Ted Cruz Insists Role In Government Shutdown Wasn't A Mistake

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) doesn't think he made any mistakes related to the government shutdown, but he can think of things others should regret, he said in remarks aired Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

"I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown,” he told ABC's Jonathan Karl during an interview at the Tortilla Coast restaurant on Capitol Hill, where he had met with fellow conservative lawmakers during the shutdown.

Cruz ended the year insistent in a number of interviews that the government shutdown, which wounded the economy and put many temporarily out of work, was solely the fault of Democrats who refused to make changes to President Barack Obama's signature health care law as demanded by Republicans, including himself.

He said he has no regrets about the shutdown, even though many other GOP lawmakers have said the strategy he pushed -- which failed to defund Obamacare -- was the wrong one. Karl asked him about statements by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who has been increasingly critical of conservative groups that Boehner says helped drive the GOP into its unsuccessful stance during the shutdown.

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1. Juanita Jean had fun mocking Carnival Cruz's comments

http://www.juanitajean.com/2013/12/30/hey-is-this-opposite-day-or-something/

So, Ted Cruz is distancing himself from the whacked out batcrap crazy stuff in the Officially Licensed Ted Cruz Coloring Book.

He admitted that he doesn’t think that Obamacare is “worse than any war,” which is oddly reassuring from a man who never fought in a war.

But listen to the man who is doing a fellowship in Political Stuntery.

“This is a city where it’s all politics all the time, and I’m trying to do my best to not pay attention to the politics, to focus on fixing the problem,” Mr. Cruz said. “I know that’s hard to believe because no one in this town does that. This is a time for people to step up and do the right thing and that’s what I’m trying to do.”

Holy crap in combat boots – the man has Political Whore tattooed on his butt.

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5. The picture is a hoot.

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2. He apparently thinks he is talking to the TP. The rest of the US knows he is full of crap.

He does not show any ability to fix anything, maybe some day soon he will realize Washington did not start until he arrived, was gong before he got there and will be there after his useless butt is gone. What a dip$hit.

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3. Atonic Mild Seizures of the Facial and Cranial areas seems to ellipticate Cruz.

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4. Elliptic-Conversational style of deliberate obscurity.

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6. Atonic Mild Seizures-otherwise know as a Jerk.