Ted Cruz believes that the Republicans could have won the fight to defund Obamacare if they had just been willing to accuse the Democrats of holding children with cancer hostage.

Courtesy of Raw Story:

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) says that Republicans could have won the fight to derail President Barack Obama’s health care law by shutting down the government if they had just accused the Democrats holding children with cancer “hostage.” 

In an interview that aired on Sunday, CNN’s Dana Bash asked Cruz if he was bothered on a “human level” that so many colleagues in his own party were angry at him for instigating the shutdown. 

“Not remotely,” Cruz insisted. “I work for 26 million Texans, that’s my job to fight for them. I don’t work for the party bosses in Washington… The reason people are frustrated all over the country is that far too many people get elected and they think they’re there to be part of the club.” 

The Texas senator observed that things could have turned out differently if Senate Republicans had “marched into battle side by side” with House Republicans to defund Obamacare. 

But Bash noted that Democrats had the successful strategy in the end. 

Cruz, however, reminded Bash of an exchange she had with Senate Majority Harry Reid (D-NV) about a Republican plan to fund the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other selective parts of the government during the shutdown. 

A controversy had erupted at the time when Bash asked Reid if it would be worth it if he could help “one child” with cancer. 

During the interview that aired on Sunday, Cruz said that Reid showed Democrats were “vulnerable” and that Republicans should have used children with cancer as a pressure point to win the fight against health care reform. 

“President Obama and the Democrats’ position throughout this is, ‘We will not negotiate, we will not compromise, shut it all down.’ That’s not a reasonable position,” he explained. “If Senate Republicans had united and supported House Republicans, if we had 46 Senate Republicans on television every day, in the media every day making the point, ‘Why won’t they fund the VA, why are they holding our veterans hostage? Why won’t they fund the NIH, why are they holding kids with illnesses hostage?’” 

“That’s a fight we could win because their position was unreasonable.”

"Unreasonable?" It might be worthwhile to point out here that those children are now receiving those services denied to them by the government shutdown. As are the veterans. While police are also now being paid, national parks are being opened, and the government is back up and running. And instead of picking and choosing who is worthy of receiving assistance or their paychecks, and who is not, the government is simply now able to do its job.

All of its jobs.

THAT was what the Democrats were fighting for. That and taking the power away from a handful of domestic terrorists who wanted to hold, not just cancer stricken children, but the entire country hostage.

And do you know what? Now that the Tea-borg has failed to beat the President they have turned their anger toward those who have not yet been absorbed into the collective.

This from Politico:

Hard-line conservatives aren’t just sticking it to the national GOP by shutting down the government and bringing the nation to the brink of default — they’re also refusing to pony up to help their party defend the House in 2014. 

With a little more than a year until the midterm election, many leaders of the shutdown strategy have yet to donate to the National Republican Congressional Committee, records show. At least eight of the debate’s 20 or so most outspoken figures have not given any money to the NRCC, and others have forked over token amounts. 

Their refusal to contribute to the House GOP’s political arm, coming as Republicans are getting thumped by Democrats in the money race, is causing heartburn and frustration among Republican strategists charged with laying the groundwork for next year’s races. They say it is reinforcing a perception of the conservative gang that they’re out only for themselves and don’t much care about advancing the party’s larger cause. 

Yes, they are eating their own now.

So for those who thought that Palin's crazed diatribe against the Republican party yesterday, meant that she had gone all "mavericky," and was not longer taking orders from the Koch brothers and Heritage Foundation, it appears such is not the case.

She is simply among those GOP insurgents who are determined to either completely reshape the Republican party or destroy it from within.

There is a part of me that simply wants to sit back and watch the fun, but then I imagine a GOP run by the likes of Ted Cruz, a man who would have gladly used cancer stricken children as pawns in a power play against the Democrats, and I realize I really do have a dog in this fight.

And it is a dog that might be willing to live in harmony with others, NOT a rabid cur growling and snapping at everything, and everyone, who approaches, and is not similarly afflicted with their sickness.