Ted Cruz, on arcane, procedural chicanery that will allow his Republican colleagues to vote for Obamacare, while technically voting against it…

Republicans want to go home to their districts and say ‘Gosh, I voted to defund Obamacare, and marvel of marvels– we lost’ which, to be honest, is the outcome that I think more than a few of them affirmatively desire.

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They’ve been here a long time. And they’re beaten down. And they don’t believe we can win. They don’t believe it can happen.