As we reported past, Senator Ted Cruz joked, at the 2013 Values Voter Summit, that he may well be kidnapped and disappeared when he goes to the White Home this afternoon for a gathering with President Obama. On CNN Newsroom, anchor John Berman made the remark that the funny story was ironic as a result of “final person in the world the White Home wants to vanish at the moment is Ted Cruz. You can argue he’s doing the White House quite a few just right presently,” which elicited agreement from conservative commentator Will Cain.

Towards the top of his Values Voter Summit speech, Cruz advised the crowd that “this afternoon, President Obama has invited the Senate Republicans to the White House,” and brought, “So after leaving right here, I’m going to be going to the White Home. I’ll make a request, if I’m by no means viewed again, please send a search and rescue team.”

After pausing for laughter, Cruz added, “I very much hope day after today morning I don’t wake up amidst the Syrian rebels,” then replied to an target market member via pronouncing “But hear, that’s real, they’ll talk to us, not like this administration, you’re exactly right.”

Cruz also advised Republicans to proceed the shutdown combat. “None of us recognize what’s going to happen on this Obamacare fight presently,” he stated. “In my view, the Home of Representatives needs to maintain doing what it’s been doing, which is standing strong.”

Following Cruz’s speech, CNN anchor John Berman advised Will Cain that Cruz “made somewhat a comic story, truly in reality humorous joke,” however delivered “It’s slightly ironic, although, as a result of it’s essential to make the case, the final individual in the world the White House desires to vanish presently is Ted Cruz. One could argue he’s doing the White House quite a few excellent right now.”

“If that NBC poll is in point of fact definitive,” Cain responded, referencing the NBC News/Wall Side road Journal ballot that’s reportedly rocking Capitol Hill, “and also you recommend that his positions are responsible for that, yeah, these hecklers should get and out let him proceed his influence.”

Cain brought that “I consider Cruz. I need him to perform his objectives. However it all hinged on one factor. This is what separated Ted Cruz from Paul Ryan. Not their conservatism, but rather might he swing 5 senators? May you drive President Obama to decrease his personal bill? And the only manner to do this was to get the American public so for your side that they needed to reply. It doesn’t seem to be going well.”

The shutdown strategy that Sen. Cruz pushed, and is still pushing, has resulted in a raft of polls which have shifted public opinion, and in all probability the electoral winds, against Republicans.

Here’s the clip, from CNN Newsroom: