Is Republican Sen. Ted Cruz really a sleeper agent for the Dems? Via Washington Posts’ Ezra Klein:

“Democrats managed to get the budget conference they’ve been pursuing for six months. They got a CR of the length they wanted and ending before the next sequestration cuts rather than six-month CR that Sen. Susan Collins proposed. They got a debt-ceiling increase all the way into February…[T]he strategy Ted Cruz managed to force on the GOP was so suicidal that Democrats felt comfortable forcing Republicans to cave completely.”

Perhaps Brad Keithley should take notes. Joke!