McCain seeks united Republican front against Obamacare as Cruz fights on

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

McCain seeks united Republican front against Obamacare as Cruz fights on

Karen McVeigh in New York
theguardian.com, Sunday 20 October 2013 19.13 BST

The battle within the Republican party highlighted by the recent government shutdown has damaged the party, hurt innocent Americans and taken attention away from the "fiasco" of the rollout of Obamacare, Senator John McCain said on Sunday.

McCain, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell and Senator Lindsey Graham, a key McCain ally, tried to present a united front on the Sunday talkshows, insisting that the party's fight against President Barack Obama's signature healthcare reform would go on.

Ted Cruz, the first-term senator from Texas who led the charge by the party's rightwing Tea Party faction to shut down the government and bring the US to the brink of default on its debts, was less conciliatory. Appearing on CNN and ABC, he blamed Senate Republicans like McCain for abandoning their House colleagues over the shutdown and forcing them to accept a "lousy" deal which fell short of the goal of defunding the Affordable Care Act.

Cruz also suggested that he might seek to force another shutdown when the next deadline for agreeing a budget arrives, in January.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/mccain-cruz-republicans-obamacare-shutdown

[libdem4life]

1. Please proceed, what was your name again? Let the seccessionists go, as well.

"Don't let the door ... " and any version of the completion of that phrase.