Republican Rep. Peter King Blasts Sen. Ted Cruz As A ‘Phony’ ‘Fraud’

I don’t normally agree with Rep. Peter King (R-NY) but his no-holds-barred attack on Ted Cruz last night was most satisfying. Although Republicans like to say the split in their party is over tactics, there was no such pussyfooting by King.

Last night, The O'Reilly Factor held a discussion about Republican efforts to defund Obamacare. Bill O'Reilly said to King, a known Cruz critic, "I think Cruz is sincere in what he does… You think he’s a phony?"

That was all the opening King needed to let loose.

Yes, I certainly do and I’ll tell you why, Bill. Because he’s been saying all summer all we had to do in the House if we voted to defund it, that would defund it for the year. He knew all along that Harry Reid and the Democrats would never agree to that. He knows that President Obama would never agree to it. And yet he was acting as if, so long as we voted for this in the House, it would happen. We knew it would never happen. John Boehner knew it would never happen. …We could have started two or three weeks ago negotiating parts of the Obamacare bill that we thought should be modified or removed or taken out. And the fact is, Ted Cruz was insisting – and he’s been working with people unfortunately in my conference, Republican conference - insisting on either his way or highway. There was no alternative allowed. And he knew this was a phony. He knew it was a fraud. And he persisted on pushing it. So I have no patience for this guy at all. And we made a tremendous mistake in allowing him to get out front and set policy for us.

I never thought I'd say this, but I agree with King 100%.

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commented 2013-09-29 16:31:15 -0400 · Flag

I personally know Foxbots who definitely blame “Obamacare” for their employers’ decisions to screw them over. One guy told me his 2014 deductible went from $0 to $3,000. From what I understand, the employer mandate doesn’t kick in until 2015. SMDH.

commented 2013-09-28 17:13:48 -0400 · Flag

The Republicans are done- Only people who still get their information from RW media and conservative blowhards on sites like TED will even consider voting for one in 2013.

And even that’s not certain, as some of them are starting to realize their employers are kinda just doing whatever they want and blaming the ACA, which isn’t even fully realized yet.

commented 2013-09-28 13:48:31 -0400 · Flag

I noted this in another thread, but it bears repeating. Notice what O’Reilly does in this segment – it’s really sneaky. He tries to propose a “compromise” where President Obama negotiates with the House GOP and agrees to delay the implementing of the ACA for a year for anyone who doesn’t want to comply with it. (Which basically guts it). That’s not a compromise by any means, and it’s actually a tipping of the debate toward the far right wing positions taken by Fox News and GOP politicians like Cruz. Within his “No Spin Zone”, O’Reilly is actually trying to move the playing field about 100 yards over to the right without his viewers noticing it. After all, he sounds reasonable, doesn’t he?

Except that Bill conveniently ignores that President Obama and the Democrats have spent countless days and hours discussing, debating and negotiating with the GOP over the ACA. The GOP has had countless opportunities to propose amendments and corrections. The Dems even caved on the public option, which should have been the center of the legislation in the first place. The GOP’s response was to continue to try to block the whole idea from happening, just so they could use it as a campaign prop. Not to mention that Fox News and the GOP have been desperately trying to kill the ACA as part of their attempt to write a first draft of history – and in their version, President Obama is seen as a complete failure.

It’s crucial that O’Reilly be called out for this kind of behavior because, again, it’s really sneaky.

commented 2013-09-28 13:46:28 -0400 · Flag

This is just bullshit. Rather than blaming themselves for following an idiot, they are blaming the idiot for leading them into an untenable position.

“We knew it would never happen. John Boehner knew it would never happen.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Pass the popcorn.

With all my documents,
Uncle Headly

commented 2013-09-28 10:22:48 -0400 · Flag

@ truman Translation: If the Republican Party wants to be a relevant, national political party, it needs to distance itself from the Koch brothers PRONTO! Remember: the Koch brothers are the teabaggers’ longtime sugar daddies.

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Grab the popcorn!

commented 2013-09-28 09:55:31 -0400 · Flag

If the Republican Party wants to be a relevant, national political party, it will need to take control away from the rabid teabaggers who now seem to call the shots.