date a intimidate our rights. we will not take this distraction for more than it is, a distraction. last question. okay. all right. so we re going to step away. last question for paul ryan. as you can see, he s talking tough on president obama s agenda. sabrina, i want to go back to you because i m wondering, you know, the house is going to get this bill through that repeals obamacare and defunds planned parenthood, and they want the president to look at it, and they want him to veto it so they can make a point. i m just wondering, will senator rubio and senator cruz show up to vote on this, and will that help them? well, i don t know. you d have to speak with their staff about that. but i do think that they have the upper hand here. look, i think that this is always going to be a heavy lift, as peter pointed out, republicans are in the position now telling some americans they d have to take something away, although there s plenty of americans who are really unhappy with obamacar
is talking about republicans as though they work well with democrats right now in the first place. i mean, that s ridiculous on its face. but, you know, i would have personally liked to have seen the tea party break off. i think what they ve done for the republican party has been really detrimental. i think the big thing here that no one is really latching on to is earmarks and the effect of earmarks. they ve been a part of own country s history since its beginning. where you have a case like eric cantor, who s the first majority leader we have seen since the earmark ban, had a very hard time making a case to his constituents to bring him back. then we have thad cochran, who was able to make that case, basically pointing to appropriations. so this kind of anti-government rhetoric and the no-no-no, shutting down the government, voting 54 times to defunds obamacare has kind of moves the republicans away from the fundamental job of government, which is to spend the taxpayer dollars in an
showdown in congress. it showed us where the republican party was willing to go. i feel it was a game-changer. i rise today in opposition of obamacare. vowing to use every measure to fight on in the senate, cruz takes the floor on september 24th at 2:41 p.m. i tend to speak in support of defunding break until i am no longer able to stand. the whole debate we are having here today is not over strategy. everyone in america understands that obamacare is destroying jobs. he speaks for 21 hours, 19 minutes. the hour noon has arrived pursuant to the order and then, as expected, the senate strips out the defund language. any bill that defunds obamacare is dead dead. in that fight, if everything
completely clear before that. i feel like it was a game changer. i rise today in opposition to obamacare. reporter: vowing to use every procedural measure to fight on in the senate, cruz takes the floor on september 24th at 2:41 p.m. i intend to speak in support of defunding obamacare until i am no longer able to stand. the whole debate we re having here today is not over strategy. everyone in america understands that obama care is destroying jobs. reporter: he speaks for 21 hours 19 minutes. the hour of noon has arrived. pursuant to the order of reporter: and then, as expected, the senate strips out the defund language. any bill that defunds obamacare is dead. dead. in that fight if everything went your way the president would have vetoed that thing to defund and you would have been back to well, not necessarily. listen, if you made the case to
i feel like it was a game changer. i rise today in opposition to obamacare. vowing to use every procedural measure to fight on in the senate, cruz takes the floor on september 24th at 2:41 p.m. i intend to speak in support of defunding obamacare until i am no longer able to stand. the whole debate we re having today is not over strategy. everyone in america understands that obamacare is destroying jobs. he speaks for 21 hours, 19 minutes. and then as expected, the senate strips out the defund language. any bill that defunds obamacare is dead. dead. in that fight if everything went your way, the president would have vetoed that thing to defund and you would have been back to well, not necessarily. listen, if you made the case to the american people that