Fox News Turns on Ted Cruz and Destroys His Plan To Defund Obamacare

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Fox News Turns on Ted Cruz and Destroys His Plan To Defund Obamacare

by Jason Easley at Politicus USA

http://www.politicususa.com/2013/09/22/fox-news-turns-ted-cruz-destroys-plan-defund-obamacare.html

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Just to make sure that every Republican watching, got the message that Fox News isn’t supporting Cruz, Wallace followed up the interview with a round table where the piling on continued.

Amy Walter of The Cook Report said, “The person — the polls going back, really, since the beginning of this year when we asked about who do you think is compromising, who do you think is not compromising, Republicans are overwhelmingly seen as non-compromising, the president is seen as much more conciliatory. For what — that’s what the polls have been showing for a while, so it’s pretty clear in that sense. The other piece is that Republicans are starting off at a much lower point (ph) in terms of approval rating. The president’s approval rating is no great shape, but it’s much better than where the Republicans sit right now. But there is one thing I do want to bring up, it’s the fact that Republicans right now, it’s pretty clear, there is no strategy, there is no end game to where this goes. Obviously, you talked with Ted Cruz, made that point clear.”

Karl Rove joined in, “Well, because this was a strategy laid out by Mike Lee and Ted Cruz without any consultation by — with their colleagues. Mike Lee of Utah lays it out on July 9th without having ever brought it up at the Thursday meeting and the senators to say we’ve got an idea. I would suspect today, with all due respect to Mike, junior Senator from Texas, I suspect this is the first time that the endgame was described to any Republican senator. They had to tune in to listen to you to find out what Ted’s next step was in the strategy. And look, you cannot build a congressional majority in either party for any kind of action, unless you’re treating your colleagues with some or certain amount of respect and saying, hey, what do you think of my idea, and instead, they have dictated to their colleagues through the media, and through public statements, and not consulted them about this strategy at all.

I do want to (inaudible) one small thing that Senator Cruz said. He said, Republicans enjoy an advantage on health care in “The Wall Street Journal” poll this week. I wish it were true. The advantage in “The Wall Street Journal” poll was Americans favorite Democrats, trust Democrats more on health care, 37 to 29. Now, the bad news for the Democrats is, this is a historic low number for them. But Republicans don’t have an advantage on it, at the time of the 19 — the 2010 elections it was 42-32, so they had a ten point advantage now, they are — they’ve got an eight point advantage.”



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1. Cruz is a national joke

Only in Texas could this guy get elected.

[brer cat]

2. Welcome to DU.

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3. Yes. Welcome to the DU.

[dem in texas]

4. Sad but true

They can't be crazy enough for Texas republicans, look who they elected, Ted Cruz, Rick Perry, Louie Gohmert, Steve Stockman and that is only at the Congress level. Drill down into state and local politics and they get even crazier.

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5. Welcome to DU and I also agree with you!