The Rise Of Obamacare McCarthyism

Sahil Kapur – December 2, 2013, 1:50 PM EST

When House Republicans unveiled a proposal in the fall aimed at avoiding a dead-end government shutdown over Obamacare, the conservative backlash was swift and brutal: they called it a surrender, a betrayal, an appeasement of the health care law they all abhor.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) decried it as "procedural chicanery" that would make House Republicans "complicit in the disaster that is Obamacare," should they go along with it. FreedomWorks called it a "bait and switch to give the Senate a hall pass to fund Obamacare" and accused House GOP leaders of wanting to "cave and run."