White House Reacts To Ted Cruz Bid With Sick Obamacare Burn

Posted by | March 23, 2015 22:00 | Filed under: Contributors Politics Tommy Christopher Top Stories

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Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) kicked off his 2016 presidential campaign in auspicious fashion Monday by announcing his bid at religious wingnut Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University, and promptly having TedCtuz.com hijacked by supporters of President Obama’s immigration reform. At Monday’s White House daily briefing, reporters tried gamely to get Press Secretary Josh Earnest to weigh in on Cruz’s candidacy, as Earnest tried just as hard not to get in Cruz’s way.

White House reporters are nothing if not resourceful, so they went at the Cruz question in a variety of ways. First up was the Associated Press‘ Josh Lederman, who tried to get Earnest to weigh on Cruz’s promise to “repeal every word of Obamacare,” and was rewarded with some boilerplate about the “robust debate” to come:

American Urban Radio Network‘s April Ryan, though, managed to open up the jar that Lederman loosened by noting the irony (or perhaps stagecraft) of the first official Republican candidacy of 2016 kicking off on the 5th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. Earnest had one brief observation to make about that…READ MORE

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By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

9 responses to White House Reacts To Ted Cruz Bid With Sick Obamacare Burn

  1. William March 23rd, 2015 at 22:27

    Doesn’t Cruz get free health care?

    • jybarz March 23rd, 2015 at 22:50

      Of course, he does. But, he’s talking about everyone else, not about him. He and Repukes are bloody hypocrites and evil.

    • granpa.usthai March 24th, 2015 at 00:06

      if this LIAR was a Real Christian he’d believe everyone is immortal.

      • William March 24th, 2015 at 00:11

        His shtick is about pandering to his own base. I hope he gets the nomination.

    • rg9rts March 24th, 2015 at 08:22

      His wife’s policy, right??

  2. jybarz March 23rd, 2015 at 22:46

    Aren’t Ted Cruz and Repukes TOTALLY EVIL to keep saying that Obamacare should be repealed, which they have done so over 50 times, when millions are being helped by it and Repukes not even have anything to replace it with?

    It’s so mind boggling why Repukes are so totally evil for being so endlessly against many, many other issues helping people and country? They continually lie, deceive and distort to achieve their evil goals. Why are they so bigotted and hateful?

    I sometimes wonder if my intense dislike of them means I am hateful too. Maybe I am or maybe I just hate things that are so utterly wrong.

  3. oldfart March 24th, 2015 at 14:28

    i think it is a real shame that the press secretary
    must restrain himself from uttering the obvious.

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