GOP members grow increasingly hostile towards Cruz - for leading them into shutdown w/o exit plan

[Liberal_in_LA]

GOP members grow increasingly hostile towards Cruz


As the government shutdown continues and blame continues to spread, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is coming under fire once again from his members of his own party.

Following a closed-door lunch meeting Wednesday, Politico reported that senators leaving the meeting, who requested not to be named, bashed Cruz for leading the way into the shutdown without a plan to get out.

“It was very evident to everyone in the room that Cruz doesn’t have a strategy – he never had a strategy, and could never answer a question about what the end-game was,” said one senator who attended the meeting, according to Politico. “I just wish the 35 House members that have bought the snake oil that was sold could witness what was witnessed today at lunch.”

Cruz, who led a 21-hour speech protesting the Affordable Care Act last week, is now calling the situation “Harry Reid’s shutdown.”

In response to the criticism from his fellow Republican senators, Cruz told Politico that “It seems that there is nothing the media likes to cover more than disagreements among Republicans, and apparently some senators are content to fuel those stories with anonymous quotes.”

http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2013/10/03/gop-members-grow-increasingly-hostile-towards-cruz/

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Republicans can't govern THEMSELVES, let alone a nation. nt

[dgibby]

2. And they are all too cowardly to call him out. n/t

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. You Cruz, you lose.

I thought everyone knew that.

[Kablooie]

25. I'll bet he's pleased as punch about all this.

He will be a superhero to the imbecile crowd and that's been his target all along.

I just heard some Repub on the radio talking about how Cruz may be the foundation of a new direction for the Republican party just like Reagan was.

[1StrongBlackMan]

31. Yep ...

cruz has the beck network, and all the beckerheads, behind him.

It looks like were the gop is headed to a full on 3rd-Party rumble ... And that's likely to work out well for Democrats in 2014.

[Rozlee]

37. Reagan was a jerk but I have to give the devil his due.

He came off as affable and disarming, even while he was signing legislation to enable genocide in Central America. Cruz is a flamethrower and is openly malicious and contemptuous of his opponents and even his allies. He's got an ego that's almost Palin-esque and at the end of the day, he'll only please a small base of true believers. But, it won't be any skin off my nose if teabaggers don't figure that out until after they've selected him as their primary candidate for president in 2016.

[warrior1]

4. they own all of this

they enable him and voted with him.

suck on it losers

[seabeyond]

5. like any of these people didnt figure out they might ought to think this thru. they really walked

into it with no thought whatsoever about the day after the shutdown?

right....

blame one guy

they are all that one guy

[The Magistrate]

9. Hear Hear, Ma'am: 'They Are All That One Guy'

[sheshe2]

21. Well said seabeyond.

They all own this lock stock and barrel!

[Grateful for Hope]

39. Good post, seabeyond.

[City Lights]

6. Lemmings headed for a cliff.

What idiots! And don't blame Carnival Cruz for your decisions! You have your own minds, fools! Use them!

[Kber]

7. Please note that they aren't pissed because he was wrong on policy or essential values.

They are upset because he was ineffective.

They can cry me a fucking river.

[Kingofalldems]

8. This might be a GOP trick. Be wary.

[Agnosticsherbet]

10. Ted Cruz's exit plan is a highway to the White House and dominionist tyranny

enacted through black mail on the rest of America. It is a coup d'etat. I suspect he could not come out and say that. Bad for publicity.

[we can do it]

11. Typical thug bullshit, blame everyone but themselves for problems they created.

[Mz Pip]

12. Oh boo fucking hoo

They isn't have to follow him down the rat hole. Now that they did they see that it's full of rats and there isn't a way out without getting bit.

[winter is coming]

13. They were planning on using him as a fall guy all along.

Why else would GOP leaders be looking to a freshman senator for "strategy"?

[tblue37]

17. Also why they ll made so much noise about its being HIS amazing accomplishment. nt

[rdking647]

14. cry me a fucking river

you and your teahaddist allies brought this on your self. i hope you all enjoy the shit sandwich the american people are going to serve you.
the GOP has shown they shouldnt be allowed anywhere near power. ever again

[AAO]

34. I think they've earned a full shit soufflé!

[gopiscrap]

15. Good I hope they chew him up and spit him out!

[Cha]

16. Of course, cruz is calling it "Harry Reid's shutdown".. that's what wimpering little

pos bullies do. They sneak around and blame it on the other guy.

thanks Liberal in LA

[randome]

18. Because even Cruz isn't in charge of the GOP. No one wants the job.

Priebus? He's been in over his head from day one. Even he isn't in charge. No one is. That's why the GOP is flailing about like a corpse with a million volts shooting through it.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[Eleanors38]

19. Rove & his buddies said for almost 20yrs the GOP's future is permanent power

No surprise that a well-funded, well-organized Far Right completely believes that, and is acting accordingly.

[Maeve]

20. The exit plan was "Dems cave, we win"

They should have just stuck to stealing underpants....

[appleannie1]

22. Yet they followed him like a herd of lemmings or a pod of whales beaching themselves.

Does not say much for their intelligence in the first place.

[TheKentuckian]

24. Pretty much. Emboldened by previous hostage taking.

[Ohio Joe]

23. A repug that did not think things through...

What a shock

[zentrum]

26. They're all flimflam con artist and liars

Cruz is them.
They are Cruz.

[NastyRiffraff]

27. As much as I can't stand Ted Cruz

The Republicans who blame him alone for the cesspool they find themselves drowning in are being unfair. As far as I know, Cruz didn't point a gun at them, hold them hostage, or threaten their families. They went along with him on their own, and they are just as responsible as he is for the resultant fiasco.

They're mad because there's no end game? Did any one of them think to ask that question before they followed him off the cliff into the stinking pond?

[Rex]

28. But but but...Green Eggs and Ham!

Say goodbye to your carears GOP assholes!

[Rebellious Republican]

29. So when did Cruz become minority leader, oh thats right he is a minority.

Duh, silly me, Beat me, bite me, whip me, fuck me, like the dirty pig that I am.
Cum all over my tits and tell 'em that you love me.
Then get the fuck out.


Hi, this is station AWOL,
Coming to you from from over the hill at Bob Bar city
I'm gonna sing if I come back tonight,
Can I still keep my stripes or have I stayed away too long?

Beat me, bite me, whip me, fuck me, like the dirty pig that I am
Cum all over my tits and tell 'em that you love me
Then get the fuck out

Hey, keep it going boys
We're coming right on back, but we're gonna go the other way though
Fuck me, whip me, bite me, beat me, like the dirty dog that I am
And leave me, and then get the fuck out

(Beat me) like the dirty pig that I am
Cum all over my tits and tell 'em that you love me
(Bite me) then get the fuck out
Beat me, bite me, and whip me

Now look out, boys, the big dog's gonna move on in
Here's what they call a wildfire
Yeah, coming on
Come on back, boy

Hey, big boy, if you can't run with the big dog,
You better stay on the porch

Hey, get it
Beat me, bite me, whip me, like the dirty dog that I am
Cum all over my tits and tell 'em that you love me
Then get the fuck out

Hit that, drummerboy
Beat me, bite me, whip me, fuck me, like the dirty pig that I am
Cum all over my tits and tell 'em that you love me
Then get the fuck out

See'mon
Get going
Then get out
I mean get the fuck out

[connecticut yankee]

30. The reason why

they all followed him like sheep is that the Tea Party has been threatening them with primaries.

I hope they all lose, and that the Dems submerge them in the election.

[99th_Monkey]

32. I couldn't happen to a more disdain-worthy asshat. nt

[SHRED]

33. Always blaming others...that's who they are

[leftyohiolib]

35. leading them into shutdown w/o exit plan- I THINK THEY FOUND A SCAPEGOAT

[Motown_Johnny]

36. It was a stab in the back. A way to damage all those not conservative enough.

I think they are just starting to catch on that the damage was the point here. Of course they are pissed. They know they must act responsibly to stop this insane shutdown and they also know that they will face primary challenges from extremists on their right next year.

[Initech]

38. Epic fail! They would have shut down the government, plan or no plan!