generals, it s the battle of little bighorn and then go home and have lunch and leave the troops out there? where are they? where are the generals? what is their strategy for the abolition of obama care? i heard it yesterday. it happened on thursday, are we watching sort the? i know a lot of conservatives have been privately quietly without their names attached it to saying nasty things ability ted cruz, they don t like him. they haven t felt safe to say it. are we seeing a turning point where there is a marginalization of ted cruz on the right? i think the concerns of what folks like ted cruz is doing to the party and the party s image, those concerns have always been there. it s obviously a tricky position for ted cruz s colleagues to come out and say we think he is doing is not good. you look at someone like marco rubio clearly eyeing 2016, he can t come out and be seen as someone not an allie of ted cruz, especially after all of
explain that to me. and where is he now? his side kick senator lee said oh we re past obama care. we ve moved on. i mean, you know, we have the generals who lead people into battle of little bighorn and then go home and have lunch and leave the troops out there? where are they? where are the generals? little bighorn didn t turn out that well, maria. not at all. and when you look at someone like demint, saying there was no way to negotiate with the debt ceiling if they didn t have obama care. now saying go ahead and we ll negotiate because we can t win on obama care. you now have ted cruz standing alone in the republican party and again, that s rich for his opportunity to hold the mantle of leadership within the party. but it s lonely when you don t have any friends in washington within the senate or outside of the senate. dana milbank maria teresa
we ve moved on. i mean, you know, these are the generals who lead people into the battle of little bighorn and then go home and have lunch and leave the troops out there? where are they? where are the generals? what s their strategy to get abolition of obama care? mark halperin it gets worse. a new gallup poll americans now have heard of senator ted cruz and that s not necessarily a good thing. his net favorability is done 16 points from four months ago. cruz s defund obama care partner senator mike lee not doing a lot better. this is shocking numbers. he s seen a 20-point negative swing. shocking number out of utah. he s upside down as the republican senator in utah. there s so much to talk about. mark halperin, this is, as you said, this isn t margin of error stuff. this is quite frankly what scott walker, charles krauthammer,
raised that exact question. how exactly was he going to achieve abolition of obama care? explain that to me. has he ever explained it? and where is he now? his sidekick, senator mike lee said oh, we re past obama care. we ve moved on. i mean, you know, these are the generals who lead people into the battle of little bighorn and then go home and have lunch and leave the troops out there? where are they? where are the generals? what s their strategy to get abolition of obama care? new gallup poll shows more americans than ever before have now heard of senator cruz. so he s certainly gotten the attention he wants. but according to the polls it s not necessarily a good thing. his net favor ability is down. mike lee has seen a 20-point
has he ever explained it? and where is he now? his side kick, senator lee, said, oh, we re past obama care. we ve moved on. i mean, you know, these are the generals who lead people into the battle of little bighorn and then go home and have lunch and leave the troops out there. where are they? where are the generals? what s their strategy to get abolition of obama care? was there a strategy? was there an end game here, congressman? when we talk about strategy, ted cruz is not running the republican party. we have a republican party with many different ideas. and really all we ve been asking about from the beginning is this. delay the fine on americans. now think about this for a second. what the president and this administration is saying is that you have to go sign up for obama care to a website that does not function which you cannot sign up for. and if you don t, if you don t