Cruz Rankles GOP Colleagues

Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) “crusade to dismantle President Obama’s health care law has helped cement his status as an emerging hero of the Tea Party and conservative grass roots. But it is stoking resentment and derision from many other Republicans, including his own Senate colleagues, who see his campaign as impractical, self-interested and potentially damaging to the party’s electoral efforts in 2014 and beyond,” the New York Times reports.

Politico: “You can get ahead in politics by ticking off some of the people in Washington all of the time, or all of the people in Washington some of the time… Cruz is testing the consequences of ticking off everyone in Washington all of the time.”

David Hawkings: “Other than applause from a modest collection of fellow Republicans, did he gain much of genuine worth for his considerable talk-a-thon troubles? The ledger of political costs and benefits looks close to impossible to push toward balance.”