National Review editor Jonah Goldberg told Fox News Monday morning that Texas SenatorTed Cruz was attempting to employ a Barack Obama-style strategy in his quest to shut down the government over Obamacare—a strategy Goldberg predicted won’t be successful.
Goldberg reiterated his disapproval of Obamacare and its implementation problems, but added that he was no more enamored of Cruz’s call to make the passage of a continuing resolution contingent on the defunding of the ACA.
“The defund-Obamacare strategy that he’s pushing is simply not going to work,” Goldberg said. “It’s a misreading of the political moment. The idea that somehow Ted Cruz will be able to create a political tsunami that will change the minds of at least twelve Democrats in the Senate just strikes me as utterly fanciful.”
“In some ways Ted Cruz is doing the same sort of strategy that Obama did in 2008 and 2012, of making these arguments about bringing change to Washington in terms of these populist, grassroots kind of forces,” Goldberg continued. “That has not worked for President Obama, and I don’t think it would work for Ted Cruz either.”
“…Interesting analogy,” host Martha MacCallum replied.
Watch the full clip, via Fox News:
No comments:
Post a Comment