Fox News gave Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) the opportunity Friday to say that he would use the confirmation of the next Health and Human Services Secretary as an instrument in his quixotic quest to repeal Obamacare.
He didn’t exactly say he would try to block the confirmation of Office of Management and Budget Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell, who was nominated to replace Kathleen Sebelius — but he didn’t exactly pass on it either.
“I think Burwell presents an ideal opportunity to examine the failures that are Obamacare. And four years ago, reasonable minds could have differed over whether this thing might work,” Cruz said. “Today, seeing the disaster, seeing the trainwreck that is Obamacare, in my view, it is the essence of pragmatism to acknowledge this thing isn’t working. We need to start over, repeal every word of it. Start over.”
Cruz’s options would appear limited, though, after Senate Democrats detonated the nuclear option on filibusters for confirmation votes.
They have used that word, “Trainwreck” again and again. But they don’t tell us what is horrible about it. You can recognize the folks who listen to the like of Cruz and his “arguments” by the use of this word. What is the phrase? Oh, yes “Nothing burger”.
Cruz is a train wreck. There. I"ve posted a comment!
Yes, you did, and I got a notification of your comment in the Hive. And the comment opened in the Hive, and it had a category indicator at the top of the page that said TPM Article Topics. I will have to look to see if that category thing shows up in all of the Hive comments now. Things do look and feel different today. Must be that different plane thing Josh spoke of, eh?
I don’t get the thread going to the Hive. It seems like there should be another place for it to go. I also don’t get how I can follow my comments history. My Hive history is OK, but I see no history for the few comments I’ve made “out front”. It’s a work in progress with lots of connecting parts in the configuration.
Actually, it appears to be in “both” places. Or not actually IN both places, but visible and accessible from both places. When I am in the Hive, I can see the comment with a flag that says TPM Article Topics. If I click on that flag indicator, I can see ALL of the comment threads on ALL of the articles on TPM Proper. I can see how many posts have been made, when they were made and I can open up those comment strings.
If that’s not a reason in and of itself for folks to subscribe…