Senator Ted Cruz on Monday announced his bid for the White House to a live audience in Virginia.
Full of ugly hubris, Cruz (the all-Canadian, Cubano legislator) said, "Imagine in 2017, a new president signing legislation repealing every word of Obamacare."
If successful, that "new president" will be Ted Cruz, and the moment he signs that bill into law, he and his family will have zero health care insurance. The Tea Party Republican – just 24 hours after once again calling for the repeal of the President's health care plan that has delivered affordable health care to literally millions of Americans, and extended the age students, like those at Liberty, can be under their parents' plan – confessed to CNN's Dana Bash this afternoon he just signed up for Obamacare.
"We'll be getting new health insurance and we'll presumably do it through my job with the Senate, and so we'll be on the federal exchange with millions of others on the federal exchange," Cruz said. He called it "transitioning." Hypocritically, he did not call it Obamacare but "the federal exchange."
Why?
Cruz's wife, Heidi Cruz, a managing director at Goldman Sachs' Houston office, is taking an unpaid leave of absence from her job, presumably to avoid any appearance of impropriety. The Cruz family has been getting its health care insurance from Mrs. Cruz's employer, but now they are no longer eligible while she is on leave.
So Senator Cruz signed up for Obamacare, and sees absolutely no hypocrisy, or even irony, with taking that action.
Cruz, it should be noted, has every right to buy health care insurance privately, like many Americans do, but chose to sign up for Obamacare and to accept the federal government subsidy that he is entitled to as a sitting U.S. Senator.
"I believe we should follow the text of every law, even (a) law I disagree with," Cruz told CNN. "It's one of the real differences -- if you look at President Obama and the lawlessness, if he disagrees with a law he simply refuses to follow it or claims the authority to unilaterally change."
CNN's Dana Bash was shocked and looked incredulous as she asked, "That means you are going to take a government subsidy?" She noted, "The irony is kind of unbelievable."
Source Blog: David Badash (3-24-15)
http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/ted_cruz_sees_absolutely_no_irony_or_hypocrisy_now_that_he_s_signed_up_for_obamacare_video
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