Tag Archives: Ted Cruz

Source.

From the New York Times: Mr. Cruz and his aides believe he is uniquely suited to galvanize conservatives, pointing to his leadership of the effort to cut off funding for the Affordable Care Act — confrontational, pugnacious, disdainful of President Obama. Mr. Cruz, 42 — a Texan, a born-again Baptist and son of an evangelical preacher — also connects naturally …

Mediate has the recap: In an interview for This Week with George Stephanopoulos, ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jon Karl put a fine point on Cruz’s post-shutdown standing, then twisted it. Karl asked “How much do your colleagues just despise you right now on the floor?” Cruz replied, “There’s an old saying that ‘Politics, it ain’t beanbag.’ And, you …

NBC News reports: Senate leaders said Wednesday that they had reached an agreement to end a protracted government shutdown and avert default on the national debt. “The compromise we reached will provide our economy with the stability it desperately needs,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said shortly after noon on the Senate floor. Congress will now attempt to quickly …

From the editorial board of the Houston Chronicle: Does anyone else miss Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison? We’re not sure how much difference one person could make in the toxic, chaotic, hyperpartisan atmosphere in Washington, but if we could choose just one it would be Hutchison, whose years of service in the Senate were marked by two things sorely lacking in …

His followers are piling on.

USA! USA! Details.

Previous  presidential straw poll winners at the FRC’s hate summit were: Ron Paul, Mike Pence, and Mike Huckabee.  #DoomedByHistory

(Via AmericaBlog)

The National Journal reports: Ted Cruz was interrupted by hecklers at least half-a-dozen times during his Values Voter Summit speech. But if that was intended to get the Texas firebrand down, it surely did not succeed. “I’m actually glad the president’s whole political staff is here instead of doing mischief in the country,” he said a couple outbursts in. “How …

The shirt on the left reads: “Starring Ted ‘Green Eggs’ Cruz, Harry ‘Ping Pong” Reid, and John ‘Mr. Orange’ Boehner.” $20 from Raygun. The shirt on the right is being sold by the Moonie Times. (Tipped by JMG reader Alan)

“Cruz stood on the side and confused people about the fact that every Republican agrees. He said if you don’t agree with my tactic and with the specific structure of my idea, you’re bad. He said if the House would simply pass the bill with defunding he would force the Senate to act. He would lead this grass-roots movement that …

The New York Times reports that senior members of the GOP yesterday furiously argued with Sen. Ted Cruz in a closed-door GOP meeting. Several Senate Republicans — Dan Coats of Indiana, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire — assailed Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who has led the movement to block funding for the health law. …

Homocon billionaire Peter Thiel, who co-founded PayPal and who hosted Ann Coulter in his Manhattan apartment for a GOProud fundraiser, is one of the largest financial backers of Sen. Ted Cruz.  Tech site Valleywag goes off: It’s an odd marriage of interests, the sort Cruz otherwise opposes as a matter of principle: Peter Thiel is a pot-smoking gay man, which …

The Family Research Council today added four more names to next week’s cavalcade of crackpots in Washington, DC, where attendees can attend “breakout sessions that will answer the tough questions on marriage, religious liberty, Obamacare, and standing up for Israel.”