Posted on 10/10/2013 5:42:14 PM PDT by Whenifhow
Just as Republican leaders were exiting their meeting with President Obama at the White House Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was entering CNN's Crossfire, where he had to contend with Van Jones and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), without too much help from Newt Gingrich. Now that House Republicans are prepared to move forward with a short-term debt deal that doesn't touch the Affordable Care Act, Jones asked Cruz, "Do you feel like you owe your party an apology?"
Jones noted that the Republican Party has become incredibly unpopular under Cruz's "leadership," saying that since the Texas senator entered office in January he's become "the most prominent Republican in this town." After stressing that "we're all friends here," Jones asked Cruz:
"Do you feel like you owe your party an apology? Listen, you have people who believed in you, they believed that you were somehow going to be able to defund Obamacare, they believed the strategy of shutdown might have a chance. They followed you into a ditch. And now, there's obviously there's no chance Obamacare will be defunded and we're on the brink of a horrific default. Do you think that in the reflection of your own heart, you might say, 'You know what? I'm a new kid here, I think I owe you an apology'?" Cruz laughed at first before getting more serious and asking some questions of his own. "I know you desperately want to change the topic from Obamacare," he said. "Democrats in this town do not want to discuss Obamacare. Why? Because it isn't working." He then turned to focus on negative polling numbers for President Obama and Democrats, crediting House Republicans who are "listening to the millions of Americans who are losing their jobs, who are being pushed into part-time work, who are facing skyrocketing health care."
When Sen. Whitehouse got a chance to chime in, he called the "notion that Obamacare is a failure" a "product of right-wing histrionics." He told stories about how well he believes the exchanges are going so far in his home state.
"The Republican Party decided that Obamacare was going to be a failure early on, before Obamacare was even decided," Whitehouse said. "It was a political choice to pull all support for anything this president wanted to do. Now they have to live with it, so they have to maintain the story line. But I have to tell you Senator Cruz, I don't see it at home, I don't believe it."
Funny how the polls showed Americans opposed to Obamacare. Libs didn’t care about governing by polls with respect to Obamacare. Conservatives will never be “liked” by the MSM, or represented fairly.
GRASSFIRE is reporting that $634,000,000 was spent developing the healthcare.gov website. Is anyone else reporting on this?
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It was reported as costing that amount. It was reported on Free Republic, but don’t have the link for it.
Loaded questions are logically fallacious by nature. Automatic fail by Red Jones.
GRASSFIRE is reporting that $634,000,000 was spent developing the healthcare.gov website.
Read somewhere on FR that it was a Canadian company. Obama’s election tour bus was made by a Canadian company as well. Now I’m wondering about connections...
It was These Guys. It's the sort of thing that makes hiring committees in the IT biz look out for this particular resume entry. Wow.
Canadian officials fired IT firm behind troubled Obamacare website
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3077308/posts
...and for his next trick Senator Whitehouse is going to try and convince us that his $h!+ doesn’t stink...
Who was the blabbermouth opposed Senator Cruz? Not Van Jones but the typical old white guy.
A bit like attacking an Abrams tank with a zip gun.
Van Jones lives in a ditch.
“Democrat intellectual heavyweight” is a contradictory statement. Anti-American wannabe thugs is more like it.
Found it - thanks.....This is going to be fun to watch. They must be huddling right now in the basement of the WH trying to figure out how to spin this so their voters will understand and believe their story! Poor dumb saps!
Caught the 2nd half of the show, it was civil. I think people should tune it in and see how the people react. I did not see any fists thrown and enjoy listening to Gingrich always. A great man to have on one’s side.
Thanks to gov_bean_ counter From post 51
Sheldon Whitehouse - Rhode Island
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Whitehouse
http://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/
Well said, in the early days of Cable, Crossfire with Buchanan or Novak or whomever was pretty darn good. I’m not going to plug Van Jones but Gingrich is on there, I think Newt expresses conservative ideas very well. People need to watch it before jumping to conclusions. For those who haven’t seen it, at the end of the show, they have a new segment or at least did one time I saw it called “ceasefire”, my point, the people on there seem to act civil, maybe more than on the Sean Hannity show to tell you the truth. I’d give it a chance and it’s probably just as worthy of watching or listening to than most things on TV or radio except for Rush, Rush is just king and tops and a blessing.
Epic Fail!
Is Van Jones sorry that his party is in the toilet?
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