Ted Cruz promises to introduce bill in Senate to repeal Obamacare

Tea party darling Ted Cruz was sworn into the U.S. Senate on Thursday and promised to begin his career by introducing a bill he knows will never pass — a repeal of “every syllable of every word” of the White House’s signature health care reform law.

With Democrats controlling the Senate and Barack Obama as president, “we know to a metaphysical certainly that that bill is not going to pass,” Cruz said on a media conference call shortly after taking office as the first Hispanic to represent Texas in the Senate.

But Cruz promised on the campaign trail to propose the repeal and said he’d keep his word.

Someone call the gut-punch department.