Posted on 06/25/2015 10:27:30 AM PDT by Isara
Releases statement on King v. Burwell
HOUSTON, Texas — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, released the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s decision on King v. Burwell:
“Today’s decision in King v. Burwell is judicial activism, plain and simple. For the second time in just a few years, a handful of unelected judges has rewritten the text of Obamacare in order to impose this failed law on millions of Americans. The first time, the Court ignored federal law and magically transformed a statutory ‘penalty’ into a ‘tax.’ Today, these robed Houdinis transmogrified a ‘federal exchange’ into an exchange ‘established by the State.’
“As Justice Scalia rightfully put it, ‘Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is ‘established by the State.” He also said, ‘We should start calling this law SCOTUSCare’ – I agree.
“If this were a bankruptcy case, or any other case of ordinary statutory interpretation, the result would have been 9-0, with the Court unanimously reversing the Obama administration’s illegal actions. But instead, politics intervened.
“For nakedly political reasons, the Supreme Court willfully ignored the words that Congress wrote, and instead read into the law their preferred policy outcome. These judges have joined with President Obama in harming millions of Americans. Unelected judges have once again become legislators, and bad ones at that. They are lawless, and they hide their prevarication in legalese. Our government was designed to be one of laws, not of men, and this transparent distortion is disgraceful.
“At the same time, crocodile tears are flooding our nation’s capital today over the Supreme Court’s decision to illegally rewrite Obamacare, which has been a disaster since its inception. But one day of faux outrage from the Washington Cartel won’t fool the millions of courageous conservatives across our country. They know the Republican leadership in Washington is quietly celebrating the Court’s decision. If they believe this issue is now settled so they don’t have to address it, they are sorely mistaken.
“Every GOP candidate for the Republican nomination should know that this decision makes the 2016 election a referendum on the full repeal of Obamacare.
“I have made repeal of this disastrous law a top priority since the first day I arrived in the Senate and have made its repeal central to my campaign. Any candidate not willing to do the same—and campaign on it every day—should step aside.
“The Court adopted the IRS’s blatantly unlawful reading of the statute to make subsidies available to individuals on federal exchanges, when Congress expressly provided the opposite.
“After today’s ruling, Obamacare will now be responsible for imposing illegal taxes on more than 11 million individuals and for burdening hundreds of thousands of businesses with illegal penalties on their workers, killing jobs, and further slowing economic growth. President Obama’s health care law remains deeply unpopular and is harming countless Americans by increasing costs and worsening the quality of care.
“I remain fully committed to the repeal of Obamacare—every single word of it. And, in 2017, we will do exactly that.”
One is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers, and threats to society. The other is for housing prisoners.
That is next.
One is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers, and threats to society. The other is for housing prisoners.
There. Updated it for you.
Reminded me of a scene at the end of Godfather 1:
Michael Corleone is talking to Carlo, his sister’s husband:
“Ah, that little farce you played with my sister. You think that would fool a Corleone? “
“Only don’t tell me that you’re innocent. Because it insults my intelligence and it makes me very angry.”
But people who are in the Kingdom of God are saved forever. Do not let any worldly discord distract you from His Love. God is Love.
In both cases, it's like putting lipstick on a pig
Go Ted!!!
Ted, I agree....When you get elected, I would tell Roberts, ‘I think you need to step aside and let Thomas or Scalia to lead the USSC.’ I would elect lawyers who would RECOGNIZE the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Then I would tell the ‘Republican ‘leaders’’, that it is time to either LEAD or RESIGN. I’d love to see Mike Lee as Senate MAJORITY LEADER and For HOUSE SPEAKER Dave Brat (or Clarence Thomas).
That works better!!
Actually it will officially end on Monday when the other shoe drops and gay “marriage” is the law of the land. This was the penultimate act.
jealous much?
I’m with Cruz, period...
That said,we still believe that Jesus is the son of GOD. When you have only x amount of nice days, we take it.
Cruz has a long history in politics. He has a long record to show where he stands on issues. He has a solid track record of leadership. His public position on every issue is solidly conservative.
So far your attacks on Cruz are primarily about not liking his personality. May I politely suggest that you focus on promoting some other solidly conservative candidate rather than trying to destroy one of the very few we have running? Leave attacks on conservatives to the left. They seem to be doing a great job of it.
Excellent post.
I trust Cruz...
Jeremiah 5
1 “Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem,
look around and consider,
search through her squares.
If you can find but one person
who deals honestly and seeks the truth,
I will forgive this city.
2 Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ still they are swearing falsely.”
3 O LORD, do not your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; you crushed them, but they refused correction. They made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
4 I thought, “These are only the poor; they are foolish, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the requirements of their God.
5 So I will go to the leaders and speak to them; surely they know the way of the LORD, the requirements of their God.” But with one accord they too had broken off the yoke and torn off the bonds.
6 Therefore a lion from the forest will attack them, a wolf from the desert will ravage them, a leopard will lie in wait near their towns to tear to pieces any who venture out, for their rebellion is great and their backslidings many.
7 “Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I supplied all their needs, yet they committed adultery and thronged to the houses of prostitutes.
8 They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for another man’s wife.
9 Should I not punish them for this?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?
We are doing A..we are fighting back....
see #117
A strong Constitutional Conservative can not restore our government to a Constitutional Government without resorting to the same unconstitutional methods that have brought us to this point, because congress will never agree to it. We seem doomed to the rule of a tyrant he only question is be they good or evil.
Bible believing Christians will have their own point of view.
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