with the house s side of business. the senator from texas may lose a couple of allies in the house come next january. how does this funding war end? does cruz have enough teeth to stop boehner s plan? ted cruz s goal is to prevent boehner from having enough votes to pass a bill funding the government with only republicans. that would force him to either go back and try to get some of those conservatives on his side by maybe taking up cruz s strategy of the funding for department of homeland security or have to turn to democrats. until yesterday, it wasn t clear turning to democrats was a viable option. a lot would prefer to fund the government through the year and get rid of this fight right now. suggested they might be okay with what boehner s trying to do splitting up funding with bills that fund most of the government and then with