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

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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/