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Republicans Voted For Government Shutdown, Blamed Ted Cruz (VIDEO)
The MSNBC host compared the current fight in the Senate to the Republicans shutting down the government in 1995. Maddow pointed out that Americans blamed Republicans, rather than Bill Clinton, for the shutdown by "huge margins" and that Clinton was reelected the next year.
She said that Republicans are doing the same thing now, except they are trying to pin blame for the situation on Ted Cruz. Maddow continued, "And it is kind of a brilliant idea, because that guy sort of wants to be blamed."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/26/rachel-maddow-ted-cruz-government-shutdown_n_3995129.html?utm_hp_ref=media
She sure gets the facts right.