Quote: According to your link:

 

1.While Ted Cruz was part of the Heritage foundation presentation, jumping to the conclusion that he influenced the House is a reach. Lots of people lobbied for defunding Obamacare, and Cruz was a freshman senator. He had less influence in the House than just about every lobbyist in DC.


 

2. And the second House budget, which only included some delays that Obama eventually ended up instituting unilaterally, was in time to prevent a government shutdown but was rejected by the Harry Reid. Harry Reid is 100% responsible for the delay in salary of the government employees, and the loss of pay by contractor employees. He was the one who put his politicking ahead of the security of the government employees. Had he just passed the 2nd House bill everything would have ended up the same except there would have been no shutdown.


 

All that is in the link you provided.

 

I appreciate that you read the link.  I think you have a better understanding of the history now.  But what you are pointing out now are opinions based on the facts as are presented.

 

You're entitled do them, but I disagree.

 

First, it's not a stretch to consider Cruz as the guy that was ring leader for the shut down.  If you google it, you'll find many articles from Politico, Salon, and the Wall Street Journal that use the term "architect" for the wall street shut down.  Don't forget, Cruz has presented multiple cases in front of the US Supreme Court.  Let's not pretend that just because he was a 1st term senator that he's some hayseed from Texas.  This dude is slime.  He pretends to be these things, but he's a snake.  

 

As for your send point.  Again, I disagree with your analysis of the facts and I'll refer you to my sushi parable.  (I'm very proud of that parable, I think I'm gonna publish it on imgur or reddit or something).

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