Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the GOP’s most recent vice presidential candidate, finished with a combined total of less than 10 percent of the vote in the Family Research Council (FRC) Values
The bitter Republican Senator, who coined the term “Whacko Birds,” to describe conservative Republican Senators, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Rand Paul, took to the Fox News airwaves and continued blaming the government shutdown on Ted Cruz and his squadron
The president of the Family Research Council, one of the most prominent social conservative organizations, said on Friday that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is a de facto Republican leader. In an interview with CNN’s Peter Hamby at Friday’s Value Voters Summit
On Friday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) blamed conservatives like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for the Obama administration’s initial failure to pay death benefits to the families of fallen American soldiers during the government shutdown. In an appearance on Fox News
On Friday, after blaming conservatives like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for the Obama administration’s mishandling of military death benefits, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said Cruz simply did not represent the GOP. Fox News host Martha MacCallum mentioned that Cruz would
On Thursday, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh fiercely defended Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) from criticism against those in the Republican commentariat–like Grover Norquist and Charles Krauthammer–that have assailed Lee and Cruz recently for what they
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on CNN’s Crossfire with host Van Jones: “Do you feel like you owe your party an apology? Listen, you have people who believed in you, they believed that you were somehow going to be able to
Sen. Ted Cruz pushes back against Van Jones and shares his view on how health care reform ought to work and then Jones asked Ted Cruz if it was wrong to go against Republican leaders and continue his push against
Leave it to establishment Republicans to sacrifice policy on the altar of tactics. As the partial government shutdown rolls into its second week and the so-called debt ceiling deadline draws nearer, we’re beginning to see cracks in a previously unified
I find the suggestion that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) does not truly oppose Obamacare rather amusing. The basis of the charge is that he does not mention the word “Obamacare” in his op-ed today in the Wall Street Journal about
News leaked via Politico’s Dylan Byers that five D.C.-based conservative journalists met President Barack Obama on Tuesday in an off-the-record session. No, I’m not upset that we weren’t invited–the Groucho Marx rule is relevant here, more so the fact that
Continuing his relentless verbal assaults against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for his strategy to defund Obamacare, Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, accused Cruz last week of weakening the Republican Party. He said Cruz needed to apologize
A week ago, some Republicans were grousing over the tactics used by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), blaming him for the confrontation that led to the government shutdown over Obamacare. Today, a few are still fanning the flames of GOP infighting–such
Momentum appears to be building in South Carolina against Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who faces three challengers in next year’s June primary. On Monday evening, the Greenville County, SC GOP executive committee, an official arm of the state’s Republican Party,
(AP) Gov’t shutdown enters 2nd week, no end in sightBy DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe government shutdown entered its second week with no end in sight and ominous signs that the United States was closer to the first default in the nation’s
On Sunday, The New York Times‘ Maureen Dowd wrote perhaps the most absurd column ever to appear in the pages of that illustrious newspaper. The piece, titled, “Welcome to Ted Cruz’s Thunderdome,” links together bizarre dystopian movie references, pathetically unfunny
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) on CNN’s “State of the Union”
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) On CNN’s “State of the Union”
Last week, the New York Times highlighted grassroots conservative journalists’ power in shaping the contours of the budget showdown and described Breitbart News as “one of the most popular conservative Web sites.” Times reporter Jeremy W. Peters said the evolution
Actor George Clooney said that he panics when he sees conservatives like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaking in Congress. Clooney referenced Cruz’s 21-hour quasi-filibuster on the Senate floor, which was in support of defunding Obamacare, in comments to New York Magazine “I
Rep. Joaquín Castro (D-Texas) the brother of Julian Castro is now an attack dog for the Obama Administration’s war on Sen. Ted Cruz. Castro is the mayor of San Antonio whom the Democratic Party is pushing as a future Barack Obama. Castro
It is worth noting that in most of the serious political crises during (or, more accurately, fomented by) the Obama administration, President Barack Obama has done nothing to reach agreements, and much to destroy them. Dealmaking comes down–alarmingly!–to Vice President
When asked if he had set a precedent during his time in the Senate that Ted Cruz is now following, President Obama answered:
