Piers Morgan has been losing endurance by way of the day over the government shutdown, and on Tuesday night time he battled Republican congresswoman Marsha Blackburn over who’s to blame more: President Obama and the Democrats, or Ted Cruz. Morgan argued that Cruz may be having a look out just a little more for his political career than the impending catastrophe for the usa, while Blackburn dismissed the speculation this struggle is at all about personalities.

Morgan instructed Blackburn that while she and Cruz will have some concepts about methods to deal with the u . s .’s long-term fiscal considerations, they may end up being “catastrophic” in the event that they’re being pushed as a result of the “outright selfishness of Ted Cruz and his colleagues.” When Blackburn protested once more, Morgan cried, “Oh come off it, Marsha!”

They went from side to side over who’s accountable, with Blackburn defending the GOP and Morgan paradoxically intoning, “You’ve been unbelievably accountable, which is why the government’s been shut down for two weeks.”

On the other hand, Morgan didn’t suppose the other facet used to be completely blameless, pronouncing that President Obama has been very poor about coping with this problem and has “no longer proven nice leadership” on this issue.

Watch the video below, via CNN:

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