Texas Senator Ted Cruz tells Laura Ingraham:

"He (Obama) is feeling right now high on his own power, and he is pushing on every front, on guns. And I think it's really sad to see the president of the United States exploiting the murder of children and using it to push his own extreme, anti-gun agenda. I think what the president is proposing and the gun control proposals that are coming from Democrats in the Senate are, number one, unconstitutional, and number two, they don't work. They're bad policy."

"I think he's going to pay a serious political price, and I think the price that's going to be paid on this is going to manifest in Senate races in 2014, in some red states. And there have got to be some Democrats who are up for reelection in 2014 who are very, very nervous right now that President Obama is picking this fight."

Cruz is on to something. But what does the President care if a few Democrats are sacrificed to his agenda. He didn't care in 2010. And he's not running again.

Meanwhile, Sen. Majority "Leader" Harry "Do Nothing" Reid is down in his spider hole, trying to prevent the sort of political debate that a working democracy demands.