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Conservative Representative from California accuses Ted Cruz of lying about the shutdown. Now we're talking!

Courtesy of My Desert:

Rep. Devin Nunes, a conservative Republican from California’s Central Valley, on Monday accused freshman GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of lying to House Republicans that they could dismantle the Democratic health care reform law known as Obamacare by forcing a government shutdown.

Nunes, R-Tulare, said the strategy pursued by Cruz, a Texas freshman, and to a lesser extent Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is “based on a false premise” because Republicans can’t get two-thirds votes in the House and the Senate to override President Barack Obama’s veto when he rejects any bill that ends his signature law.

Obama and the Democratic-majority Senate have refused to entertain any legislation passed by the GOP-majority House that would overhaul, change, delay or end the health care law. The partial shutdown is nearly a week old with no deal to end it in sight.

Nunes said Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has run into a wall of opposition from Cruz’s House allies to any shutdown-averting deal.

“It’s really difficult at this time until the Cruz people decide and admit to our base that their whole premise of getting rid of Obamacare by shutting down our government was a lie,” Nunes said. “This is his strategy that he’s laid out, spent money on and he’s got a lot of members of the Congress to go along with.”

Cruz’s office didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

Well it is good to finally see a Republican talking honestly about what Cruz and his lackeys are doing.

Now if only the REST of the Republicans would join him, we might actually be able to save the damn country!

However before we get too excited it should be noted that Nunes is already walking back his previous statement in which he said he would support a clean funding bill if it were brought to the House floor.

I guess finding courage within the Republican is becoming harder than finding birth control in a Palin household.

As for Cruz I think Saturday Night Live hit it right on the head this last weekend.

Where is Homeland Security when you need it?

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