harry reid wanted, which was to raise the debt ceiling but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gul labl constituents and because they had to admit what they are doing and nothing upsets them more. let s bring in friend of the show, dan balls. dan, i wouldn t say that senator cruz doesn t have a point there. well, he does have a point but the question is whether he has a strategy to make it effective. that s what we saw play out in the shutdown last fall which hurt the republican party, certainly for a time, and what happened this week when a dozen republicans parted company with him to make sure that there could be a vote on this. they all then voted against raising the debt ceiling but made sure it went through without any disruption.
megyn kelly. it turned into a three day story already. people keep talking about it. it was a commanding performance, the speech he gave. he definitely has a base that is committed to him. the headline is he s going to sign up for obamacare because his wife is taking a leave of absence so he ll sign up through his employer which means obamacare. speaking of obama people have said you re like our current president a first term senator. senator cruz doesn t like that comparison listen to this. there are marked differences between my background and his. we went to harvard. in his time in the senate he was a back benture. in my time of the senate there are a lot of faults i have but nobody would accuse me of being a back benture. that is how he s trying to