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

http://houston.cbslocal.com/2013/10/22/cruz-nigerian-email-scammers-running-obamacare-website/

Who kon add salt 4 our injury. So sad my beloved con3 known 4 scammmimmmmmmmng. Yet all dos Aisha lady from mars won't stop spamming my mail from contract i neva bid 4.

The man was smoking some hard stuff, Aint good for his health

Its not his fault, na we cause am! It is sad because it is true.

That is not an insult to Nigeria.

He is Repping Naija

Can't he express himself without insulting others?
Some people are just pathetic and silly at the same time.

Though, it's not his fault, rather, that of some st*pid idiots who can't figure out ways to live apart from scamming unsuspecting victims.

This is exactly how the nazis started.They were allowed to run freely with their hate in what was suppose to be democratic germany and before the normal germans and the world realized it,they have imposed their evil agenda legitimately.

Why is he hating all over the place?
He asking for trouble! He dey find trouble abi? he no know say awa omo nja ni lori abi? mtcheew *takas and walks out of thread angrily*

But the Senator is saying that the emails has reduced na? That boys don they do other thinz like website design.

The senator isn't lying.

Ted Cruz is just grasping at straws. Yes, the Obamacare website has had a few glitches, but he is trying to distract from the fact that he led a fool's errand in trying to 'defund' the Health care law.

Poor attempt at a joke, from a dumb American.

Abeg I no fit laff. .

This is serious! It would have been a good springboard to cleanup our image.

But that's the truth....The first time most whites come in contact with Nigerians is usually due to scamming. Why should they not laugh at us when we have turned our country into a joke??

the joke is dry

Smh

he actually dissed the US Gov't in the process.
I don't see how that was a diss to Nigeria at all.

engrtee: the joke is dry

dryer than the mojave desert!

[size=29pt]and who is dis gay head??[/size]

seee d faggg i was thinking will run for president ...look yo GOP forget about the WHITE HOUSE FOREVER y'all bunch of schmucks....

Arosa: That is not an insult to Nigeria.

exactly

Ted Cruz is a racist stupid bastard_ who started the US govt shutdown for his own selfish reasons. I am not surprised to hear a quote coming from the likes of him. And trust me when I say this fool is going to run for the Republican presidential candidature come 2016.

d guy looks neat ,cute nd well-fed..

Bryt3: d guy looks neat ,cute nd well-fed..

Gay

*Kails*:
he actually dissed the US Gov't in the process.
I don't see how that was a diss to Nigeria at all.