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

[All Along The Watchtower]

Yes, he did actually say that. He also said that this victory was sabotaged by Republican  Senators. 
 
It's never the fault of Movement Conservatism when things go wrong. It's always RINO traitors who are colluding with the liberal media.

[LastVoter]

His assessment is right. It would be a great victory for him if the default were to happen.

[Mehmentum]

The Onion hits the nail on the head once again:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/republicans-give-in-right-before-obamacare-would-h,34246

[Grumpier Than Thou]

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[King]

I'm starting to suspect Ted Cruz is a plant.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here: huge success.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.

[ElectionsGuy]

an incredible victory.... for the tea party. A horrible nightmare for the republican party.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

It was an incredible victory for a dam in Kentucky.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here: huge success.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.

OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU

[barfbag]

I'm starting to suspect Ted Cruz is a plant.

Until this month I wouldn't have suspected it, but especially since the shutdown started I've lost track of what his deal is. I just don't get him.

[The Free North]

I guess incredible victory means embarrassing defeat in neo-con language

[Cory]

I guess incredible victory means embarrassing defeat in neo-con language

Ted Cruz is not a "neo-con".

[Stranger in a strange land]

[hopper]

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.

[AkSaber]

It was an incredible victory for a dam in Kentucky.

And that is all.

[bullmoose88]

[Badger]

It was a huge victory....for Ted Cruz.

Measured in terms of his presidential ambitions, he's crazy like a fox.

[Peter the Lefty]

Yes it was an incredible victory...for him.  He got the media attention he needed, thus securing his status as the main tea party candidate in 2016.

[Mordecai]

I'm starting to suspect Ted Cruz is a plant.

Until this month I wouldn't have suspected it, but especially since the shutdown started I've lost track of what his deal is. I just don't get him.

He's a sociopathic narcissist.

[publicunofficial]

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[Beezer]

In remarks likely to deepen his rift with members of his own party, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said he wants conservatives to hold Senate Republicans "accountable" for opposing the ill-fated effort to defund the Affordable Care Act.

Echoing his sentiments from earlier this week, Cruz told National Review's Robert Costa in an interview published Saturday that the defunding campaign was derailed by a "significant number" of his GOP colleagues who "actively, aggressively, and vocally led the effort to defeat House Republicans."

“Once Senate Republicans did that, it crippled the chances of this effort, and it caused the lousy deal.” he told Costa.

Cruz didn't identify any specific senators and, as he said earlier this year, made it clear that he won't be involved in any GOP primaries. But he indicated he wants those lawmakers to pay a price at the ballot box.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cruz-wants-voters-to-hold-gopers-accountable-for-opposing-defunding-effort
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I'd say it's becoming more and more clear by the day that Cruz is a sleeper agent, brought into the country by the Cuban Communist Party with the goal of wrecking the US from the inside after they failed to hack into Cheney's pacemaker.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Let's stop talking about Ted Cruz.

[pbrower2a]

Someone similarly delusional could expect to see the Detroit Tigers and Los Angles Dodgers in the World Series after their similar wins in their respective 2013 League Championship Series.

(They lost their playoffs).

[Grumpier Than Thou]

I'm starting to suspect Ted Cruz is a plant.

Robert Conquest's Third Law of Politics: The simplest way to explain the behavior of any organization is to assume that it is secretly controlled by a cabal of its enemies bent on discrediting it.

If Ted Cruz actually runs for the nomination, it will be an incredible victory for the writers of the Daily Show.

That's a really good assumption as to who the planter is.

[Antonio the Sixth]

This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here: huge success.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.

OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU