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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNorquist: Cruz 'Pushed House Republicans Into Traffic And Wandered Away'
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/norquist-cruz-pushed-house-republicans-into-traffic-and-wandered-awayAnti-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 dont agree with my tactic and with the specific structure of my idea, youre 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 dont have the votes over here."
"And I cant find the e-mails or ads targeting Democrats to support it," Norquist added. "Cruz said he would deliver the votes and he didnt 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)
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Oct 2013
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landolfi
(234 posts)1. And may he die a death of a thousand cuts...
n/t
Even Grover (drown government in a bathtub) Norquist is hatin' on Ted.
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)3. Did he type this out between
masturbatory celebrations at the government shutdown?
hatrack
(59,587 posts)4. Your bathtub's ready Grover, you hot, hunky Jonah Goldberg-esque Beltway gladiator, you . . .
Hop right in and relax. It won't take a minute, sporadically bearded man-child.