Ted Cruz takes swipe at Republican leadership as Senate backs spending bill

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Ted Cruz takes swipe at Republican leadership as Senate backs spending bill

Nicky Woolf and Ben Jacobs in Washington, DC, and agencies
Tuesday 29 September 2015 05.28 BST

Ted Cruz was abandoned by his colleagues Monday night in yet another high-stakes showdown over the federal budget.

With a government shutdown looming, the Senate voted strongly to advance a bipartisan spending bill to keep the federal government open by a vote of 77-19.

The Texas Republican then spoke angrily and at times tearfully for an hour to a near-empty Senate chamber, saying that Republican majority leader Mitch McConnell stripped a provision that would cancel federal funding of Planned Parenthood in exchange for keeping the government open.

Afterwards, Cruz spoke to media organisation outside, including the Guardian. “Republican leadership has abdicated its responsibility to fight for conservative principles, and has handed control of the agenda over to Barack Obama, [Senate minority leader] Harry Reid, and (House minority leader) Nancy Pelosi,” he said.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/29/ted-cruz-criticize-republican-leadership-senate-backs-spending-bill

[COLGATE4]

1. A little cheese with that whine, Ted? nt

[spanone]

2. mr ted needs psychiatric help

[pinboy3niner]

3. Tearfully? What was he thinking?

Everybody knows a Senator can't run for House Speaker.

[TlalocW]

4. I wonder if it hurts

For him to keep his eyebrows arched and his lips thinned - as that's his typical pious I care face - for an hour, or if he's done it so often, it's second nature.

TlalocW