Ted Cruz confronts President Obama at White House

[CBHagman]

48. It's a prepared Republican talking point.

You'll find the same phrase, precisely or a variant, in transcripts, videos, and letters. Possibly Frank Luntz or another pollster selected and honed a statement (the oft-repeated "government takeover of health care" claim about the ACA is reportedly also Luntz's handiwork) that they all use. Listen to enough sound bites, media availabilities, and speeches and you'll be able to mouth the words right along with them.

The House GOP members' August letter calling for the defunding of the Affordable Care Act contained a variant of the talking point.

[url]http://meadows.house.gov/uploads/Meadows_DefundLetter.pdf[/url]

Of course they always claim this is all about jobs, but since they started trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act from the first day of the Republican control of Congress in 2011, when the ACA wasn't even a year old and definitely hadn't gone into effect in full, this is all just for show, and what isn't for show is for spite.