Ted Cruz Blames Senate GOP For ‘Bombing Our Own Troops’ In The House

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks to reporters as he leaves the floor of the Senate after skirmishing with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., over the Affordable Care Act, popularly know as Obamacare, at the Cap... Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks to reporters as he leaves the floor of the Senate after skirmishing with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., over the Affordable Care Act, popularly know as Obamacare, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Sept. 23, 2013. The Republican-controlled House and the Democrat-controlled Senate are at an impasse after GOP conservatives approved legislation Friday in the House to keep the government running but at the cost of wiping out President Obama's signature health care law. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) stood behind his effort to use a government shutdown to defund the health care law Wednesday, blaming his fellow Senate Republicans for getting in the way of victory in the House.

Cruz told conservative talk show host Mark Levin that Republican senators had been “firing their cannons” at the House Republican caucus and likened the Senate GOP to an “air force bombing our own troops.”

Cruz also said that the Senate is “undoubtedly” broken.

“It’s a broken institution,” he said, adding that Senate Republicans are too concerned with “getting invited to the cocktail parties.”

The Senate did not take the full brunt of Cruz’s blame. The Texas firebrand called the Obama White House “the imperial presidency,” and said that Obama was “dangerous” because he “thinks he is above the law.”

Ultimately, Cruz said that his effort to defund Obamacare, which died in the Senate Wednesday night, was not a failure.

“It was an incredible victory,” Cruz said.

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