http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/02/grover-norquist-slams-cruz-he-pushed-house-republicans-into-traffic-and-wandered-away/
Prominent Republican lobbyist Grover Norquist accused Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) of causing the shuttering of government operations by selling his counterparts in the House a bill of goods he couldn’t provide.
“He said if the House would simply pass the bill with defunding he would force the Senate to act,” Norquist told the Washington Post in an interview published on Wednesday. “He would lead this grass-roots movement that would get Democrats to change their mind. So the House passed it, it went to the Senate, and Ted Cruz said, oh, we don’t have the votes over here.And I can’t find the e-mails or ads targeting Democrats to support it. Cruz said he would deliver the votes and he didn’t deliver any Democratic votes. He pushed House Republicans into traffic and wandered away.”Norquist also criticized Cruz for making the entirety of a continuing resolution funding the government contingent upon opposition of the Affordable Care Act and turning on fellow Republicans who might not fall in line with his specific approach on the issue, regardless of the party as a whole opposing the new law.
although his rants ring true there is a bit of hypocrisy there remember Norquist and his pledges? also during 2012 campaign he said these things
after all his insistence they follow is pledges or be nuked so to speak, when a few got their nerves up and bucked he simply did what he is accusing Cruz of just disappeared, no mushroom clouds.
"Ted Cruz, from left field, said we have to defund Obamacare permanently in this [resolution],” Norquist complained, adding that Cruz wouldn’t accept other concessions.“So that got locked in as a principle,” Norquist explained. “And people went out on talk radio and said if you’re not for this you’re a coward, you’re a RINO.”At the same time, Norquist argued, Democrats were endangered by their opposition to attempts to defund the law, not mentioning that more than 4 million people have already gone online to sign up for the healthcare exchanges that will be available under it. Democratic lawmakers, Norquist alleged, are now trying to prove they are not “clones” of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) or President Barack Obama.
note he is trying to equate their situation like pledges and all republicans must be lockstep or face primaries, by saying that same scenario exist on the Progressive side, we all know that to be another lie, we cringe at the thought of those no longer called blue dogs, but Reagan democrats they are controlling the dialogue and we need to stop and correct at every infraction and keep debunking it as they keep repeating it.
