Senator Ted Cruz is a dirty liar

"This is an administration that seems bound and determined to violate every one of our Bill of Rights," Cruz said. "I expect them to start quartering soldiers in people's homes [in violation of the 3rd Amendment] soon."
Pants on Fire

(Conservative Republican Representative Devin) Nunes said crafting a deal to end the shutdown is problematic because House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has run into a wall of opposition from Cruz's House allies to any deal.

"It's really difficult at this time until the Cruz people decide and admit to our base that their whole premise of getting rid of Obamacare by shutting down our government was a lie. So until that happens, there's not going to be a lot of movement," Nunes said in a telephone interview Monday. "This is his strategy that he's laid out, spent money on, and he's got a lot of members of the Congress to go along with."
Rep Nunes : His nose is longer than a telephone wire

What's unprecedented about Cruz and similar Tea Party Republicans who make up about a third of the House Republican conference is that the aggrieved localized minority has gone national. Republicans once thought Fox News and the conservative media bubble were strategic advantages that allowed them to coordinate messages and organize voters; instead, they have allowed Republican voters to remain unaware that their favorite politicians are lying to them and alienating the median voter.

Losing one election wasn't nearly enough to wake Republican voters up to this problem. Ted Cruz isn't alone on his strange planet; much of the Republican Party is right there with him. And that's likely to be true for a long time.



Ted Cruz Is Living On Another Planet

In just a few days of governing by hashtag, Ted Cruz has gone from asking for a government shutdown to protesting one now that it's happened and people think it's dumb. Last week, the Texas senator wanted to #MakeDCListen by shutting down the government unless Democrats agreed to defund Obamacare. On Wednesday, he wanted Congress to #LetTheVetsIn — as in, open the World War II memorial so veterans could visit. The memorial, like other national parks, was closed by the shutdown....

Cruz and other conservatives campaigned for the strategy. In a speech September 19, Cruz said the last shutdown had a pretty a good outcome: "If House Republicans hadn't stood up in 1995, we wouldn't have seen those kind of public policy results that benefit the country," Cruz said. "Because Republicans stood their ground."
Flip, flop. lie lie lie!

Done!!!

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Thanks Joe for the diatribe! Cruz is a loathsome liar!

The phone number only delivers a message that due to the government shutdown the office is closed.

I used the link and sent my message.

So I guess he was all for shutting down the government but keeping the memorials open?

It's weird to me that the conservatives I know get more worked up that the monuments or parks are closed than soldiers not getting paid or whatever....

Will the FS filibuster the bi-partisan agreement?

Even his friends don't like him:

Yesterday, the editors of the Houston Chronicle's opinion page expressed regret at endorsing Ted Cruz last fall, writing that Cruz “has been part of the problem in specific situations where [his predecessor, Kay Bailey] Hutchison would have been part of the solution.”
Cruz has a 14% approval rate

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“Months ago, when the effort to defund Obamacare began, official Washington scoffed, they scoffed that the American people would rise up, they scoffed that the House of Representatives would do anything and they scoffed that the Senate would do anything.”

“We saw the House of Representatives take a courageous stand, listening to the American people, that everyone in official Washington just weeks earlier said would never happen,” he continued. “And that was a remarkable victory, to see the House engage in a profile in courage.”

“Unfortunately, the Senate chose not to follow the House. And in particular, we saw real division among Senate Republicans. That was unfortunate. I would point out that had Senate Republicans united and supported House Republicans, the outcome of this, I believe, would have been very, very different.”
LIAR! LIAR!!!