Norquist: Defund Obamacare Pushers Owe Fellow GOPers 'A Big Apology'

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Norquist: Defund Obamacare Pushers Owe Fellow GOPers 'A Big Apology'

Americans for Tax Reform Leader Grover Norquist slammed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and his fellow tea partiers who pushed a defund-Obamacare strategy in an interview with the National Review.

"It’d be a good idea if they stopped referring to other Republicans as Hitler appeasers because they opposed the strategy they put forward which failed," Norquist told National Review's Betsy Woodruff. "I think if you make a mistake as big as what they did, you owe your fellow senators and congressmen a big apology — and your constituents, as well, because nothing they did advanced the cause of repealing or dismantling Obamacare."

Though Norquist didn't name specific Republicans, he singled out the strategy championed by Cruz.

"They hurt the conservative movement, they hurt people’s health care, they hurt the country’s economic situation and they hurt the Republican party," Norquist continued. "And a lot of congressmen and senators are not going to win because we spent three months chasing our own tail — or at least, parts of the conservative movement spent three months chasing their own tail."

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/norquist-defund-obamacare-pushers-owe-fellow-gopers-a-big-apology

Fuck you, Grover.

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[liberal N proud]

1. Grover owes America a great big appology

[Ilsa]

2. Norquist is a coward for not naming Cruz, et al. nt

[Squinch]

7. Norquist is a coward for not naming Cruz AND Norquist.

One is the intellectual child of the other.

[libdem4life]

3. The Long Knives are out.

[riversedge]

4. Mr. Cruz--You owe all of America an apology. I know..

I will not hold my breath.

[Rex]

5. Wow the rats that fled the ship are now stranded on a hill

and are eating each other! This is amazing...never in a million years would I believe Green Eggs and Ham could cause this kind of mayhem! Only a really really stupid moran (think Dubya) would be at the level of a Ted Cruz.

My state creates some of the worst creatures to crawl into a D.C. sewer.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Green Eggs and Ham has turned into The Lord of the Flies.

[Douglas Carpenter]

8. When Grover Norquist, Peter King and Pat Robertson are the GOP's voices of reason - The Republican

Party is in trouble.

[arely staircase]

9. holy shit, grover?

They are totally in freefallclusterfuckcircularfiringsquad mode.