Ted Cruz: I Didn’t Come to the Senate to Make 99 New Friends

I like Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). I have appreciated his stand since before he became a United States senator. I was encouraged to see him stand and speak on behalf of Americans against funding Obamacare for over 21 hours recently.
I was happy to see him stand alongside America’s veterans as they protested in Washington. I confess a littledisappointment at simply letting the recent deal go through with only a “No” vote when he promised to use every procedural means necessary he could to stop Obamacare. In that vein, Cruz is who he is and recently he told ABC News’ Jon Karl, following the shutdown deal on Wednesday evening, “There’s an old saying that, ‘Politics, it ain’t beanbag.’ And, you know, I’m not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.”
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