Ted Cruz, House Republicans Meet in Secret at Tortilla Coast

[dkf]

Sen. Ted Cruz met with roughly 15 to 20 House Republicans for around two hours late Monday night at the Capitol Hill watering hole Tortilla Coast.

The group appeared to be talking strategy about how they should respond to a tentative Senate deal to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling without addressing Obamacare in a substantive way, according to sources who witnessed the gathering. The Texas Republican senator and many of the House Republicans in attendance had insisted on including amendments aimed at dismantling Obamacare in the continuing resolution that was intended to avert the current shutdown.

Sources said the House Republicans meeting in the basement of Tortilla Coast with Cruz were some of the most conservative in the House: Reps. Louie Gohmert of Texas, Steve King of Iowa, Jim Jordan of Ohio, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Raúl R. Labrador of Idaho, Steve Southerland II of Florida, Mark Meadows of North Carolina and Justin Amash of Michigan.

The group is a collection of members who have often given leadership headaches in recent years by opposing both compromise measures as well as packages crafted by fellow Republicans. And, it seems, leadership unwittingly became aware of the meetup.

http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/ted-cruz-house-republicans-meet-in-secret-at-tortilla-coast/

[gopiscrap]

1. sounds like they plan to sabatoge any deal coming out

[cali]

2. I don't think there's any doubt about that

[gopiscrap]

4. we could be seriously fucked

if that is the case

[cali]

7. it is the case. I just posted a NYT article that affirms that

but I think Boehner will bring it to a vote and hopefully there are enough repubs who will vote with the dems

[dkf]

3. Can't believe they still are trying to plot.

[gopiscrap]

5. God I hope this politically obliterates them

[dkf]

6. The country won't emerge unscathed if so.

[AngryOldDem]

17. Of course they will! n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

8. Wow, I bet that was a happy dinner.

"Can I bring you folks some Guacamole?"

[Berlum]

9. Republicon OCCULTIST Cabal conspires in dark, dank basement

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...to occultly plan their strategery against the U.S. of A.

[C_U_L8R]

10. What an appropriate venue

For such a tasteless cheesy guy.

If the GOP doesn't hang the whole lot of em, the rest of the country will have to.
Seditious bastards.

[lonestarnot]

11. And nobody had any matches?

[steve2470]

12. I wonder if they kept telling Gohmert to shut up and be quiet lol

Wouldn't surprise me in the least

[dkf]

13. That guy is such a moron. I can't believe anyone votes for him.

[steve2470]

14. maybe the " I"m one of you" tactic that Bush used to pull ? I dunno nt

[kentauros]

30. All they need to do with Gohmert is shake him a little bit

for endless hours of entertainment:

[struggle4progress]

15. 20 folk can't block action in the House: the Majority Leader is just pretending he can't do anything

[dkf]

16. Well they did add that odd cantor rule.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023848527

[DrDan]

18. apparently Paul "the wonk" Ryan used to work at this restaurant

before he began his stalwart career in the House

[FSogol]

31. Washing clean dishes?

[Fawke Em]

35. OMG. He did!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/10/paul-ryan-tortilla-coast_n_1955283.html

During these formative years on Capitol Hill, Ryan also served chips and salsa at Tortilla Coast, where he worked as a server.

[brooklynite]

19. "Could I book a table for 20 to plot the economic collapse of the US"?

...and can we get chips and salsa?

[alfredo]

20. The Pollo Putsch

[Berlum]

21. Just because they're Chickenhawk Repubbies don't mean they're just clucking around

[alfredo]

22. I hope they end up with egg on their face.

[Brigid]

23. A "secret meeting" in a public place?

[Berlum]

25. Way way way down in the Basement, not in the Light of Day.

When do your plotting in the basement like these RepubliBaggers just did, it is occultism. The business of the American people should be conducted in the LIGHT of Day. What are they HIDING from the citizens of the USA?

[woodsprite]

26. There were a group of guys who had secret meetings in a boarding house

in DC around 1865 to plot the downfall of the Union. That's what this reminds me of.

[barnabas63]

24. Why couldn't they find an 'murikan restaurant???

[riverwalker]

27. it would be awful if they all got Salmonella

from some bad avocados with the food inspectors shutdown and all.

[SummerSnow]

28. may look like this

[SummerSnow]

29. Joe Scarborough: Ted Cruz and House Republicans picked the wrong place for a secret meeting

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2013/oct/15/joe-scarborough-ted-cruz-and-house-republicans-pic/

[ChangeUp106]

32. Any of the waitstaff have cameras?

[kentauros]

33. Damn! My first reading of that was

"Ted Cruz, House Republicans Meet in Secret at Tortilla Roast"

I thought they'd finally wrapped up Ted and roasted him in a tortilla wrap!

[ChangeUp106]

34. Was this their Latino outreach?

I can hear Rush now: we put Condoleezza in the front row of the convention, we plot to destroy America in the basement of a Mexican place...what more do minorities want?

[Gothmog]

36. Juanita Jean had some fun with this story

http://www.juanitajean.com/2013/10/15/low-as-a-moles-navel-on-digging-day/

Can you spell o-b-s-e-s-s-i-o-n? Cruz is even considering another filibuster. You know, because the first one worked so well.

The best part of their little Boys Only Club meeting? They got caught by Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, who was not invited to the conservative cabal but was a tad interested in what the fool damn tarnation did they think they were doing.

So even if a deal is reached, these clowns aren’t getting back into the clown car and leaving the circus. No, siree. They will have all three rings filled with tomfoolery.

And I don’t want to be one of those people who says which side won or lost, but I will say this: If there is a black man in the White House when this is over, Republicans did not get what they really wanted.