Ted Cruz fights GOP approach on Obamacare subsidies

Politico ^ | 06/11/2015 | Manu Raju

[GIdget2004]

Ted Cruz is planning to battle his party over Obamacare again — this time, if Senate Republicans seek to extend subsidies that could be killed by the Supreme Court as soon as this month.

In an interview with POLITICO, the 2016 presidential candidate weighed in on the high-stakes Supreme Court case that could end subsidies for millions of people who receive their health insurance through the federal exchange. A majority of Republican senators have endorsed an approach to keep those subsidies in place until September 2017, but Cruz flatly said “no” when asked if he’d sign on as well.

“I think the best legislative option is to allow states to opt out,” Cruz said in the Capitol. “I am cautiously optimistic that the Supreme Court will conclude in King vs. Burwell that the Obama IRS disregarded the plain language of the statute and acted lawlessly. And when that occurs, it will be a real opportunity for Congress to lead.”

He added: “In a perfect world, we would take that opportunity to repeal Obamacare. At a minimum, we should allow states to opt out.”

[nitzy]

I will be very disappointed if he ultimately votes in favor of Obamatrade. I am not convinced that he will.

Regarding fast track authority, there is a legitimate argument that can be made that Presidents need to be able to negotiate in good faith with other countries without the threat of Congress holding up and changing the negotiations midstream. I don't know if I fully agree with that argument but it can legitimately be made. This is especially true if he thinks he might be President someday and have a Congress that is controlled by the Dems.

I don't know this answer and I would be curious to find out....Has a Democrat controlled congress ever given a Republican president fast track authority on a trade bill or a treaty such as they are working on with Iran?

[WIBamian]

Cruz's 'Yes' vote on the TPA paves the way for a Global Affordable Care Act that favors pharmaceutical companies at the expense of sick people, just like with Obamacare in America.

WikiLeaks said "The Healthcare Annex seeks to regulate state schemes for medicines and medical devices. It forces healthcare authorities to give big pharmaceutical companies more information about national decisions on public access to medicine, and grants corporations greater powers to challenge decisions they perceive as harmful to their interests."

This means that American senior citizens and people unable to afford medical care and medicine here in the United States will be unable to shop for affordable prices in other countries. The Big Pharm will enjoy an unrestricted monopoly to charge unreasonable prices to every person affected, in which goverment will happily subsidize with taxpayers dollars, just like they do with Obamacare.

So the Supreme Court might strike down Obamacare, but the ObamaTrade treaty will make that moot as Obama's legacy is ensured with the Global Obamacare that will bankrupt the middle class citizens throughout the world.

This is what Cruz does not want you to know about.

ANNEX ON TRANSPARENCY AND PROCEDURAL FAIRNESS FOR PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS AND MEDICAL DEVICES

[TNMOUTH]

But he is a traitor. He sold us out! He isn’t a Conservative. He voted for TPA and the visa thing too...dont ya know!

There, I am just trying to post what the trolls will post.

I will also continue to stand with Cruz and give to his campaign.

[TNMOUTH]

Right...because he has a history of being very Liberal....right?

Get a grip.

[odawg]

“Right...because he has a history of being very Liberal....right?

Get a grip.”

Yes. His vote on Obamatrade, along with most of the Republicans, was to support the Obama agenda, and that is NOT conservative, and as Drudge correctly observed, it is treason. He voted with Obama on the Iranian armament bill. These votes will change your life. If you want to submerge the United States into a global cabal, Cruz is trying to deliver that to you. If you want Iran to be capable of striking the United States with nuclear missiles, Cruz is trying to deliver that to you. He wants to establish his conservative credentials with words. He may draw a line in the sand over some subset of Obamacare, or announce, again, how much he loves the Constitution. Words are so cheap.

[odawg]

Senator Sessions told how the fast track works on Rush’s program today. Congress will have 20 hours to vote, with no discussion whatsoever. He said the bill would be entered in at 4 pm one evening and the vote would have to be taken before lunch the next day. If you can find anything legitimate in that, please clue me in.

[odawg]

Trump, Walker, Perry

[Uncle Miltie]

Trump! Lol.

Walker: amnesty.

[Georgia Girl 2]

“If we can just get Cruz past this TPA thing”

Get him past it to do what vote for TPP? How do you get past saying you are the biggest conservative in the universe and then vote to give a Muzzie loving commie full throttle authority to negotiate a 12 country trade deal that will encompass 40% of the world’s GDP? Please explain that to me. Why would Cruz even entertain giving up the authority to cut and paste any agreement Obama wants to make? Cruz is dead to me and I imagine a great many former fans like me. This is a total lapse of judgment on the part of Ted Cruz.

[Georgia Girl 2]

“Trump, Walker, Perry”

I’ve narrowed it down to Trump, Perry, sit home.

[odawg]

If Walker is for amnesty, that is also my plan.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Well in your heart you know Mitt Walker is for amnesty. He has said it too many times. Well before he was agains’t it. :-)

[odawg]

About the only politician who lived up to his campaign promises that I know of was Reagan. I bet anything that 80% of the people on this site believe Bobby Jindal is conservative. Like Cruz he very carefully goes about the country saying precisely the conservative thing. I’m here in Louisiana; he is talking out of both sides of his mouth. He governs just like Obama. He term expires in Janurary and he is leaving the state finances in shambles. He’ll never win another election in Louisiana.

[TNMOUTH]

So, who do you support that has a better track record?

[Yosemitest]

Rep Dave Brat (R) Virginia told us WHAT TO DO !


" GLENN: All right. So Friday is the day.
The vote happens TOMORROW.
And, Dave, what should people do?
Should we call our congressmen?

DAVE: Yeah.
Right.
Ask your congressmen to explain to you
what they know about it.

And if they don’t tell you anything,
say,
I don’t trust the current regime.
And I want A NO VOTE out of you.
I mean, that’s what —
the phone calls coming into my district are 21 against.
And I’m voting my constituents and my principles.
And in a year, if we sort this thing out and it becomes transparent and everything’s fine, I’m a free trader, I’ll vote yes.
But right now — Obamacare, right, it was so — it was going to lower costs.
Read the first sentence of Obamacare.
Right?
It will provide insurance to more people, and it will lower costs.
Well, it didn’t lower the costs.
Everybody has the check in the mail now.
You learn the hard way.
And you have a $5,000 deductible.
Oops.
We didn’t know that going in, in our talking points
And I’m worried the same thing can happen in this trade deal.
Oops.
There’s a little deal in there, and we missed it.
Well, that’s not good governance. "



"DAVE: ... But in this day and age, THE FIRST FEW WORDS ARE THE KEY.

We’ll GIVE TRADE AUTHORITY TO President Obama.
And that’s the — that’s the big asterisk.
So we’re going to give more authority to a president who has already done a run around us on executive amnesty, on the IRF, and the list just goes down and down and down.
Breaking promises on Obamacare, EPA overreach, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Some guys are in districts where trade is huge, and they’re representing their people, which is their job.
And so, you know, different representatives really do have a tough votes (Phoenix) at times.
But in my view, THERE'S TOO MANY NOSES IN THIS THING. "

Here's a link to THEBLAZE TV if you have a subscription.
Start at 02:34:35 and go thru to 02:48:45 .

Glenn Beck Radio Program 06-11-2015 ( 2:59:50 )

But the whole 3 hour show, especially with Rabbi Daniel Lapin from the American Alliance of Jews and Christians, is well worth your time.

Now that sentence IMMEDIATELY makes me AGAINST THE BILL:

We’ll GIVE TRADE AUTHORITY TO President Obama.

As long as THAT FACT is in the bill, I will NEVER be for it, and will ALWAYS BE AGAINST THAT BILL !
But let's look at what else he made clear.

" DAVE: ... Well, you guys probably covered the doc fix.
And on that thing, our leadership can go to Democrat leadership and find 300 votes, and it’s a done deal.
And worse than that,
our guys have dug into it. Mick Mulvaney and Jim Jordan have done great work on this thing.
And there are actually FIVE (5) HIGH HURDLES TO STOPPING THIS THING.
So basically if we vote yes
the best way to think about this thing is just a locomotive train.
Right?
If we hit go, that train is going forward, AND THERE'S NO STOPPING IT.
...
DAVE: ... It’s a living document.
The scariest part of it is that
IT CREATES this Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission.
And that commission will likely HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO NOT ONLY CHANGE ITS MEMBERSHIP AND THE AGREEMENT ITSELF,
BUT TO ISSUE REGULATIONS RELATING TO IMMIGRATION,
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, CURRENCY POLICY, LABOR POLICY.
It’s an open-ended commission.
And that’s why I was using that locomotive analogy.
Once you start that train down the road, IN ORDER TO STOP IT YOU HAVE TO GO TO "NOs" IN ORDER TO STOP IT FROM
Ways and Means,
the Rules Committee,
Senate Finance,
and the House,
and the Senate.
SO THERE'S FIVE VOTES YOU NEED TO STOP IT.
So our conservative group, the Freedom Caucus, with Jim Jordan and all these guys, we’re trying to change the direction of that thing
so that any member can stop it. "

NEVER LET THIS ABOMINATION (Obama-Nation) OF A BILL GET STARTED.

KILL IT NOW !

[arthurus]

Once bought it is hard to get unbought. The fact of your betrayal becomes a further weapon to insure your new reliability.

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[nitzy]

From what I have read, that is not accurate. I have read that TPA allows 45 days after it is submitted to the committee to go over the agreement and study it. The actual vote will only be 20 hours per house but it’s not like it is secret one day then the president presents it to congress and they have 20 hours to pass it. It will be public anywhere from 45 to 90 days before it is fully passed by both houses of congress.

This is all under the caveat - if they follow the rules, if they make it all public, if what I have read is correct.

[odawg]

If the 20 hours is completely meaningless, why is it there?

[tanknetter]

If he votes against Obamatrade after voting in TPA to remove the Senate filibuster, and it passes, Cruz has pulled a John Kerry “I was for the bill before I was against it” move.