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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Ted cruz seems to be the emerging 'all in' candidate so far for the republicans, but a smart strategist would be sitting in the background letting cruz spend his celebrity and burn his political and media capital.
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Saw him on O'Reilly's show yesterday. He is very unimpressive to say the least.
Had no answers for why the House Republicans couldn't offer up a much more articulable, simple and reasonable compromise to delay the individual mandates for the ACA for a year in exchange for funding the gov't to the end of the calendar year. This would also have the added bonus of being much more easy to get the Republicans message out in the MSM as to what the Democrats have to give in on to end the shutdown.
Also, he couldn't or wouldn't even answer if he himself would support a simpler compromise like that. He dodged every question and answered with rhetoric. Americans will not get behind him in that sorry of a state.
Like I said above, the Republicans are going to be in the wilderness for some years to come. Perhaps a decade.
EDIT: Link to the segment with O'Reilly and Cruz (interview starts at 2:45):
http://www.billoreilly.com/video#play
One thing I really want to call the MSM's coverage of the shutdown out is on how they are exaggerating apparently immediate doom and destruction affects the shutdown is going to have on the US economy. The Federal Reserve's QE/stimulus efforts remain unaffected by the shutdown (which is what is really driving the "recovery" - somewhat artificially in my view, but nonetheless). The Wall Street guys are still going to work. The 80% of American workers who work in the private sector (and who are therefore responsible for 100% of the net taxation revenue) are still going to work. Certain sectors of the Federal Government are unaffected (air triaffic controllers, food inspectors, uniformed military personnel).
Yes I understand that a prolonged shutdown of a few weeks like last time might start to affect the economy. But this imminent doom and gloom the MSM is spewing is a bit offensive.
Show me some measurable affects, then I'll listen.