According to Frank Bruni, Wallace did a great job of showing up Ted Cruz for the $%*! the senator has become. Cruz wound up with a lot more than just a misguggled thrapple .
For starters there’s Chris Wallace’s demeanor: I would almost swear I caught him holding his nose. There’s his bafflement, the bafflement of an entire nation, about what Cruz hopes to accomplish with his doomed campaign to defund Obamacare. (Hint: he keeps himself in the spotlight. Could a cause be worthier?)
There’s Cruz’s sickly look after Wallace recites derisive statements about him from fellow Republicans and he’s reminded that even in his party and even on Fox, the distaste for him is robust. ...Bruni, NYT
Now Senator Cruz is reduced to acting the martyr. No wonder! It’s getting to the point where other rightwing are rejecting the egotist.
Cruz doesn’t come across so winningly in a recent profile in The Weekly Standard, which, like Fox, is supposed to be friendly turf.
Its author, Andrew Ferguson, describes a car ride in which he mulls hurling himself out the door, no matter how rocky his landing, rather than listen to Cruz for another second. The Senate can relate….Bruni,NYT
Hurl himself out of the car? Two bits that’s what House Republicans are considering as they gradually come to realize that Cruz is using them (and making damfools out of them) for his own political ends.