Politico’s Burgess Everett became the latest mainstream media reporter to inaccurately smear
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) late Sunday, attempting to argue in his headline that Cruz
is trying to “scramble” to “salvage” his Obamacare defunding strategy.
“Ted Cruz and his allies are fighting a battle they will almost certainly
lose in the Senate this week,” Everett wrote for Politico in a story posted
late Sunday. “The freshman Republican from Texas, along with Sen. Mike Lee
(R-Utah) and some vocal House conservatives, pushed House Republican leaders to
pass a bill Friday that funds the government until Dec. 15 at a $986 billion
annual funding level but denies money for Obamacare’s implementation. That
defunding provision is a nonstarter with President Barack Obama and Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who says it’s ‘dead’ in his chamber.”
But this is not an accurate representation of Cruz' plan. This entire
strategy is what Cruz and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) articulated from the start. In
interviews with Breitbart News from July, both Cruz and Lee laid out exactly this strategy.....To Read More...
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