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Why Ted Cruz is 'a laughingstock'

<div class="imgon2"><img alt="U.S. Sen. Harry Reid speaks at the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas, 08/07/12. (photo: AP)" border="0" height="181" src="http://readersupportednews.org/images/stories/article_imgs7/7471-harry-reid-vegas-080712.jpg" style="border: 0px none;" title="U.S. Sen. Harry Reid speaks at the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas, 08/07/12. (photo: AP)" width="400" /> U.S. Sen. Harry Reid speaks at the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas, 08/07/12. (photo: AP)</div><div class="noslink"></div> <div class="txtauthor"> </div><div class="txtauthor">By Elias Isquith, Salon</div><div class="date">20 October 13</div><div class="date"><a href="http://readersupportednews.org/">readersupportednews.org</a> </div>  <blockquote>Senate majority leader goes off on Tea Party's favorite senator</blockquote> <img border="0" src="http://readersupportednews.org/images/stories/alphabet/rsn-H.jpg" />arry Reid is certainly not the first politician to take a shot at Ted Cruz, but his attack might be the most personal. <div class="indent">"Ted Cruz, well, he proved he has a great fundraising operation," Reid dismissively told <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/17/harry-reid-vitter_n_4118512.html?utm_hp_ref=tw" target="_blank">the Huffington Post</a>. "But you don't have to have Harry Reid criticizing him. Republicans criticized him."</div><div class="indent"> </div><div class="indent">"He is a laughingstock to everybody but him," Reid continued.</div><div class="indent"> </div><div class="indent">Reid was no less caustic when discussing Cruz's presidential ambitions, saying, "What has he accomplished other than raising some money for president? And if this man can get the nomination to be the Republican nominee for president, I pity the Republican Party."</div><div class="indent"> </div><div class="indent">The Senate majority leader then got even more personal in his attack, essentially accusing Cruz of overestimating his own intelligence:</div><blockquote>Ted Cruz is smart. He has always been able to talk down to people. He is now in the Senate. People are as smart as he is. He can't talk down to anyone anymore. But he has still not accepted that in his own head. He still thinks he's smarter than everybody else. He might be able to work a calculus problem better than I can. But he can't legislate better than I can.</blockquote>

U.S. Sen. Harry Reid speaks at the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas, 08/07/12. (photo: AP) By Elias Isquith, Salon 20 October 13 ...

Why Ted Cruz is 'a laughingstock'

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