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.”
We just had a half black. My family on both sides goes back to the American Revolution. Crus is not a natural citizen.
ok...so? GOD is not foresaking us... I have faith...
Re:Your tagline... Sarah is good, but her time has passed... TED CRUZ 2016!!!
Walker, Kasich, Jindal, Trump, Perry, and Carson are all much more qualified this bag of wind. Hell, McCain was right about “Wacko Bird.”
Cruz is... a natural citizen...
I was thinking about that poster not liking Cruz for God knows what, when Ted told us that his mother was Irish and Italian I thought he would get some unfounded criticisms, knowing there are some who do not like Eye-talians. Just a thought.
1 John 4:18
18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
Ditto that, good for Ted Cruz!
1 John 4: 1Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
Let Love lead, Lumper20!
Look what happened: Obama and the leadership changed the deal they made with Cruz. So the dems and establishment 'pubs could accomplish two things. They played Cruz and they will get everything they want.
Now, the only way to turn it around is to stop a majority from fast tracking a bad deal in the US Senate, with no ability to amend it. And you want us to forget all the assurances that we didn't know what we were talking about and didn't understand it because if we did we'd support what Cruz was doing?
If Cruz is going to be a different kind of politician, he and his supporters have to give some credence to the thought process of those who try to follow things. At some points, it was so bad that Cruz supporters were as insulting and arrogant as the Ron Paul supporters were when he was running for president.
Please, don't just brush this off. I'm one of the people who thought that Cruz has something special and could turn things around. He still might be that person, but this trade thing is not going to be easy to overcome.
That’s why you let Love lead!
That’s why you’re honest about what you’re seeing in the world
Cruz will never make it to the General now.
The GOPe will make sure of it. And even if he does, The GOPe will sabotage him in the general.
The GOPe will make sure of it. And even if he does, The GOPe will sabotage him in the general.
We, the people, will not let that happen to Ted Cruz, will we?
Featherston ‘16
For Truth. For Freedom.
Did We the People choose Romney? Sorry but we the people don’t choose who the nominees are anymore. The GOPe does.
So who do you support? All you do is spout vitriol on Cruz threads but offer nothing. You obviously want to fight.
How about something constructive. We have enough Debbie Downers on here with out you.
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