Rep. Peter King: Cruz ‘Helped Obamacare,’ Obama Should Give Him Campaign Donation

Republican congressman Peter King is still frustrated with Ted Cruz‘s crusade against Obamacare, and on Fox News Saturday he actually argued that by triggering the government shutdown and taking the focus away from the health care law’s horrible rollout, he’s actually helping the health care law and President Obama should thank him.

King still found it baffling how Cruz could have ever thought the Democrats would cave, and this “really ended up being just like a charge of the light brigade for us.” He said this was an unmitigated disaster for not just Cruz, but the entire Republican party, warning “it’s going to be permanent damage if we don’t disassociate ourselves.”

King also bemoaned how Cruz’s stunt drew public attention away from the Obamacare rollout and ended up helping the health care law that Cruz was trying to kill.

“I think President Obama should send Ted Cruz a campaign donation, because this was the worst start-up of any program ever with Obamacare, and yet its popularity actually went up in the polls because so much was focused on the government shutdown. So he’s, yes, he definitely helped Obamacare.”

Watch the video below, via Fox News:

[photo via screengrab]

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