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Bill Clinton and Barack Obama Blow Ted Cruz’s Faux Filibuster Out of the Water
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama Blow Ted Cruzs Faux Filibuster Out of the Water
While Ted Cruz is stomping his feet on the Senate floor, President Barack Obama and Bill Clinton were blowing away his publicity stunt and debunking Republican healthcare falsehoods together on stage
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Clinton and Obama have developed an amazing chemistry together. President Clinton masterfully played the role of interviewer, and there is something about being around the former president that tends to cause the current president to up his game a little bit. Obama was very sharp. President Clinton and President Obama spent nearly an hour having a plain spoken conversation about the new healthcare law. President Obama explained the law more clearly than he ever has before, and both presidents told the American people what a great deal the ACA will be for them.
At the same time, Ted Cruz and a small group of Senate Republicans were holding a filibuster designed to rally public support for defunding Obamacare. The difference between the two events was been night and day. As Obama and Clinton showed America the good things that will coming, Cruz, Mike Lee, Marco Rubio, and Jeff Session have been trotting out the same Republican Obamacare lies that they have been using for years.
What was striking is that Sen. Cruz ran out of talking points twenty minutes in, and has been repeating himself over and over and over again for 4+ hours now. The Republicans were trying to get attention for their scheme to defund Obamacare, but Fox News has frozen them out, and they have been knocked off of the headlines by Obama and Clinton.
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Ted Cruz and his circus of Obamacare lies were buried with ease by Clinton and Obama. The Republican smokescreen is lifting. As Americans get facts, the sideshow antics of Sen. Cruz will join other inaccurate Republican predictions in the dust heap of history.
Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/2013/09/24/bill-clinton-barack-obama-blow-ted-cruzs-faux-filibuster-water.html
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Bill Clinton and Barack Obama Blow Ted Cruz’s Faux Filibuster Out of the Water (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Sep 2013
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Enrique
(27,461 posts)1. i knew this was going to be politicususa
bless their hearts
Cha
(297,285 posts)2. thanks Tx~
sheshe2
(83,786 posts)3. K&R!
JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)4. K&R
I hope Fox is ignoring Cruz. That really defeats his purpose.
It's like a tree falling in the woods: Is it really a filibuster if no one is listening?
immoderate
(20,885 posts)5. Bill and Barack described the cleverness necessary to construct...
[font size =+2]the worst health care system in the world![/font]
--imm
Rhiannon12866
(205,467 posts)6. I watched most of this today and they were both brilliant!