Ted Cruz catching crap from REPUBLICANS!

THERE ARE ONLY ABOUT 30 TO 40 REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMEN IN WASHINGTON WHO INSIST UPON BACKING CRUZ BUT THEY ARE ENOUGH TO BLOCK A CLEAN VOTE ON A CONTINUING RESOLUTION.  Sad Really.  If there were a straight up or down vote, the CR would pass. The economy sinks further because of Ted Cruz and friends.

Many Senate Republicans publicly and privately scoffed at the Cruz tactics, arguing that he was making a false and politically damaging promise that he could use the funding bill to gut Obamacare — since the law moved forward anyway on Tuesday despite the government shutdown. They argued President Barack Obama would never agree to gut his signature law. And they took great exception by Cruz and his allies in outside groups like the Senate Conservatives Fund to portray them as weak on Obamcare even though the party has furiously battled the law since the beginning of the president’s term in office.
“The entire effort has been totally disingenuous,” the senator said.

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