[sickoflibs]

From editorial :”If we can hold on to 41 Republicans in the Senate or 218 Republicans in the House, we can actually succeed in defunding Obamacare,” Cruz told Sean Hannity of Fox News. “

Except Obamacare funding was exempt from shutdowns so it remained funded the entire two week shutdown. Its funding didn't depend on a new budget being passed.

In fact a number of posts here explicitly warned about this.

So it was clearly untrue, shutting down the government would not defund Obamacare.

[2ndDivisionVet]

So you’re smarter than Ted Cruz? What physics lab do you work at?