Ted Cruz Wants Media to Cut It Out with the Questions About Gov’t Shutdown

Via Yahoo News’ Chris Moody, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is so over the government shutdown he helped to engineer last October, and that cost his party greatly in the polls. Cruz doesn’t get why the press won’t stop asking about it:

“I understand that there are a lot of folks in the media that love to talk about the shutdown from four months ago. What we ought to be talking about is the fact that we have the lowest labor force participating in 30 years since 1978, that Obamacare has taken away more than 5 million people’s health insurance plans, that people are hurting, that income inequality has increased under the Obama agenda and that there is an abuse of power and lawlessness,” Cruz said. “So that’s what we ought to be talking about. Efforts that distract from that conversation, I think, are deliberate efforts of smoke and mirrors distracting from the questions coming from the American people.”

Cruz was grilled on the shutdown by a smiling Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation just this Sunday.

[h/t Yahoo News]

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