If that ridiculous brushback pitch by Mark Salter, the former chief of staff for John McCain, was aimed at convincing Ted Cruz to stop criticizing the GOP leadership in Congress for refusing to fight, it didn’t work.

Cruz went on Mark Levin’s show last night and, if anything, he turned up the heat on the leadership.

The show begins with an interesting comparison – the similar relationships between Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama, and Obama and Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell. And it goes from there.