Cruz, Lee plan on ‘Obamacare’ unnerves some in GOP
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Ted Cruz and Mike Lee stand as the Senate’s dynamic duo for conservatives, crusading against President Barack Obama’s health care law.
But at the same time they’ve infuriated many congressional Republicans with a tactic they consider futile, self-serving and detrimental to the party’s political hopes in 2014.
Cruz, who’s from Texas, and Lee, who represents Utah, spent months this summer pressuring Republicans to link any short-term spending bill to keep the government running with permanently defunding President Barack Obama’s health overhaul.
The two former Supreme Court clerks are determined to reverse Obama’s signature law — which the conservative court of Chief Justice John Roberts upheld in 2012.
In this Aug. 9 file photo, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks at the American Legislative Exchange Councils 40th annual meeting, in Chicago. Bush said Republicans would be guilty of overplaying their hand if they passed spending measure that did not include money for the 2010 health care law. There is a clear divide forming in the emerging field of potential 2016 presidential candidates, between those say they are making a stand on principle, willing to oppose the law at all costs, and those taking what they call a pragmatic approach, accepting grudgingly the measure as law, and moving forward.
Associated Press
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