Report: Cruz Meets With House Conservatives In Restaurant Basement

[ProSense]

Report: Cruz Meets With House Conservatives In Restaurant Basement

With the Senate closing in on a deal to avert default and reopen the shuttered government, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) reportedly huddled Monday night with some of the most conservative members of the House of Representatives.

Citing unnamed sources, Roll Call reported that Cruz and "roughly 15 to 20 House Republicans" met for about two hours in the basement of Tortilla Coast, a Tex-Mex restaurant on Capitol Hill.

According to Roll Call, Cruz and the House members were eventually spotted by House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who "seemed particularly interested in what the group was up to."

Attendees reportedly included Reps. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Steve King (R-IA), Jim Jordan (R-OH), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Raúl R. Labrador (R-ID), Steve Southerland II (R-FL), Mark Meadows (R-NC) and Justin Amash (R-MI).

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/report-cruz-meets-with-house-conservatives-in-restaurant-basement

Republicans are batshit crazy

House GOPer Slams Pending Deal From 'Senate Surrender Caucus'

Senate leaders said Monday that they are nearing a deal to reopen the government and increase the debt limit, but at least one House Republican is down on the measure's prospects in the lower chamber.

“We’ve got a name for it in the House: it’s called the Senate surrender caucus,” Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) said, as quoted by the New York Times. “Anybody who would vote for that in the House as Republican would virtually guarantee a primary challenger.”

Because Huelskamp and other House conservatives remain determined to strike at some part of the Affordable Care Act, the pending deal in the Senate is anything but a slam dunk.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), whose effort to defund the health care law helped trigger the shutdown, reportedly met Monday with a group of some of the House's most ardent conservatives in the basement of a Capitol Hill restaurant.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/house-goper-slams-pending-deal-from-senate-surrender-caucus

Poll: New High For Disapproval Of GOP's Handling Of Budget Talks
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023847823

[reflection]

1. Tortilla Coast, huh?

[Thinkingabout]

2. This is definitely a group of names which should be primaried and remove this garbage from Congress.

This bunch does not give confidence in any governing and are destroyers. I think Cruz is attempting to become our first dictator.

[ProSense]

3. Take out all the "garbage."

For Paul Ryan, default threat is 'leverage' for taking women's birth control
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023849460

I'd love to see 100 Republicans, including Boehner, lose their seat.

[Andy823]

4. I have a feeling

The republican party is getting tired of the tea party clowns, and the big money donors are going to make sure these idiots don't get back in office. A lot of money was spent to put these idiots in office because the GOP "thought" they could control them. Well we all know that isn't working out. People like Rove have already stated making plans to dump these clowns, and if the money dries up, so do they.

I even think that the big money donors don't really care if a democrat ends up taking their place, the bottom line is to get rid of the trouble makers and then try and rebuild the party, which could take a long time. If the don't get rid of them, well the whole republican party will become a thing of he past.

[Blue Owl]

5. Now's the time he might worry about disappearing

[Gothmog]

6. Juanita Jean had some fun comments about this meeting

http://www.juanitajean.com/2013/10/15/low-as-a-moles-navel-on-digging-day/

Can you spell o-b-s-e-s-s-i-o-n? Cruz is even considering another filibuster. You know, because the first one worked so well.

The best part of their little Boys Only Club meeting? They got caught by Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, who was not invited to the conservative cabal but was a tad interested in what the fool damn tarnation did they think they were doing.

So even if a deal is reached, these clowns aren’t getting back into the clown car and leaving the circus. No, siree. They will have all three rings filled with tomfoolery.

And I don’t want to be one of those people who says which side won or lost, but I will say this: If there is a black man in the White House when this is over, Republicans did not get what they really wanted.

[BluegrassStateBlues]

7. No infrastructure failure? What a shame. nt