hours. i think in that sense, he represents as does mike lee, as does rand paul, a new generation of much more aggressive republicans and i would just point out, peter king, i believe, voted for the very bill that he s now attacking because he voted to send it from the house, taking obamacare out of the government in the continuing resolution. so let s be clear. the underlying pressure of conservatives has actually moved the base of the republican party on this issue a fair distance in the last six weeks. david, do you agree what newt is saying? i agree with him on one fundamental point, and that is ted cruz has made himself more of a hero among the tea party types. no doubt about it. just a few days ago as you know he said something which alienated house republican conservatives because they thought he wouldn t fight. he partly put this on to do that. even though it got a lot of publicity, not all publicity is good publicity. for a vast majority of americans
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obamacare, of trying to repeal it, and using it for his own purposes in a way that s going to hurt us and it s only going to help the president. do you believe the republicans will get the blame if the government shuts down? all of the polling shows that and, quite frankly, i think we should if it s done under this basis. the debt ceiling is a separate issue. the president should negotiate with us. if he can negotiate with putin and sit down with john boehner. as far as this issue of defunding obamacare, yes, we will be blamed. this is unusual for a member of congress to be so tough on a member of his own party, saying that he s a fraud, saying what he s doing is about basically his own fund-raising and his own mailing list. why are you speaking out like this? i don t think we owe any loyalty to ted cruz. he spent last months of the summer trying to put republicans on the spot, trying to force and intimidate republican members of
when you had anti-war democrats deeply opposed, voting, speaking, raising money, i don t remember very many people challenging their motives. ted cruz ran on the grounds he would fight in washington. he didn t promise he would win. he promised he would fight. he s proving to be a pretty clever guy. he had virtually every person today talking about him. every political person in the country today was talking about him. i did five different interviews across the country. every single interview brought up what is ted cruz doing? i think he s making a case. he may well lose in the end. there are a lot of republicans that rather see someone with the guts to fight than just be told automatically let s surrender and do nothing and give in. after all, it s too difficult to deal with the president. our constitution doesn t require us to roll over and accept automatically whatever the president demands. you re saying you re being asked about ted cruz and not about obamacare. is this about ted
1st, new online marketplaces open for business across the country, giving the uninsured their first shot at buying into health care plans. what we want to make sure of is that everybody in every category, every age group, understands why health insurance is important, understands why they should sign up. reporter: but cruz and some other republicans say they ll only vote for a measure that averts a government shutdown if it also defunds obamacare. defund obamacare! reporter: the problem for the tea party texan, senate republican leaders have all but abandoned cruz s failing quest. i just don t happen to think filibustering a bill that defunds obamacare is the best route to defunding obamacare. all it does is shut down the government and keep obamacare funded and none of us want that. reporter: now, despite the cruz talk-a-thon, the bill to
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