Sen. Ted Cruz is filibustering a spending bill passed by his own party's House majority. The Washington Post cannot grasp this. Because Cruz began this spectacle with the words "I rise in opposition to ObamaCare," the journalists at the Post seem convinced that there is a bill being debated in the Senate called "ObamaCare," and that this bill is what Cruz is filibustering.
Blares the headline:
Cruz launches filibuster in opposition to Obamacare
Begins the article:
Continuing his vow to keep speaking against the new federal health-care law "until I am no longer able to stand," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) continued with his old-fashioned talking filibuster Tuesday evening in hopes of slowing debate over a short-term spending measure.
More than halfway down the page, the Post gets around to explaining:
Last week, the House passed a spending measure that would continue funding government operations by also defunding Obamacare, thus avoiding a government shutdown. The bill is now in the Senate, where Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) has vowed to remove language defunding the law before calling a final vote. Cruz and his allies are hoping to stop Reid from doing so.
So, then, Cruz is trying to stop his own party's spending bill, even as the Post's headline and much of its article dutifully fall in line with the GOP narrative that ObamaCare is what is being debated - instead of the fact that ObamaCare is the law of the land, and that dead-ender Republicans are trying to stop its implementation in a desperate attempt to keep Americans from realizing that better, more affordable access to healthcare = good.
Nice job, WaPo. No wonder our national political discourse sounds like cat stuck in a clothes dryer.