's problems, but do something about it.
"If you're really sorry, you do something to fix the problem," said Cruz. "He says he's sorry, but he doesn't fix the problems."
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It was a Rat engineered shutdown. I wish the republicans would have supported Senators Cruz and Lee in trying to stop this mess instead of attacking them for what they did.
Realize that millions of Americans are going to have their pay cut of just over 25%. Millions are loosing the Health Insurance. Millions are loosing their doctors and their hospitals.
The Progressive Democrats are spending us into oblivion. The sequester (Obama's idea) was absolutely right (even though he reversed himself later).
bump
Ditch Mitch.
Keep fighting!
Watched the last part of this interview. Wanted to punch Bob Schieffer in the snoot. Every time Cruz wanted to make a point, he was cut off. I’ll bet CBS doesn’t cut off any liberal guests.
We sure were!! Because we smoked out all the con-artists who call themselves republicans.
They DO NOT like that the people have been made aware of their long used “vote for cloture but against the bill” scheme.
McConnell, Cornyn, Collins, Cochran, Graham and Alexander voted against Cruz and with the democrats and can be removed this year.
Enzi and Roberts had the good sense to vote with Cruz.
How dare Ted Cruz stand up and fight back!
That causes friction with the democrats. And it makes them mad at us.
We just can’t have that in Washington.
I would put a sarc tag but sadly there are many stupid republicans out there who believe that crap.
The only thing that I ever want to hear Obama say is :”Effective immediately, I RESIGN.”
Not another word needs to be uttered by this Reprobate.
McConnell had plenty of help from John Cornyn, Senate Minority Whip.
So true
Check out the part CBS cut where Ted calls out BHO.
They sensored Cruz when he brought up the IRS and Obamas abuse of power.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3116102/posts
Obama is a thug dictator.
Yup.
What I’ve learned during this shameful episode is that the crony capitalists and their compromised republicans don’t want the federal gravy train turned off either.
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