{"id":101945,"date":"2013-12-30T15:43:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T15:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/sen-ted-cruz-blames-obama-reid-for-government-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2013-12-30T15:43:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T15:43:17","slug":"sen-ted-cruz-blames-obama-reid-for-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/sen-ted-cruz-blames-obama-reid-for-government-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ted Cruz Blames Obama, Reid for Government Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Benjamin Bell<\/strong><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2013\/12\/sen-ted-cruz-blames-obama-reid-for-government-shutdown-talks-coloring-book\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">abcnews.go.com<\/a><br \/>December 30, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Firebrand conservative Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, expressed no regrets over his role in this fall&#8217;s government shutdown today in an exclusive interview with ABC&#8217;s Jonathan Karl for \u201cThis Week,\u201d placing the blame for the 16-day closure squarely on the shoulders of Democratic leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown,\u201d the freshman senator said when asked if pushing the strategy linking funding the government to the funding of Obamacare was a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>When reminded by Karl that even Republican House Speaker John Boehner took conservative groups to task for pushing a faulty strategy, Cruz said \u201cI can&#8217;t help what other people say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article was posted: Monday, December 30, 2013  at  9:34 am<\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p><!-- share and follow --><!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p>&lt;!&#8211; this is where we need to show the related articles  <\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles_container\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/sen-ted-cruz-blames-obama-reid-for-government-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Sen. Ted Cruz Blames Obama, Reid for Government Shutdown\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Bellabcnews.go.comDecember 30, 2013 Firebrand conservative Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, expressed no regrets over his role in this fall&#8217;s government shutdown today in an exclusive interview with ABC&#8217;s Jonathan Karl for \u201cThis Week,\u201d placing the blame for the 16-day closure squarely on the shoulders of Democratic leaders. \u201cI think it was absolutely a mistake for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-101945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}