Senate Dems are going in on Orange Man…

Reid: Cruz Tells House GOP What To Do

“Instead of reading the writing on the wall, House Republicans have turned to a new idea: To cherry-pick a few parts of the got (sic) they like,” he added. “Credit for this idea goes, I’m told, goes to the junior senator from Texas. He goes over to the House and tells them what they should do, he along with people like Bachmann and the tea party.”

Schumer: Boehner ‘A Puppet — With Ted Cruz Pulling The Strings’

“Speaker Boehner is in this position because, sadly, he’s become a puppet — with Ted Cruz pulling the strings,” Schumer told reporters, elevating the rhetoric 36 hours after the first shutdown since 1996.

“When Sen. Cruz told Speaker Boehner to take up a crusade to defund Obamacare, the Speaker did it,” said the No. 3 Senate Democrat. “When Sen. Cruz told the Speaker to delay Obamacare for a year, the Speaker did it. And when [Cruz] told the House pass piecemeal bills in a cynical attempt to pit important programs against each other, the Speaker is now trying to do that.”

I believe this is referred to as ‘driving a wedge.’