{"id":3090,"date":"2013-08-01T13:15:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T13:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=3090"},"modified":"2013-08-01T13:15:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T13:15:02","slug":"cruz-taunts-fellow-gop-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3090","title":{"rendered":"Cruz taunts fellow GOP senators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The junior Republican senator from Texas is proving a point I made the other day about the intraparty battle brewing over whether the shut the government down by cutting off money for the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n<p>Ted Cruz asks, \u201cWhat\u2019s the alternative\u201d?\u201d to shutting \u2018er down.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/blog.mysanantonio.com\/texas-on-the-potomac\/2013\/07\/trash-talk-politico-describes-team-cruz-attacks-on-fellow-republicans-as-taunting\/\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.mysanantonio.com\/texas-on-the-potomac\/2013\/07\/trash-talk-politico-describes-team-cruz-attacks-on-fellow-republicans-as-taunting\/\">http:\/\/blog.mysanantonio.com\/texas-on-the-potomac\/2013\/07\/trash-talk-politico-describes-team-cruz-attacks-on-fellow-republicans-as-taunting\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Lone Star State firebrand \u2013 who\u2019s been on the job less than eight months \u2013 wasn\u2019t around to witness what happened when the Republicans got their heads handed to them over this very thing. The alternative, Sen. Cruz, is to work with Democrats and \u201cestablishment Republicans\u201d to keep the government functioning.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz also wasn\u2019t in the Senate when that body \u2013 along with the House of Representatives \u2013 approved Obamacare. The Supreme Court then handed the Obama administration a clear victory when it ruled \u2013 albeit narrowly \u2013 that the law is in fact constitutional.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, we have a standing law.<\/p>\n<p>Congressional Republicans, though, keep trying to overturn what\u2019s been done legally.<\/p>\n<p>And this fight between the two wings of the GOP \u2013 the tea party wing and the establishment wing \u2013 is proving to be worth the price of entertainment all by itself.<\/p>\n<p>Keep \u201ctaunting\u201d those older, more experienced hands, Sen. Cruz.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The junior Republican senator from Texas is proving a point I made the other day about the intraparty battle brewing over whether the shut the government down by cutting off money for the Affordable Care Act. Ted Cruz asks, \u201cWhat\u2019s the alternative\u201d?\u201d to shutting \u2018er down. http:\/\/blog.mysanantonio.com\/texas-on-the-potomac\/2013\/07\/trash-talk-politico-describes-team-cruz-attacks-on-fellow-republicans-as-taunting\/ The Lone Star State firebrand \u2013 who\u2019s been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3090\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cruz taunts fellow GOP senators<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1145,1978,3376,3708,4472,4537],"class_list":["post-3090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-contract-with-america","tag-government-shutdown","tag-obamacare","tag-president-obama","tag-supreme-court","tag-ted-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}