CRUZ or LOSE!
Posted on 02/02/2015 6:30:57 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) introduced an “Obamacare Repeal Act” that would repeal the Affordable Care Act “as if such Act had not been enacted.”
The text of Cruz’s bill to repeal the 2,700-page law — which spawned another 10,000 pages of regulations — barely runs onto the third page. It comes as Republicans have debated whether to use a procedural tactic that circumvents filibusters known as reconciliation to repeal the legislation.
“This repeal bill is pro-growth, pro-jobs, and pro-liberty,” Cruz says in a statement on the bill. “It provides time for Congress to start over, to pass true market-based reforms that will allow the purchase of insurance across state lines, expand health savings accounts, and make health insurance, personal, portable, and affordable.”
The bill is co-sponsored by 44 Senate Republicans, including Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) and several leading members of the Obamacare working group that is mulling the GOP’s possible response to a major anti-Obamacare lawsuit pending before the Supreme Court. If the Court rules against the administration, Americans who enrolled in Obamacare through the federal exchanges would not qualify for subsidies.
“We must send this bill to the president’s desk,” Cruz adds. “If he vetoes it, the GOP Congress should pass bill after bill to stop Obamacare. Each will have broad support among the American people, and Democrats in both chambers will be hard-pressed not to support them. The President will be faced with a clear choice: either listen to the American people, who have never supported this law, or ignore them, and ignore the disastrous harms to millions of families, young people, and the most vulnerable among us.”
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Mia LostLove is not in the Senate.
Me neither. Cruz all the way. SLASH AND BURN!
I cannot understand why Ted was not even mentioned in the last Iowa poll. When he tied for first after Steven King’s Conservative weekend bask? Who makes up the list of so-called candidates, anyway?
I hope Cruz runs. I like Mike Pence, as well. A wonderful man with a lot of depth, not to mention good character.
Ted Cruz is a remarkable man.
He reminds me of the joke about the two vultures sitting on the fence waiting for something to die so they could eat.
The Ted Cruz vulture finally tells the other vulture he’s through waiting, he’s hungry and is going to go down to the pasture and kill something.
It’s just so past time for someone in the Congress to do SOMETHING besides sitting around and picking at the scab over this festering sore we call the Federal Government.
No kidding...Walker supports walkers crossing over the border.
Cruz or bust here.
Thanks I havent expanded to twitter yet.
I see, well, sour grapes have often worked much better than honey.
CRUZ or LOSE!
Honey.. our HOUSE is on fire here in America. Don’t send me a hybrid irrigation truck to examine ways to put it out, send the FIRE department, Ted Cruz!
This is the plan most of us thought would be introduced — actually long ago. Yes!
Both Harry Reid and Obama changed the rules to meet their needs, why not McConnell?
Let's make 44 votes "deeming it passed."
Keep looking UP, Ted, there is so much work to do.
John Cornyn (RINO-TX) for sure. Bet on it.
Bttt
Cornyn is a co-sponsor. As is McCain.
OK, you’ve got my curiosity, what are some of the GOPe positions he’s taken, campaigned for, or actually implemented ?
Risch, Enzi, Sessions, Collins, Corker, Donnely, Murky, Hoeven, Ensign, Kirk, Sullivan, & Bennet
THUMP!
(my jaw hitting the floor)
Sessions.. hmph. Odd.
Cruz is a true leader and listens to we the people.
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