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Angry Republicans confront Ted Cruz during closed door lunch meeting. “It was very evident to everyone in the room that Cruz doesn’t have a strategy."

"What should we do next? I'm sorry I did not think of that."

Courtesy of Politico:

Ted Cruz faced a barrage of hostile questions Wednesday from angry GOP senators, who lashed the Texas tea party freshman for helping prompt a government shutdown crisis without a strategy to end it.

At a closed-door lunch meeting in the Senate’s Mansfield Room, Republican after Republican pressed Cruz to explain how he would propose to end the bitter budget impasse with Democrats, according to senators who attended the meeting. A defensive Cruz had no clear plan to force an end to the shutdown — or explain how he would defund Obamacare, as he has demanded all along, sources said.

Things got particularly heated when Cruz was asked point-blank if he would renounce attacks waged on GOP senators by the Senate Conservatives Fund, an outside group that has aligned itself closely with the Texas senator.

Cruz’s response: “I will not,” according to an attendee.

“It was very evident to everyone in the room that Cruz doesn’t have a strategy – he never had a strategy, and could never answer a question about what the end-game was,” said one senator who attended the meeting. “I just wish the 35 House members that have bought the snake oil that was sold could witness what was witnessed today at lunch.”

“He kept trying to change the subject because he never could answer the question,” the senator said. “It’s pretty evident it’s never been about a strategy – it’s been about him. That’s unfortunate. I think he’s done our country a major disservice. I think he’s done Republicans a major disservice.”

You know if this keeps going much longer Cruz will replace McCarthy as the example of arrogant megalomania gone amok in Washington.

The end game might not simply find Ted Cruz isolated from his fellow Republican Senators, but actually tarred and feathered and run out of town. The man is essentially destroying what little is left of the Republican's reputation.

Of course what could you expect from a Tea Party bomb thrower whose biggest supporter was Sarah Palin?

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