Rick Santorum On Ted Cruz: 'He Has Absolutely Done Nothing'
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Presidential candidate and former Senator from Pennsylvania Rick Santorum criticized Republicans in Washington, particularly Texas Senator and Presidential rival Ted Cruz for their lack of accomplishment during the years President Obama has been in the White House.
Santorum, during and interview with Dom Giordano on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT, said that Republicans talk a good game, but when it comes time for action, they have nothing.
"It's important, if you're going to go nuclear, to actually have a plan. This is the problem that the Republicans have. In fact, many of the ones who are running for President is they go out there and they say, we're going to do this and they don't do the hard work that's necessary to actually put a coalition together to accomplish it. It's more about self aggrandizement than it is about actually making anything happen. It's not easy to pass anything in the United States Senate unless you're willing to do the hard work of pulling together the coalition to make something happen. It's never going to happen."
He singled out Cruz as an example of a politician who is more concerned with attracting attention than doing their job.
"The leaders of the conservatives, and he is certainly one of them, and I would make the argument, if you look at his record of accomplishment, it amounts to zero. He has absolutely done nothing. He's blown some things up, but he hasn't built anything that's going to be helpful for the conservative movement or this country."
Santorum stated Republicans in Washington are, at times, engaged in a war with themselves and don't have the adequate leadership to sort out differences.
"What we have, in my opinion, is a bunch of stodgy old establishment Republicans who don't want to change anything and the folks who are actually trying to go there and change something, they have, unfortunately, not particularly good leadership and they're more interested in promoting themselves, as opposed to actually passing something that can effective for the country."
