Good Luck With That

Tea Party Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks at a rally at the World War II Memorial in Washington Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013, as Senate leaders have taken the helm in the search for a deal to end the partial government shutd... Tea Party Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks at a rally at the World War II Memorial in Washington Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013, as Senate leaders have taken the helm in the search for a deal to end the partial government shutdown and avert a federal default. MORE LESS
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Sen. Cruz (R-TX) says that killing the filibuster (and that’s really what it is) “will poison the atmosphere of the Senate.”

All the snark aside (and this deserves plenty of snark), I think this does point to the bad position Senate Republicans put themselves in – namely, that it is just not really credible that any more poisoning is possible in the Senate. And no person captures that more clearly than Sen. Cruz.

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