you just gotta love it. Rep. Peter King hopes healthcare repeal efforts expose Cruz as 'a fraud'

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Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said he hopes Friday's House vote to keep the government running while defunding "Obamacare" will expose Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz as "a fraud" and that "he'll no longer have any influence in the Republican Party."

The Tea Party-backed Cruz spent much of the summer drumming up pressure on fellow Republicans to refuse to fund the government unless the Affordable Care Act was also defunded at the same time. The campaign helped Cruz build a national profile among conservative activists who badly want to repeal President Barack Obama's landmark legislation.

But as the House passed legislation to do just that, some Republicans turned their ire not toward opposed Democrats, but toward the Texas firebrand.

"Today's vote is definitely a signal that we have to take a more realistic and practical approaches, that we can't be going off on these false missions that Ted Cruz wants us to go on," King told reporters before the bill passed by a partisan 230-189 vote.

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/20/20600579-rep-king-hopes-healthcare-repeal-efforts-expose-cruz-as-a-fraud?lite

[Thinkingabout]

1. This is good, perhaps some of the experience will wake up and stop Crappy Cruz. As long as

Cruz has an audience he will continue to perform, leave the area when he speaks and he will fade into the sunset. He is an unimportant bench warmer. Maybe the GOP is feeling heat in the 2014 election.

[UTUSN]

2. So how did KING vote? n/t

[gopiscrap]

3. those two deserve each other. Cruz is batshit crazy

and King should be in jail.

[customerserviceguy]

4. They both want the Rethug presidential nomination

This means no more than that pissing match between Rand Paul and Chris Christie a couple of months ago. Peter King thinks he has a shot at it, and is taking an opportunity to muscle Cruz out of the way, making himself look more fearsome in the process.

It's just the way the clown car is currently lurching down the road at this point in time, it means nothing as far as what is really going to happen to get the budget and debt ceiling problems actually fixed.

[TacoD]

5. It's big-government right-winger vs small-government right-winger. (nt)