Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Cruzin'
Mar 23, 2015 21:12:10 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2015 21:12:10 GMT -5
Innit!
|
|
Dub
Administrator
I'm gettin' so the past is the only thing I can remember.
Posts: 19,872
|
Cruzin'
Mar 23, 2015 21:23:08 GMT -5
Post by Dub on Mar 23, 2015 21:23:08 GMT -5
…But the election would be a lot more fun if the Republicans didn't run a Democrat. It's only fair. The Democrats keep running Republicans.
|
|
|
Cruzin'
Mar 23, 2015 21:44:24 GMT -5
Post by frazer on Mar 23, 2015 21:44:24 GMT -5
James, I'm starting to think no one clicked on your link. I did. Heh! Seriously though - this makes you wonder about his team. If Taylor Swift knows enough to buy up the relevant web names, a prospective president's organisers should be on top of it.
|
|
|
Cruzin'
Mar 24, 2015 7:47:50 GMT -5
Post by Lonnie on Mar 24, 2015 7:47:50 GMT -5
He's going to have to either buy that domain or sue the owner for whatever he can trump up (unintentional pun). Yup, his team dropped the whole bag of balls on this one.
|
|
|
Cruzin'
Mar 25, 2015 12:47:38 GMT -5
Post by Fingerplucked on Mar 25, 2015 12:47:38 GMT -5
I'm glad he's running. It'll be entertaining. And I'll say this much for him: he stays on point. I watched him in an interview last week. Every syllable he uttered had a purpose. I think he'll kill off more than a few fellow Republicans in the primaries. I take it back. After announcing his candidacy and saying on Monday? that he would repeal every single word of Obamacare, on Tuesday? he announced that he's signing his whole family up for Obamacare. That's not exactly staying on point. Politicians in general tend to play pretty loose with the truth, but Cruz has always struck me as particularly slimy. I get the impression he doesn't really believe most of what he says, but that he believes that his target audience will believe that he believes.
|
|
|
Cruzin'
Mar 25, 2015 13:22:22 GMT -5
Post by theevan on Mar 25, 2015 13:22:22 GMT -5
I'm glad he's running. It'll be entertaining. And I'll say this much for him: he stays on point. I watched him in an interview last week. Every syllable he uttered had a purpose. I think he'll kill off more than a few fellow Republicans in the primaries. I take it back. After announcing his candidacy and saying on Monday? that he would repeal every single word of Obamacare, on Tuesday? he announced that he's signing his whole family up for Obamacare. That's not exactly staying on point. A disingenuous criticism.
|
|
|
Cruzin'
Mar 25, 2015 13:41:34 GMT -5
Post by Fingerplucked on Mar 25, 2015 13:41:34 GMT -5
Why?
|
|
|
Cruzin'
Mar 25, 2015 14:27:28 GMT -5
Post by theevan on Mar 25, 2015 14:27:28 GMT -5
Per CNN, NPR, et al
His wife left her job at Goldman Sachs to assist in the campaign and they lost their coverage under that plan. As a senator he is required by law to obtain his coverage in the ACA marketplace. So he did.
Anything else I can google for ya?
|
|
|
Cruzin'
Mar 25, 2015 14:29:30 GMT -5
Post by fauxmaha on Mar 25, 2015 14:29:30 GMT -5
The only part of that I find troublesome is that his wife had a job at Goldman Sachs.
|
|
|
Post by brucemacneill on Mar 25, 2015 14:40:00 GMT -5
Wish my wife had a job at Goldman Sachs.
|
|
|
Cruzin'
Mar 25, 2015 14:50:21 GMT -5
Post by fauxmaha on Mar 25, 2015 14:50:21 GMT -5
You don't have enough political connections for her to get one.
|
|
|
Post by majorminor on Mar 25, 2015 15:22:12 GMT -5
President Signs Order Making Ted Cruz Ineligible for Obamacare BY ANDY BOROWITZ WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — Just hours after Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told CNN that he had no choice but to sign up for Obamacare, President Barack Obama signed an executive order making Cruz ineligible for coverage under the Affordable Care Act. “Clearly, the hardship of receiving Obamacare was causing Ted a great deal of pain,” the President said. “This should take care of that.” Obama acknowledged that the executive order, which makes Cruz the only American expressly forbidden from signing up for Obamacare, was an extraordinary measure, but added, “I felt it was a necessary humanitarian gesture to protect Ted from the law he hates.” Even as he signed the order, the President said that he was “torn” about barring Cruz from coverage, stating,”He’s definitely someone who would benefit from seeing a doctor.” In an official statement released later in the day, Cruz blasted the executive order and accused Obama of distorting his position on Obamacare: “I never said I didn’t want to have it. I said I didn’t want everyone else in the country to have it.”
|
|
|
Cruzin'
Mar 25, 2015 15:27:33 GMT -5
Post by theevan on Mar 25, 2015 15:27:33 GMT -5
|
|
|
Cruzin'
Mar 25, 2015 15:38:00 GMT -5
Post by billhammond on Mar 25, 2015 15:38:00 GMT -5
One of the better Borowitz blurbs.
|
|
|
Post by fauxmaha on Mar 25, 2015 16:10:13 GMT -5
So there are death panels?
|
|
|
Cruzin'
Mar 25, 2015 16:27:35 GMT -5
Post by Fingerplucked on Mar 25, 2015 16:27:35 GMT -5
Per CNN, NPR, et al His wife left her job at Goldman Sachs to assist in the campaign and they lost their coverage under that plan. As a senator he is required by law to obtain his coverage in the ACA marketplace. So he did. Anything else I can google for ya? I think I see your point. I wasn't aware that he was required to sign up for Obamacare and the law permitted no other options or choices.* I thought he was just trying to get good coverage for a reasonable price. I'd know these things if my TV news wasn't dominated by the plane that went down yesterday. * Can't he just get his own insurance? Or pay a small fine and go without insurance? These are not disingenuous questions.
|
|
|
Cruzin'
Mar 25, 2015 17:38:15 GMT -5
Post by brucemacneill on Mar 25, 2015 17:38:15 GMT -5
" good coverage for a reasonable price"
Take it from one who bought it, it ain't good coverage and it's damned expensive considering it doesn't cover much of anything besides abortions and BC pills. Most everything else is out of pocket until you pay the deductibles or get hit by a bus. I handed the insurance company a little over 5K over 8 months and got less than $200 coverage. You gave them another 2K in subsidy on my behalf. My wife's actually behalf. I just pay the bills.
|
|
|
Post by dickt on Mar 25, 2015 18:03:06 GMT -5
" good coverage for a reasonable price" Take it from one who bought it, it ain't good coverage and it's damned expensive considering it doesn't cover much of anything besides abortions and BC pills. Most everything else is out of pocket until you pay the deductibles or get hit by a bus. I handed the insurance company a little over 5K over 8 months and got less than $200 coverage. You gave them another 2K in subsidy on my behalf. My wife's actually behalf. I just pay the bills. That one got three Pinocchios. Obamacare cannot cover abortions. And if Cruz wants to forgo the govt contribution he can buy his own plan or self insure and pay the fine which is what someone with principles would do
|
|
|
Cruzin'
Mar 25, 2015 18:37:56 GMT -5
Post by fauxmaha on Mar 25, 2015 18:37:56 GMT -5
The question of abortion and Obamacare is not simple, but here's the information straight from the source. The short version is, depending on which state you live in, "Qualified Health Plans" (which is to say, plans receiving Federal subsidies) may very well cover elective abortions. Why the Washington Post feels the need to dissemble on this point is anyone's guess.
|
|
|
Cruzin'
Mar 25, 2015 18:38:43 GMT -5
Post by millring on Mar 25, 2015 18:38:43 GMT -5
obamacarefacts.com/congress-obamacare/Cruz never insisted that everyone "self insure". If he cannot -- by law -- buy insurance on the open market, he's buying it the only way available to him and his family.
|
|