Crafty legislative genius Ted Cruz won't say if he'd do it all over again

Former Speaker of the House Ted Cruz sits down with ABC's Jonathan Karl and demonstrates his political brilliance by refusing to say whether he'd shut down the government all over again:

KARL: So you would do it again?

CRUZ: I would do anything, and I will to do anything I can to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare.

But that wasn't the question. The question was whether he'd do what he did all over again, and he refused to answer. So Karl asked him again:

KARL: Will you rule out pushing to the brink of another shutdown by saying you would block funding for the government unless Obamacare is defunded? Will you do that again, or will you say you will not do that again?

CRUZ: Jon, I know you want to nail down all sorts of future tactical decisions. What I intend to do is continue to stand with American people to stop Obamacare.

KARL: So you might do it?

CRUZ: What I intend to do is continue to stand with American people to stop Obamacare.

Now, to be fair to Ted Cruz, I'm not saying that he admitted that his tactics up to this point have been a miserable failure. But I am saying that if he didn't think they've been a miserable failure, he wouldn't have repeatedly dodged Karl's question. Apparently even Ted Cruz has a limit on the amount of B.S. he can dish out. Who knew?