the american people that obamacare wasn t working, i think the political pressure on the president would have been considerable. now, would he have somehow needed some sort of face-saving retreat about, well, this is not repealing it, it s a delay till we get our act together? sure. but i think that could potentially have been achievable. if we had been united. reporter: in fact, a fox news poll taken at the time found a sizable minority of americans actually did want to defund the law and a majority liked the idea of delaying it. that s what the house tried next, passing a bill funding the government but delaying obamacare one year. we re not going to bow to tea party anarchists. reporter: to senate democrats delay was as much a non-starter as defund. obamacare is the law of the land and will remain the law of the land as long as i m senate majority leader. reporter: the partial government shutdown arrived. the affordable care act is
listen, it s made the case to the american people that obamacare wasn t working. i think the political pressure on the president would have been considerable. now, would he have somehow needed some sort of face saving retreat about, well, this is not repealing it, it s a delay until we get our act together? sure. but i think that could potentially have been achievable. if we had been united. in fact, a fax news poll taken at the time found a sizable minority of americans actually did want to defund the law, and a majority liked the idea of delaying it. that s what the house tried next. passing a bill funding the government but delaying obamacare one year. we re not going to bow to tea party anarchist. to senate democrats delay was as much a nonstarter as defund. obamacare is the law of the land and remaining the law of the land as long as i m senate majority leader. the partial government shutdown arrived. the affordable care act is
obamacare wasn t work, i think the political pressure on the president would have been considerable. now, would he have somehow needed some sort of face saving retreat about well, this is not repealing it. it s a delay til we get our act together? sure. but i think that could potentially have been achievable if we had been united. in fact, a fox news poll taken at the time found a sizable minority of americans actually did want to defund the law and a majority liked the idea of delaying it. that s what the house tried next. passing a bill funding the government, but delaying obamacare one year. we re not going to vow to tea party anarchists. to democrats, delay was as much a nonstarter as defund. obamacare is the law of the land and will remain the law of the land and as long as i m senate majority leader. the partial government shutdown arrived. the affordable care act is
listen, if you made the case to the american people that obamacare wasn t working. i think the political pressure on the president would have been considerable. now, would he have somehow needed some sort of face saving retreat about, well, this is not repealing it, it s a delay until we get our act together? sure. but i think that could potentially have been achievable. if we had been united. in fact, a fox news poll taken at the time found a sizable minority of americans actually did want to defund the law, and a majority liked the idea of delaying it. that s what the house tried next. passing a bill funding the government but delaying obamacare one year. we re not going to bow to tea party anarchist. to senate democrats delay was as much a nonstarter as defund. obamacare is the law of the land and will remain law of the land as long as i m senate
at a gathering in san antonio. cruz spoke about being back in the lonestar state and about his fight to defund obama care. having spent the past month up in d.c., it is really great to be back in america. imagine if when the house had passed a bill funding the federal government and defunding obama care, if senate republicans had simply said we re going to stand together united with house republicans and the american people and we re going to stand against the train wreck that s obama care. the house republicans marched into battle courageously. and the senate republicans should have come in like the calvary to support them. unfortunately, a significant chunk of senate republicans instead came like the air force and began bombing the house republicans, our own twoops. i don t know where to begin but the president would still