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Rep. Peter King thinks Republicans in the House could have bargained for much more than they're getting in a pending Senate deal, if only the House had kept the government open in September and focused on negotiations over the federal debt limit.
"Instead we look like the crazies," King, a Republican from Long Island, told me this afternoon from Washington. "Shutting down the government, throwing barricades against the White House, and having Ted Cruz reading Dr. Seuss, this is like the theater of the absurd. Except that it's serious."
"[Cruz] is going to be coming back, rewriting history, saying, 'We were on the verge of victory back in October, and we could have won if we'd just stayed in there another week.' And he's going to have phone calls being made, and he's going to have town hall meetings. And he's going to have all those support groups out there, threatening to downgrade people on their scorecards and all that stuff."
To King, the fault doesn't lie broadly with Congress, but falls squarely on Cruz and his 30 or 40 "acolytes," who put pressure on other Republicans.
And it begins, the GOP distancing themselves from Cruz and his little band of Tea Party miscreants. And they better be vocal about it, because King is probably right, Cruz is such a great huckster of the ignorant that he will undoubtedly try for a repeat in January.
Rep. Peter King thinks Republicans in the House could have bargained for much more than they're getting in a pending Senate deal, if only the House had kept the government open in September and focused on negotiations over the federal debt limit.
"Instead we look like the crazies," King, a Republican from Long Island, told me this afternoon from Washington. "Shutting down the government, throwing barricades against the White House, and having Ted Cruz reading Dr. Seuss, this is like the theater of the absurd. Except that it's serious."
"[Cruz] is going to be coming back, rewriting history, saying, 'We were on the verge of victory back in October, and we could have won if we'd just stayed in there another week.' And he's going to have phone calls being made, and he's going to have town hall meetings. And he's going to have all those support groups out there, threatening to downgrade people on their scorecards and all that stuff."
To King, the fault doesn't lie broadly with Congress, but falls squarely on Cruz and his 30 or 40 "acolytes," who put pressure on other Republicans.
And it begins, the GOP distancing themselves from Cruz and his little band of Tea Party miscreants. And they better be vocal about it, because King is probably right, Cruz is such a great huckster of the ignorant that he will undoubtedly try for a repeat in January.
King has already announced that he is running for President in 2016.
Of coarse he has to marginalize his top competition.
Good luck like McCain and Romney at getting the Conservative vote
Rep. Peter King thinks Republicans in the House could have bargained for much more than they're getting in a pending Senate deal, if only the House had kept the government open in September and focused on negotiations over the federal debt limit.
"Instead we look like the crazies," King, a Republican from Long Island, told me this afternoon from Washington. "Shutting down the government, throwing barricades against the White House, and having Ted Cruz reading Dr. Seuss, this is like the theater of the absurd. Except that it's serious."
"[Cruz] is going to be coming back, rewriting history, saying, 'We were on the verge of victory back in October, and we could have won if we'd just stayed in there another week.' And he's going to have phone calls being made, and he's going to have town hall meetings. And he's going to have all those support groups out there, threatening to downgrade people on their scorecards and all that stuff."
To King, the fault doesn't lie broadly with Congress, but falls squarely on Cruz and his 30 or 40 "acolytes," who put pressure on other Republicans.
And it begins, the GOP distancing themselves from Cruz and his little band of Tea Party miscreants. And they better be vocal about it, because King is probably right, Cruz is such a great huckster of the ignorant that he will undoubtedly try for a repeat in January.
As a Democrat I would much rather run against a Ted Cruz led GOP.
Go ahead! Declare a war against the TP...you will lose...hell you are already losing...every election there are less and less RINO's like King,McCain and Graham and more TP people like Cruz,Lee and Paul.
LOL! You guys got nothing! You do realize that, right? You didn't get a single thing for all of your bluster. Nada. Not. A. Thing. And yet you continue to run around declaring victory. It's hilarious.
And it proves that King is absolutely right. You come off looking like a bunch of crazies because that's precisely what you are. How considerate of Cruz to make sure the country got a real good, up close look them being crazy over these last three weeks.
If you think that will translate into more lunatics being elected, I won't burst your crazy little bubble. As Winter_Sucks points out, the more the nuts are out there front and center, the better it is for the Democrats.
El Cubano de Canada is a nut job... see you always have one - I'll listen to Mr Raul Labardor-IDAHO. at least listen- if you need the hispanic combination for the politcal salad.
yet you continue to run around declaring victory. It's hilarious.
The victory is within the party. A party that is divided.
The masks were pulled off those just claiming to be Conservative.
2014 is going to be brutal for them in the primaries.
Regardless of what happens in the general, the Republican party will fundamentally change back to more Conservative, as it was before the Progressive Era.
The Tea Party (and its uneducated, ignorant, and deluded members) is a poison in the USA. They just cost the economy billions of dollars over the past few weeks for NOTHING. I'm glad that the sane and responsible members of the GOP are trying to distance themselves from Cruz and his cronies. They realize that Cruz is leading the already damaged GOP right down the drain. The GOP is in civil war, and all the Dems have to do is sit back and watch the freak show unfold.
I do have to laugh though because the Teabaggers just keep on isolating more and more people from their platform with every passing day it seems.They literally are the movement of old white men who will die off eventually. Demographics are changing, and the current GOP is doomed as long as the TP is here (just wait until the GOP loses Texas). They'll never win a national election in the foreseeable future, but I guess they're just too stupid to figure that out at this point in time. All Hillary has to do is decide that she'll run and she's got the job in 2016.
This show establishment Republicans and Democrats are not much different. Sure, one with R and one with D, got voted for law that applied to every American, but not apply to the one who vote this into law.
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