US Senator Insults Nigeria In A bid To Mock Obama.

HOUSTON (CBS Houston/AP)— Republican
Sen. Ted Cruz compared the glitches
plaguing the website for President Barack
Obama’s signature health care law to the
methodologies of “Nigerian email
scammers.”
The Tea Party favorite received a rousing
ovation during a rally of more than 1,000
supporters Monday in Houston while
speaking out about the Affordable Care Act,
known also as Obamacare.
“You may have noticed that all the Nigerian
email scammers have become a lot less
active lately,” Cruz said, according to the
Houston Chronicle. “They all have been
hired to run the Obamacare website.”
Cruz told supporters that he’s working for
them and not for D.C. “party bosses.”
“People are saying mean things about me,”
Cruz said, according to the Chronicle. “Who
cares? At the end of the day, I don’t work
for the party bosses in Washington. I work
for each and every one of you. What they
don’t understand is that we’re standing
here together. We’ve got a problem in
Washington. They’re not listening to the
American people.”
Cruz staged a quasi-filibuster for over 21
hours in the Senate late last month,
helping spark a budget fight in the
Republican-led House that partially
shuttered the government in an attempt to
sever funding for the nation’s new health
care law.
Then, with the country facing a debt
default, leaders in the Democratic-led
Senate brokered a deal to end the standoff
— which Cruz dismissed as “selling the
American people down the river.”
“You don’t win a fight when your own team
is firing cannons at the people who are
standing up and leading, which are the
House Republicans,” he said.
The deal sets up the potential for another
budget showdown in January. Senate GOP
leaders, however, have suggested that
there won’t be a repeat of the shutdown or
a potential default crisis like in recent
weeks.
Some political observers now see Cruz as
Texas’ most popular Republican. But his
approval ratings across the country may be
slipping.
National polls have shown that while
Americans in general don’t love the health
care law, they oppose defunding it —
especially if it means shutting down the
government. And many of Cruz’s Senate
colleagues have bemoaned the shutdown
for tarnishing the GOP’s image
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