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I heard somebody say that spending under the new omnibus has been looking like a jailbreak. Ironically, the sequester did manage to check wild spending liberals to some degree, I say ironically because it was the brainchild of the Obama administration and Boehner took him up on it.

Republicans are afraid to take Obama on, and though we don't know exactly why, it is a bet they've not been willing to make. The media role in the past 7 years cannot be overstated either. Harry Reid held control over the US Senate for those years and anything Dems didn't like got ignored. To make things even worse, the media said nada about the truth of the situation, while collaboratively branding Republicans who did not want to be herded like swine as inflexible obstructionists. Therefore, when the inevitable showdowns came down to government shutdowns, the media laid the blame at the feet of Republicans knowing full well the "change" being foisted upon us was coming 100% from the Dems. One thing is undeniable, the unilateral actions taken so far by Dems have certainly been no joke. ObamaCare, DADT, The Dream Act, forced immigration from Syria no less, and looming on the horizon the specter of gun control.

It sort of feels like Viet Nam all over again. The closer one gets to the end of his tour of duty, the more he worries he might not make it out alive. One year and counting.

Fox is now in full Rubio mode. This evening, I watched Greta, who I generally feel is one of the most fair interviewers left on FNC, grill Cruz over Rubio's lies about Cruz's record on the Gang of Eight's amnesty bill. Cruz's explanation of his amendment made perfect sense to me, but it seemed as if Greta was wearing earplugs.

Cruz said the amendment that he proposed was one page long and would have added language to Rubio's bill that would have barred illegal aliens from ever getting citizenship. Instead of reading the bill, Greta kept reading a single sentence from a letter that was signed by Cruz, Jeff Sessions, Mike Lee, and Steve King, all of whom opposed the Rubio-Schumer bill.

Last night, I watched Brett Baier, who was apparently working from the same script as Greta, give Cruz the same third degree and asking him virtually the same questions. Apparently FNC employees have their marching orders from Ailes and Company.

Today's FNC poll shows Hillary beating Trump by 8 points in a head-to-head match-up - with Cruz in a dead heat with her. If Cruz can win Iowa, I believe that the race will tighten up quickly.

I thought Rubio showed very bad judgment in missing the vote on the spending bill. He has also made a big mistake in attacking Cruz on immigration. The "everybody else was doing the same thing" argument is a weak one, even when it is true. I remember Cruz going on the Rush Limbaugh show to urge listeners to call Congress to urge their representatives to vote against the Gang of Eight bill.

Rubio is a fool to claim that Cruz supported amnesty just like he supported it himself. You don't win conservative votes by becoming a target of both Rush and Mark Levin and his lies about Cruz's record has placed him in their crosshairs.