Shutdown threat reveals split in Republican Party

[Crabtownboy]

War between the parties ... Tea Party vs. GOP

WASHINGTON — With one week left before a possible government shutdown, congressional debate has exposed deep divisions within the Republican Party, pitting tea-party-backed conservatives against their colleagues.

Budget moves orchestrated by tea party leader Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas have encountered outright hostility from fellow Republican senators who say his strategy does not appear to have an endgame.

"I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count," Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said last week in a not-so-veiled swipe on Twitter at Cruz, who studied at both schools. Cruz's strategy is leading the party into a "box canyon" and "will fail and weaken our position," Corker said.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-government-shutdown-20130923,0,1632783.story

 

[thisnumbersdisconnected]

The "deep division" is between Mario Cruz and the GOP leadership. Wishful thinking, CTB, wishful thinking. On your part, and the liberally biased, Great Pretender lapdog outlet, The LA Times.

 

[InTheLight]

The "deep division" is between Mario Cruz and the GOP leadership.

“I think it’s a great attempt to raise the issue of some of the weaknesses and the problems with Obamacare, but it’s not a tactic that we can actually carry out and be successful,” Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.) said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” If Republicans had enough votes in the Senate, Coburn added, he “would be in the fight.”