In the bulk of an interview previewed earlier this week, Sen. Ted Cruz defended himself from the charge that he had caused the shutdown.
When Karl insisted that “there never would have been a shutdown if you hadn’t gone with this strategy of saying, ‘we’re not going to even fund the government for six weeks unless we can defund Obamacare,” Cruz reasoned that “There never would have been a shutdown if Harry Reid and President Obama hadn’t said, ‘We will not compromise. We will not negotiate. Shut the government down.'”
The fact of the matter is never before in the history of the US has a budget negotiation been predicated on repealing existing law.
And further – it bears pointing out that the Affordable Care Act IS the negotiated result. What President Obama and Dems wanted was not what we ended up with. The Repubs in Congress “negotiated” down to this.
AND it is helping millions of people. Lower rates (my own are going down $2,000 a year), plus people with pre-existing conditions can get coverage as well as young Americans up to the age of 26. These are all good things.
It’s as if Ted Cruz just keeps repeating what he wants America to believe, and through repetition – like hypnosis – the country will just believe.
My apologies, but the man seems delusional.
