Peter King: Cruz Was Leading Us Into ‘Valley Of Death’

U.S. Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y. speaks at an outdoor barbecue at the home of Don Rowan, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013 in Wakefield, N.H. King is considering running for president in 2016.
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Rep. Peter King (R-NY) on Friday continued to criticize conservatives and their effort to defund the health care law led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).

“I wish some of these guys that want to be national leaders would speak out. I don’t know anybody else who did it besides me during this time,” King told the Associated Press. “I actually went and said, ‘This is crazy, Cruz is a fraud, he’s a false prophet, he’s leading us into the valley of death.'”

King said the federal government shutdown was pointless.

“We’re back where we started from, except we lost $24 billion out of the economy,” he said.

King was one of a few congressional Republicans who opposed using the threat of a government shutdown to defund Obamacare.

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