Ted Cruz has sparked a Republican civil war. He has done
the bidding of the GOP fringe, in a self-aggrandizing crusade. And while
he has enhanced his own position in the conservative fantasyland he
seeks to rule, the practical effect of his quixotic campaign to defund
Obamacare has been to elevate the president and jeopardize the 2014
elections for his own party.
That, at least, seems to be the consensus in Washington.
We’re inclined to a somewhat different view. We say two cheers for Ted
Cruz—and for Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, and their fellow
crusaders. They succeeded in one crucial respect: Everyone is talking
about Obamacare. And the more it gets talked about, the clearer its
flaws are to an already skeptical public.
Shortly after an exhausted Cruz ended his 21-hour
non-filibuster filibuster, Tom Harkin took the floor. The chairman of
the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Harkin is an
ardent defender of the law, and he spent most of his 30-plus minutes
defending the law and listing its many alleged benefits. But he also
likened the Affordable Care Act to a “starter home” in need of
renovations, an acknowledgment of the fundamental flaws of the
president’s health care reform efforts.
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