Time Is Short, but G.O.P. Leaders Say Shutdown Can Be Avoided

Brian Knowlton & Jeremy W. Peters, writing for the New York Times:

“There’s no reason the Senate should be home on vacation” at such a time, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, one of the sharpest critics of the health care law, said Sunday on the NBC program “Meet the Press.”

The same Ted Cruz who delayed this whole process single-handedly by nearly a day?

The hypocrisy in Congress blows my mind sometimes.