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Cruz: Any candidate not willing to make 2016 a referendum on repealing Obamacare should step aside
TedCruz.org ^ | 06/25/15

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.”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016issues; abortion; cruz2016; deathpanels; election2016; obamacare; paultardation; paultardnoisemachine; randpaulnoisemachine; randsconcerntrolls; scotuscare; tedcruz; texas; zerocare
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To: Jim Robinson

Amen to that. I’ve just about had it with all of ‘em! They are no more than mini-obamas in my eyes!


161 posted on 06/25/2015 4:23:30 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris, Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!w)
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To: Lumper20

OK I get it. Your prejudiced. I dont care if the candidate is black, hispanic or purple. I just want a true conservative, and Cruz is as close to one as I have been able to find.


162 posted on 06/25/2015 4:29:11 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: Isara

Any candidate supporting replacing Americans workers with foreign workers via the H-1B program needs to step aside, right, Cruz? (Cruz supports the H-1B program)


163 posted on 06/25/2015 4:35:39 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Hardens Hollow
I no longer have a choice. I was a strong supporter of Ted Cruz, but have moved to the "uncommitted column". FWIW, if the primary were tomorrow, Jindal and Trump would be the ones I'd be considering.

That's what campaigns are for. We'd all be well-advised to keep an open mind as the campaign moves on.

164 posted on 06/25/2015 4:36:03 PM PDT by grania
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To: Isara

This is all fine but I think Cruz needs a large policy that can be embraced by the right or no one well vote for him.


165 posted on 06/25/2015 4:48:54 PM PDT by hawkaw
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To: CodeToad
Any candidate supporting replacing Americans workers with foreign workers via the H-1B program needs to step aside, right, Cruz? (Cruz supports the H-1B program)

I don't accept your premise. Supporting the H-1B program doesn't mean supporting replacing Americans workers with foreign workers.

In order to turn this country around (not just manage the decline), we have to hit on all full cylinders in every aspect of economy, including trading with other countries. We will need a highly-skilled workforce to expedite our recovery. As we know, the free public education of this country is horrible. What does it produce? Fewer and fewer qualified students for colleges to become highly-skilled graduates (science, technology, engineering and math). It will take a generation or so to produce highly-skilled graduates of our own to participate in our economic recovery. Meanwhile, we have to borrow some of those from other countries.

Are you preparing for the ever-worsening skills gap?

166 posted on 06/25/2015 4:57:12 PM PDT by Isara
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To: Isara

Your premise is that there are no Americans that can do the job and foreigners are better qualified.

False premise.

This has been the liberal battle cry for foreign workers and illegal aliens: “Doing jobs Americans won’t do!”

We built this country but politics is allowing greedy corporations to tear it down.


167 posted on 06/25/2015 4:59:03 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: tenger

“Any suggestions on how YOU would hold the GOP accountable? Unfortunately, that’s a nice buzzword in DC. Very few are ever held accountable there.”

We can’t. We are toast. A reset is the only way.


168 posted on 06/25/2015 5:04:42 PM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: CodeToad
Your premise is that there are no Americans that can do the job and foreigners are better qualified.

False premise.

HIGHLY-SKILLED graduates, CodeToad. And that is not my premise. Yes, it is false, in deed.

169 posted on 06/25/2015 5:05:33 PM PDT by Isara
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To: CodeToad

Our students cannot pass simple math tests. If one wants a high-tech economy, we sadly cannot depend on our government schools to do the job.

It is ironic that those here bashing Cruz on thread after thread think our public schools are doing a fine job.

hmmm, just put it together. They bash a true conservative, think union-control of our schools is successful- must be closet liberals.


170 posted on 06/25/2015 5:11:39 PM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: wmfights
Because of the people who think the government should be in the religion business... Us Yankees (from New England) want the government to be small... which means we want what is in the Constitution and Bill Of Rights...not whether X is gay or not.

We don't want our money wasted on moronic projects... like high speed rail in California...

171 posted on 06/25/2015 5:11:46 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Mom MD

I hope Cruz is the choice of those who served with your son in combat. They know.


172 posted on 06/25/2015 5:40:51 PM PDT by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: Hardens Hollow

“Our students cannot pass simple math tests.”

That’s not even close to true. You insult our students. On top of that, you claim foreigners can do math better.

Again, you are spouting the liberal talking points tat we NEED illegal aliens and foreign workers to “Do the jobs Americans won’t do.”

We were doing the jobs and quite well, but greedy companies want cheaper labor. Seems you do as well.


173 posted on 06/25/2015 6:02:22 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Isara

I am back to supporting Cruz 100%. He will follow through on his promises.


174 posted on 06/25/2015 6:18:07 PM PDT by sand88 (We can never legislate our way back to Liberty)
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To: Isara

Awesome!


175 posted on 06/25/2015 6:24:07 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Cruz2Victory!)
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To: wmfights; wagglebee; Girlene; onyx; KC_Lion; Jim Robinson; SoConPubbie; jazusamo; P-Marlowe; ...
If you look at it objectively, Cruz has been clear and consistent in fighting obamacare

Sorry, the Lucy/football no longer appeals to me. I'm the objective one. After TPA, IranNukes, and H1B Bingo, I'm objectively saying, after years of having these SOBs pull the football away, that they aren't worthy of trust.

After the flippin' Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the very seat of justice, give a finger to the people and laughs in our faces, and says: "I'll just say a dog is a horse! Hahahahahahaha! Those imbecils. What CAN they do? Not a damn thing."

I'm the objective one. I'm not trusting these lying scum, because I've given them chance after chance, year after year, election after election, and then they pull the football away.

Only an insane person would believe these people again.

176 posted on 06/25/2015 6:49:38 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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To: xzins

177 posted on 06/25/2015 6:55:14 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat ( The ballot is a suggestion box for slaves and fools.)
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To: TNMOUTH

I like them all save Jeb, I just do not believe their promises to repeal Obamacare.

No Republican will campaign on “taking away healthcare”, no way, no how. And no Republican President will sign a repeal of the law, no Rep Senate will send one to him.

They do not have the courage. It is not in their DNA.


178 posted on 06/25/2015 6:59:45 PM PDT by roses of sharon ("Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." Luke 23:43)
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To: RKBA Democrat

Exactly. What Roberts did was pure corruption.

He could have said, “They made some errors in logic and strategy, so we just went in and fixed it for them. There are now subsidies for both kinds of exchanges.”

That’s short, very honest, and while still a violation of law, at least no ones pretending to hide a bald-faced lie.


179 posted on 06/25/2015 7:00:12 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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To: xzins

Chaplain: I am so very concerned for this nation. I know the men who fought with me to include those who died loved this nation more then their own life. I was not in a unit where a chaplain was a frequent guest, but; I certainly recall when SFC “ Frenchy” Girard had a eulogy that it was awesome. I thank the 5th Group Chaplain for coming to Ban Me Thout East as Girard had done much as a former French legionnaire. I thank the Lord for Chaplains in the Army.
Thanks.


180 posted on 06/25/2015 7:04:35 PM PDT by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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