Senator Ted Cruz

[DMX7]

What a heroic performance! He made such a difference and he is a fighter of freedom! Three cheers for Senator Ted Cruz. Hip-hip Hooray, Hip-hip Hooray, Hip-hip Hooray!!!

http://www.hulu.com/watch/537248?playlist_id=1031&asset_scope=all

[EVAY]

What a heroic performance! He made such a difference and he is a fighter of freedom! Three cheers for Senator Ted Cruz. Hip-hip Hooray, Hip-hip Hooray, Hip-hip Hooray!!!

http://www.hulu.com/watch/537248?playlist_id=1031&asset_scope=all

I wondered if someone would start on thread on this guy today or this evening. Honestly, he is clearly intelligent; he is also an impossible demagogue. He reminds me more of Joe McCarthy than anyone else.

[rascal]

What a fool he is. It has nothing to do with freedom. He is afraid people will like the new affordable healthcare.

[AntiChrist]

His resume reads just like Obama's, except he had an actual legal career.

[Blake]

Faux filibuster is a genius way to do some attention whoring

[Nbadan]

...dude shit his pants for nothing....think about that...

[SA210]

:lol

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[SA210]

:lol

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[Jacob1983]

He can't run for president so why jizz about him?

[SA210]

He can't run for president so why jizz about him?

I don't really care for him, but the butthurt on some of the fake liberals is pretty hilarious though :lol

[boutons_deux]

Any intelligence people never tire of claiming for him is fatally offset by his pathological egomania and narcissism.

His "social skills" are seen to be totally lacking by his fellow Senators, both parties.

When time was already extremely tight to avoid a govt shutdown, he wasted a whole day playing "look at the very wonderful, God-anointed, Hispanic-Macho-Man me".

[boutons_deux]

Ted Cruz’s Fake Fight Against Obamacare Is Making Millions

As for the “real change” Ted Cruz said he was looking for, that change has arrived in Washington, and the change is Ted Cruz himself. Almost single-handedly, the freshman Tea Party apostle has upended the clubby U.S. Senate, roiled the tradition-bound GOP, and revolutionized the business of power in the nation’s capital, all thanks to the health-care bill that Cruz, former senator Jim DeMint, and a small army of conservative operatives have essentially made a living out of hating.


"These guys aren't stupid. They can read the votes,” says a veteran Republican operative. “That's why Republicans are so infuriated. Folks know exactly why they're doing this. They are using this issue and misleading conservatives in order to expand their own influence and raise money for themselves."

The biggest actors so far in Defund, Inc. have been Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, and the Senate Conservatives Fund, the leadership PAC that Jim DeMint launched as a senator and handed off to his former staff members to run as a conservative super PAC. While Cruz led the defund fight in the Senate this summer, the SCF led a huge parallel fight on the outside, setting up a website, running radio and television ads, robocalls and a direct mail campaign, all designed to raise money from still-hot conservative activists and urge them to sign a petition to tell Congress not to fund the health-care bill when they greenlight funding for the rest of the government.

Cruz’s heat has been pure napalm, much of it focused at his own Republican colleagues in the Senate. It’s made Cruz easily the most hated man in the Senate, but a figure quite beloved by Tea Party purists who want nothing more than to support a senator who is willing to mix it up in a scrum, even—or maybe especially—with his fellow Republicans.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the conservative pro-Cruz outside interest groups plowed millions into the primary, outspending the pro-Dewhurst super PACS and giving Cruz enough lift to win.

The top two super PACs supporting Cruz were Club for Growth Action, which spent more than $5.5 million to help elect Cruz, and the Senate Conservatives Fund and Senate Conservatives Action, which spent $1.3 million and gave Cruz more than any other candidate that cycle. Members of the Club for Growth and the SCF were also the top two sources for Cruz’s individual donors, with more than $1 million combined.

Most importantly, the SCF now has in its possession a massive email list of potential like-minded donors, thanks to the 1.5 million people who signed the defund petition on the Don’tFundObamaCare website. While "a list" may just be a roster in some circles, in the parlance of power and politics, a list is nothing less than a warchest-in-waiting for the SCF to use on behalf of its allies and against its enemies in the 2014 mid-term elections and the 2016 presidential race. It also makes the SCF the most relevant, and possibly the most powerful, conservative group in the country, including the Club for Growth and FreedomWorks.

If anyone is still confused after the Obamacare funding fight (faux filibuster and all), Ted Cruz is now a 2016 contender and the SCF’s biggest ally. Its enemies are many of the men and women he shares a cloakroom with—any Republican senator who did not join in.

Although the Fund has run just one ad against a Democrat (Sen. Mark Pryor) this cycle, it has taken the unprecedented step of running ads attacking seven GOP senators, including Mitch McConnell, Jeff Flake, and Lindsey Graham, for not opposing Obamacare enough, even though they all voted against the bill and said they would vote to defund it.

Last week, the SCF announced it would also run ads against House Republicans if they fail to embrace the right defund strategy. ?

"It's unfortunate that a couple of groups are shifting that energy against Republicans for their own benefit. In 2009, they were having town halls bashing Democrats. In 2013, they're having town halls bashing Republicans."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/25/ted-cruz-s-fake-fight-against-obamacare-is-making-millions.html

:lol FOLLOW THE MONEY!!

So Cruz is really a bought whore Senator, a puppet of the VRWC super PACs, is why Cruz doesn't give a shit about health care for poor, young Texans, or any, Human-Americans.

and You Teabaggers follow his PIED PIPING like a bunch of stinkin rats.

[ploto]

Jon Stewart with the goods:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-september-25-2013/healthcare-bill---ted-s-excellent-adventure

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-september-25-2013/healthcare-bill---ted-s-excellent-adventure---the-bore-ax

[Blake]

He can't run for president so why jizz about him?

I think the consensus legal opinion is that he can.

[Blake]

I don't really care for him, but the butthurt on some of the fake liberals is pretty hilarious though :lol

Your strawmen failures used to be hilarious.

But since you haven't learned after all this time you've been here what a strawman is and why it fails, it's not funny to me any more. It's just pathetic.

[boutons_deux]

I think the consensus legal opinion is that he can.

same consensus as for Barry and McLiar, parent was American citizen, no matter where "natural born".

[SA210]

:madrun I only exist now to show my butthurt over sa210, I won't even discuss topics. I'm just angry and keep letting everyone know it :madrun

[Jacob1983]

How the hell can Cruz run for president? That bubba was born on the soil of America's hat. People bitch all the time about Obama's lineage but at least he was born on American soil. Hawaii was a state in 1961. Canada is not American soil. In my opinion, the only way Cruz could get around the American soil thing is if he was born on an American military base that was in Canada or a foreign country because American military bases are counted as American soil.

[boutons_deux]

there is no "American soil thing" ! :lol

you can obtain US citizenship by being born to an American citizen on anybody's soil. :lol

[scott]

You can also be a Cuban citizen by being born to a Cuban citizen on anybody's soil.

I demand for Cruz to renounce his Cuban citizenship at once.

[Blake]

I've reduced myself to irrelevant clown status

[DMX7]

:lol

https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/v/s720x720/1147987_10201078659147401_571422285_n.jpg?oh=8dcff b91a2198eb3a488fc200c0f2812&oe=52458040

You don't need a teleprompter to talk like an idiot for 22 hours like Cruz.

Obama gets some words from his teleprompter. Cruz gets them straight from his ass.

[Axegrinder]

I'm surprised Cruz made it through Dr Seuss fk'n clown

[Nbadan]

well, it was a little above his level...probably thought it was about Green eggs and Ham..

[Nbadan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HJuaQL3KRI

[DMX7]

I can't believe this fucking clown is getting paid for this shit.

[Spurminator]

I can't believe SA210 went from staunch Hillary Clinton supporter to a regurgitator of 5-year-old Republican teleprompter jokes. Speaking of puppets...

[Trainwreck2100]

how does one fillibuster their own bill?

[SA210]

I can't believe SA210 went from staunch Hillary Clinton supporter to a regurgitator of 5-year-old Republican teleprompter jokes. Speaking of puppets...

Hillary supporter?? :lol


And the teleprompter stuff is just true. Has nothing to do with sorry ass Republicans tbh

[Winehole23]

About Senator Ted Cruz’s health insurance, Ashley Parker (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/24/us/politics/a-wife-committed-to-cruzs-ideals-but-a-study-in-contrasts-to-him.html?pagewanted=all), in The New York Times, reports,



“Ted is on my health care plan,” said Mrs. Cruz, who has worked in Goldman’s investment management division for eight years.
Catherine Frazier, a spokeswoman for the senator, confirmed the coverage, which Goldman said was worth at least $20,000 a year. “The senator is on his wife’s plan, which comes at no cost to the taxpayer and reflects a personal decision about what works best for their family,” she said.


This is an employer-sponsored plan. Unless Mrs. Cruz is paying the entire premium and Goldman is not offering coverage through a Section 125 “cafeteria” plan (http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/grubers-latest-paper-on-employer-sponsored-health-insurance/) — both highly unlikely — then taxpayers are subsidizing it, as they do all such employer-sponsored health insurance. All health policy wonks know this. I would hope Senator Cruz, who gives long speeches aimed to influence health policy (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/26/us/politics/senate-budget-battle.html), knows it.


His spokeswoman, apparently, does not. That Catherine Frazier’s statement is almost certainly false is something I’d like to have seen mentioned in the article. The New York Times has done a disservice to its readers in failing this basic fact check.
I wonder if Ms. Frazier, Mrs. Cruz, or the Senator knows just how much taxpayers are subsidizing their coverage. In fact, the Senator and Mrs. Cruz are probably* getting a bigger tax break (http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/i-bet-you%E2%80%99re-getting-a-subsidy-for-your-health-insurance-too-ctd/) than the cost of coverage of a typical, non-elderly Medicaid beneficiary (http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/medicaid-you-cant-save-much-money-by-dropping-work-eligible-adults/), or even two.


If the Senator truly wishes to be free of the health insurance assistance of taxpayers, he might consider instead getting coverage in the individual market. Such plans receive no tax subsidy and, given the level of his family’s income,* he would not qualify for premium assistance under the Affordable Care Act. (And, even if he did, he need not enroll in a plan that qualifies for such subsidies; No plans outside of exchanges will.)


That those in the group market get such a large tax break and those in the individual market do not might strike the Senator as an inefficient economic distortion. If so, he’d be agreeing with most economists. But proposals on what to do about it diverge. Some wish to extend the tax break to the individual market, costing taxpayers a fortune. Others want to repeal it in the group market, recouping hundreds of billions of dollars a year (http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/simply-put-employer-sponsored-insurance-tax-subsidy/) in forgone revenue.


I wonder which approach the Senator would prefer. Given the implications for the debt, I would think the choice would be an easy one. However, I’m not aware he’s on record one way or the other. (Are you?) Is the Senator prepared to endorse a policy consistent with his spokeswoman’s statement to New York Times, that his health insurance comes at no cost to the taxpayer?

http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/media-watch-senator-cruzs-health-insurance-has-a-taxpayer-cost/