The most entertaining article from this whole debacle:
If Ted Cruz didn’t exist, Democrats would have to invent him
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It is tough to appreciate just how much good Ted Cruz has done the Democrats over these last few weeks.
- He convinced Republicans to shut down the government rather than wait and fight over the debt ceiling, where they would have had more -- and more dangerous -- leverage.
- He splintered the Republican Party such that, from day one, it was clear that the GOP leadership opposed the strategy they were executing, and GOP senators were publicly blasting House Republicans. That also cut the GOP's leverage.
- He made this a fight over defunding Obamacare, which polls showed was a wildly unpopular reason to shut down the government, and which united Democrats against him.
- He shut the government down on Oct. 1, the same day Obamacare began, thus distracting the American people from the law's catastrophic rollout.
- He drove the Republican Party to its lowest levels of popularity ever recorded in polls.
- He actually managed to make Obamacare more popular at a time when, by all rights, the law's extremely troubled launch should've been eroding its standing in the polls.
- The culmination of the strategy, today, is that Republicans are reopening the government and raising the debt ceiling in return for ...nothing.
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He was instrumental in causing a shutdown that:
Cost the country a self inflicted staggering $24 billion.
Furloughed an estimated 800,000 employees but agreed to pay many of them anyway.
Damaged US credibility - the rest of the developed world has been looking on in disbelief. The entire debacle has been a national embarrassment.
The guy is clearly delusional.
In the middle of the shutdown, he and Palin turn up to the veterans second world war Memorial and try to turn it into a tea party rally. Clearly they were not welcome. From the Veterans website “The political agenda put forth by a local organizer in Washington DC was not in alignment with our message. We feel disheartened that some would seek to hijack the narrative for political gain. The core principle is about all Americans honoring Veterans in a peaceful and apolitical manner.”
And after this he still thinks he represents the views of the American people.
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