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John Cornyn Takes A Shot At The Obama Administration

GOP Senator Takes A Shot At The Obama Administration
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Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) knocked the Obama administration's integrity during a Google Hangout with constituents on Monday.

Cornyn expressed his disapproval of the way the White House has handled the muddled Obamacare rollout, likening their "willingness to mislead people" on the benefits of the Affordable Care Act to, as he said, concealing information on the Benghazi attacks from the public.

“I think the current administration has taken lying to a new level,” he said. “To me, that’s the one thing I find most aggravating about what’s happening in Washington these days, particularly about this administration. Which is a lack of accountability and the willingness to mislead people or provide them just demonstrably false information and expect to be able to move on."

Cornyn has scrutinized President Barack Obama and his health care program since its debut, saying in an October interview that the president went "AWOL" during government shutdown negotiations, and expressing "concern about what Obamacare is doing to our economy."

Last week, the senator posited that the Obama administration was engaging in a nuclear deal with Iran to "distract attention" from Obamacare.

(h/t CNN)

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Before You Go

Politicians React To Obamacare Rollout
Michele Bachmann(01 of06)
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"There’s no sugarcoating it: Obamacare is forcing every American to purchase a health-insurance policy they don’t want at a price they can’t afford from a website that doesn’t work."
John Boehner(02 of06)
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"No one can identify anything the president could do administratively to keep his pledge that would be both legal and effective," Boehner told reporters. "When it comes to this health care law, the White House doesn't have much credibility."
Barack Obama(03 of06)
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"It took a hundred years for us to even get to the point where we could start talking about and implementing a law to make sure everybody's got health insurance, and my pledge to the American people is, is that we're going to solve the problems that are there, we're going to get it right, and the Affordable Care Act is going to work for the American people."
Ted Cruz(04 of06)
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"He promised that Americans could keep their health care plans. We were told premiums would go down, that jobs would be created. And we now know these are all false promises."
Mitt Romney(05 of06)
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“Perhaps the most important lesson the president, I think, failed to learn was, you have to tell the American people the truth," Romney said. "And when he told the American people that you could keep your health insurance if you wanted to keep that plan, period, he said that time and again, he wasn't telling the truth.”
Bill Clinton(06 of06)
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"I personally believe, even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got."
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