A new national poll has found that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is not only the 2016 frontrunner but also the politician Republicans view as their new leader in Washington, D.C. A Public Policy Polling poll of GOP primary voters conducted
Sen. Barbara Mikulski attacked Ted Cruz’s supporters, calling them ‘Tea Baggers’ when she called in to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports on Friday.
While the cloture vote on the Continuing Resolution passed with GOP support on Friday 79-19, several senior powerful GOP senators bucked their leadership to side with freshmen Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) to oppose the Reid plan.
(AP) Senate OKs budget bill, but fight not overBy ALAN FRAMAssociated PressWASHINGTONA potential federal shutdown hurtling ever closer, the Senate dealt an emphatic defeat to a core of rebellious young conservatives Friday and approved legislation preventing government agencies from closing
Uh oh…I think we have another case for the nation’s “chief civic decency officer” (as John Hayward calls him), Senator John McCain: Senator Barbara Mikulski called in to Andrea Mitchell’s MSNBC show, today and wheezed “the reason Ted Cruz stood up and asked
On Friday, the Senate voted 79-19 to invoke cloture and end debate on the House-passed Continuing Resolution. The vote paves the way for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to offer an amendment to restore funding for ObamaCare. Funding for the
On the Senate floor on Thursday afternoon, Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Bob Corker (R-TN) teamed up to falsely claim that Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) have no support from others in the U.S. Senate for their
More than a few things that make up the core of modern conservatism started with “lost causes.” Oh, those who proposed them didn’t think they were lost causes, but if they listened to their critics, to their opponents, to the
According to sources on the Hill, there is growing support among Senate Republicans to support Sens. Cruz and Lee’s efforts to scuttle Sen. Harry Reid’s attempt to reinstate ObamaCare funding in the House Continuing Resolution. On Friday, the Senate is
On a conference call Thursday with reporters, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that the next stage in the fight to defund Obamacare occurs Friday when the Senate votes for cloture on the Continuing Resolution. Cruz says Senate Republicans must unite
Quick, when was the last time USA Today let an actor use its editorial space for a political rant? It doesn’t happen often, yet the news outlet gave relative unknown Josh Gad (formerly of the failed 1600 Penn and box office
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) told reporters Wednesday he is “ready to admit” that the GOP may not defund Obamacare when faced with a government shutdown. Paul told reporters after his colleague Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) 21 hours quasi-filibustering on the Senate
After Senator Ted Cruz’s epic talking filibuster, Senator McCain took the floor to attack Mr Cruz’s comparison of Senators unwilling to act and media opposition to Nazi appeasers…
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) talked with Rush Limbaugh after his filibuster
Appearing on Rush Limbaugh’s talk radio show on Wednesday after speaking on the Senate floor for 21 hours without food or drink in opposition to Obamacare, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said he was going to try and get “a little
Earlier today, Breitbart’s Ben Shapiro detailed some of the attacks on the Ted Cruz quasi-filibuster perpetrated by the progressive media. Shapiro compared this to how they fawned over Wendy Davis’ pro-abortion filibuster in Texas. The media might be feeling the
On Wednesday, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said he was appalled by Senator Ted Cruz’s invocation of the Dr. Seuss children’s book Green Eggs and Ham during his filibuster against funding of Obamacare. Cruz read Green Eggs and Ham to put
WASHINGTON–I consider myself an unapologetic Tea Party Patriot. I brush my teeth with red, white, and blue toothpaste. I have the entire line of Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Mike Lee Super Hero action figures. I will start buying Wheaties
The Atlantic Wire says conservatives are wrong on the facts about coverage of Wendy Davis and Ted Cruz. Here’s the chart that supposedly proves it: Here’s the explanation focused on the blue bars: As you can see, Cruz’s speech was
You might remember the media gushing over an eight hour U.S. Senate “filibuster,” launched by the openly socialist Bernie Sanders, back in December of 2010. Only it wasn’t a filibuster. What Sanders did was exactly what Senator Cruz just did:
Steve Deace, nationally syndicated talk radio host and political powerbroker in Iowa says that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is “on a path to the White House.” On Wednesday, Deace to the DC establishment-organ, Politico, to explain the appeal of Cruz
In the wake of Senator Ted Cruz’s 21-hour filibuster, in order to ensure his ideas are not heard, the media have focused on his reading the Dr. Seuss book Green Eggs and Ham. But that was just the one-punch. The
Former Alaska Governor slammed the mainstream media for gushing over Texas Democrat State Senator Wendy Davis for filibustering in support of abortion policies a majority of Texans and Americans disapproved of while lambasting Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for speaking on
While Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) spoke on the Senate floor yesterday in opposition to Obamacare and the waivers politicians and big business have received, he earned the support of many Americans. #MakeDCListen was the top trending hashtag repeatedly throughout his
John McCain tried to grab a few minutes at the end of the Ted Cruz filibuster, leading magnificently sarcastic Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan to Tweet that McCain wanted to give the Democratic response to Cruz’ speech. Eventually McCain
