he had no strategy. there was no strategy here. this was never something he was going to be able to win. so he really drug a couple of people along with him, made this three weeks of just a complete disaster, has destroyed the gop brand, and for what? i hope that s what people realize at the end of the day, that he took us down this path for absolutely no reason whatsoever, on something he was never going to win. had he kept his powder dry for a few days, he maybe could have made arguments about obama care. isn t that the last thing. house republicans, and ted cruz showed that there s actually a group less competent than the people behind the obama care website. i agree with that, except this, ted cruz is a big winner. the republican brand is weighed down, but the cruz brand is way up. i m from texas and i grew up there and i talked to friends today. and the business community is furious. business republicans are furious. but the grassroots loves this. and we ll know soon. we ll se
paul and susan, do you think if this hadn t happened with this problematic rollout of the obama website, would people who want to log in and join, having trouble doing so, do you think that would have even been on the table? certainly it distracted from you would not have seen what we saw, which is the popularity of obama care going up, even as the rollout was troubled. and that is because of this distraction that we had here. so it s an enormous opportunity cost that the republicans have paid, but it s a real-world cost. their brand is at an all-time low, and this is the best obama care has been in a year or two. what do you think, susan? i think one of the winners we should talk about are women in the senate. it was the women in the senate who started the bipartisan negotiations that built a framework for the eventually deal. women chairman of the two key committees, appropriations and budget. women just make up there s 20 women senators, only 20 out of 100, buthey were t d