Ted Cruz blasts fellow Senate Republicans but says he will not delay vote on Senate debt deal.
Many Republicans knew this was going to be a disaster going in. But just as many totally misread Obama. Just days before the shutdown numerous high profile Republicans insisted there was no way Obama wouldn’t negotiate. That was a significant error. Because probably the key driver of this drama has been President Obama’s refusal to negotiate over raising the debt ceiling.
It’s not official yet, but all the indications coming from official channels are that Speaker Boehner will bring to a vote a bill that more or less cleanly raises the debt limit and ends the government shutdown. By doing so, Boehner will finally free so-called Republican moderates to join with Democrats in doing what they’ve wanted to do all along. Sahil Kapur has all the latest here.
Heritage Action CEO, who led the crusade to shutdown the government unless Obamacare was defunded or delayed: “Well, everybody understands that we’ll not be able to repeal this law until 2017.”
For everyone who’s wondered about what whackadoo alternative universe the country’s fallen into these last two weeks, with Jim DeMint’s Heritage Action Fund and Senate Conservative’s Fund driving things forward, let’s remember this video from days after the 2012 election. Seriously. Just a moment. It will put it all in perspective. Watch.
A historical shutdown crisis you may not know about, involving Rutherford B. Hayes and the KKK.
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After things collapsed on the House side, a Senate GOP aide told our Dylan Scott, “Ted Cruz and his Tortilla Coast Republicans are leading us to a default.”
House GOP leadership confirms no vote tonight on their mythical debt plan.