Jennifer Rubin goes after Ted Cruz

Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) recent antics in the Senate drew the ire of right-wing columnist and blogger Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post on Monday.

After several Republican colleagues privately confronted the conservative firebrand over his effort to filibuster all debate on expanding background checks, Cruz broke protocol and recounted to a gathering of Texas tea partiers that he had called them “squishes” not worthy of the cause.

“There is being principled, and then there is being a jerk,” Rubin wrote. “Putting down your colleagues to boost your own street cred with the base falls into the latter category.”

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