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Wed Oct 2, 2013, 06:10 PM Oct 2013

Norquist: Cruz 'Pushed House Republicans Into Traffic And Wandered Away'

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/norquist-cruz-pushed-house-republicans-into-traffic-and-wandered-away

Anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist had some choice words for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in an interview published Wednesday. The founder of Americans for Tax Reform criticized the junior senator from Texas for his anti-Obamacare tactics on the Senate floor last week, joining ranks of Republicans who were similarly angered by Cruz in the runup to the government shutdown Monday.

"He said if you don’t agree with my tactic and with the specific structure of my idea, you’re bad," he told the Washington Post. "He said if the House would simply pass the bill with defunding he would force the Senate to act. He would lead this grass-roots movement that would get Democrats to change their mind. So the House passed it, it went to the Senate, and Ted Cruz said, oh, we don’t have the votes over here."

"And I can’t find the e-mails or ads targeting Democrats to support it," Norquist added. "Cruz said he would deliver the votes and he didn’t deliver any Democratic votes. He pushed House Republicans into traffic and wandered away."
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Norquist: Cruz 'Pushed House Republicans Into Traffic And Wandered Away' (Original Post) Mass Oct 2013 OP
And may he die a death of a thousand cuts... landolfi Oct 2013 #1
LOL! LeftofObama Oct 2013 #2
Did he type this out between mindwalker_i Oct 2013 #3
Your bathtub's ready Grover, you hot, hunky Jonah Goldberg-esque Beltway gladiator, you . . . hatrack Oct 2013 #4

hatrack

(59,587 posts)
4. Your bathtub's ready Grover, you hot, hunky Jonah Goldberg-esque Beltway gladiator, you . . .
Wed Oct 2, 2013, 07:08 PM
Oct 2013

Hop right in and relax. It won't take a minute, sporadically bearded man-child.

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