[AuntB]

Where is your boy’s ‘detailed’ health plan?

Giving us John Roberts to insure we are stuck with Obamacare was enough.

[don-o]

Giving us John Roberts to insure we are stuck with Obamacare was enough.

THAT nonsense again?

Let's begin with the claim that Senator Cruz "approved" Roberts and therefore put him on the Supreme Court. The cheering Trumpkins at the rally apparently didn't know that only members of the U.S. Senate get to approve the nomination of a Supreme Court justice. When Roberts was confirmed in 2005, Cruz was the Solicitor General of Texas. He didn't become a U.S. Senator until 2013. To put it in terms that even a Trump supporter can comprehend, Cruz can't possibly be "the one that got Justice Roberts onto the United States Supreme Court" because he didn't arrive in the Senate until 8 years after the man was confirmed.

It is true that Cruz was supportive of Roberts, as were most Republicans at the time of his nomination. He realized that this was a mistake after the Chief Justice joined the Court's liberals at the eleventh hour to save Obamacare's individual mandate. In fact, Cruz consistently denounced that outrageous ruling during his 2012 Senate campaign. As he put it just after the decision: "This is a sad day for liberty. The Supreme Court has abdicated its responsibility to safeguard the Constitution, and it has rewritten Obamacare in an ill-advised attempt to save it." And Cruz has since bucked the GOP establishment over the funding of the law.