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Ted cruz is backing down. remember this ted cruz? >> we saw the house of representatives stand strong, listen to the people, and stand strong against obama care. sadly as you just noted, what we then saw was senate republicans not unite but be divided. if senate republicans had united and supported house republicans, supported the american people, we could have had a very different outcome. >> that was ted cruz talking two weeks ago. actually while congress was still voting to open the government, raise the debt ceiling, and yes, continue funding the affordable care act to. day politico report...

>> i pointed out earlier today it's an interesting situation that ted cruz taking a strong stand on principle and fighting for what he promised on the campaign trail is almost an insult to the old guard g.o.p. establish independent d.c. so i don't think that's much of a surprise. when folks think about this fight to defund and the government shutting down don't think it was a lack of the ability to beat the democrats per se. i think the problem was the republicans that we have in d.c. right now, which i something that the madison project is working on, with other allied groups like senate cons...

Four times as much as originally slated and is behind schedules seven years and counting. and yet there it is, in the legislative language of last night's deal, after a government shutdown ostensibly about government waste and the debt and deficit. and so the senate conservative fund, by calling it the kentucky kickback, immediately fingered the culprit, mitch mcconnell, that dastardly barren of the senate is trying to knock off with a primary challenge to his right. and pinning it on mcconnell was not a ridiculous assumption. here's mitch mcconnell in 2009, visiting the ohmstead locks and dam...

Government waste and the debt and deficit. and so the senate conservative fund, by calling it the kentucky kickback, immediately fingered the culprit, mitch mcconnell, that dastardly barren of the senate is trying to knock off with a primary challenge to his right. and pinning it on mcconnell was not a ridiculous assumption. here's mitch mcconnell in 2009, visiting the ohmstead locks and dam project. mcconnell has secured earmarks for the project before, hundreds of millions of dollars, up to 2009. >> our goal would be to try to meet the annual challenges and to keep this project as close to o...

Think are even less happy with him than you sound. >> well, they handed it to him. i was told that they were meeting, and that most republican senators i was told by republican source in the room spoke out against him. this is what one source said to me. cruz was completely unapologetic about the ads that he is featured in on the senate conservative fund web site that attack other republicans. that's what they're mad about. he sees himself as the only truly pure are. his colleagues are furious. he has no successful strategy but has managed to generate grassroots support. >> that's a republican...