Ted Cruz on effort to defund Obamacare: "It was an incredible victory"

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He is out of his mind. No wonder why his own party doesn't care for him. As a rookie senator he is making all the rookie senator mistakes that you can make. Most sports players know(unless you are some hot draft pick out of college) don't disrespect the veterans or will you be chewed out and gone from the team. Cruz stepped all over the veteran senators and now he is getting chewed out. I don't what him and Mike Lee were thinking going behind Republican Senate Leadership back and doing this. Why would you do something and not tell leadership at the weekly or daily meeting that you had this planned?  I know the hard right says well why didn't the rest of the Republican Party stand behind Lee or Cruz(well ok more so because he was just elected while Lee was elected in 2010.) The answer is you don't violate the packing order rule(rookie to veteran) and not tell leadership what you had planned.