I have a really bad habit. When I come home from work, I like to wind down on the couch with MSNBC on and a nice glass of cold water (filtered via a pitcher in fridge because our water sucks). I digress. The nasty habit is switching over to Fox on commercials. I know, right? How could I? But my dad watches Fox faithfully, so I like to hear what he hears for my next trip to visit.
I switched over at the perfect time to catch the tail end of a Fox interview with Ted Cruz. "He's finally back on the air after his fauxlibuster," I'm thinking. I only caught the tail end, where the fantastic quote comes from. So I pulled out the laptop to stream it from the Fox website, to make sure I'm not taking anything out of context.
They start with some Dem bashing, namely Reid. Then this is all fueling their base with visits to horrible website, they're building momentum, even with other House members. Senate Republicans and uniting and supporting the House Republicans. You know, just hitting all the talking points on how they're united and we're refusing to listen and negotiate.
He flat out says at 2:05, "This is Harry Reid's shutdown." Then he says this is the approach laid out by Obama.
"So, wait a minute, Mr. Diarist," you say. "How does Cruz accept blame if he's saying this is Reid's shutdown with an approach that Obama laid out?"
At the 6:10 mark, Cruz says:
And in fact, Senator Rob Portman has legislation that would eliminate government shutdowns. Senator Pat Toomey, Republican from Pennsylvania, has legislation that would eliminate threat of a default on the debt ceiling. What happens on both of those is Harry Reid and the Democrats have killed both of those because Harry Reid and the Democrats want government by crisis, because it's the way they keep exploding the size of government. It's the reason we've got nearly a $17 trillion national debt. And it's why so many Americans are frustrated with Washington, because the place is broken, and it's like a leviathan that keeps growing and growing and growing. The only way we can change it is what's happening right now. If we can force DC to listen to the American people I think that's the only we can change it.
The breakdown below the fold.
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