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Meanwhile, clearly no end to the rift among conservatives over the wisdom of allowing a partial U.S. government shutdown & the threat of default. One prominent conservative, Ryan Ellis, director of tax policy for Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform, recently equated Ted Cruz & the others to terrorists on a list serv informally called the Repeal Coalition List: "The Repeal Coalition was hijacked by Defund terrorists. They flew the plane in a new direction and assured us that x, y, & z would follow. Not only did they not follow, but, in fact, a, b, and c happened..." Ellis refused comment on the e-mail, noting the list was private. But, he had ridiculed Cruz's tactics in The DAILY CALLER: "Much like the Vietnam War, things didn't go quite as planned for the self-appointed 'best and the brightest'. (Note the dripping sarcasm.) He also tweeted that Tea Party activists were "freakin' retarded." http://www.delaware1059.com/blog/post.php?postid=3711&src=N

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