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Cruz: Senate Democrats ‘Demanded Kathleen Sebelius’ Head’
CBS ^ | http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/04/14/cruz-senate-democrats-demanded-kathleen-sebelius-head/

Posted on 04/14/2014 8:31:16 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Sen. Ted Cruz believes Senate Democrats are the ones who forced Kathleen Sebelius to step down as health and human services secretary.

Cruz told NBC News that Democrats are worried that Republicans will take back the Senate because of Obamacare.

“Kathleen Sebelius’ resignation is the latest indication of just what a disaster Obamacare is. Obamacare is the most disastrous, the most damaging piece of legislation in modern times,” Cruz told NBC News. “And I believe she resigned because Senate Democrats are scared.”

Cruz told Fox News that Senate Democrats “demanded Kathleen Sebelius’ head.”

“They are running scared because every one of them in their races across the country, they’re underwater,” Cruz said. “They’re losing because Obamacare has hurt so many millions of people.”

President Barack Obama nominated his budget director, Sylvia Mathews Burrell, to head the Health Department. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., told CBS News that Burwell’s nomination won’t “quiet the controversy.”

“They know they’ve got a math problem with Obamacare,” Blackburn told “Face the Nation.” “The numbers are not going to work out so that the program is actuarially sound, and they’re going to have to have somebody to kind of spin the numbers.”

Sebelius told NBC News Sunday that the Obama administration’s timeline for having ready the new health care law’s online sign-up system “was just flat out wrong.”

The departing health chief also said the two months when healthcare.gov was plagued with technical problems were “a pretty dismal time” and the low point of her five-year tenure. But she defended the law’s impact and said millions of Americans now have access to health care because of it.

“People have competitive choices and real information for the first time ever in this insurance market,” said Sebelius, who last week announced her resignation.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: abortion; cruz; deathpanels; demsobamacare; kathleensebelius; marshablackburn; nbc; obamacare; sebelius; sebeliusfired; sylviamathewsburrell; sylviamathewsburwell; tedcruz; tennessee; texas; zerocare
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To: SoConPubbie

Not, republicans forced democrats

rather demorcats have power an forced resignation.

cruz better watch his wording.


21 posted on 04/14/2014 9:20:09 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Servant of the Cross
What Cruz said: "Senate Democrats ‘Demanded Kathleen Sebelius’ Head’

What Bill Clinton heard:

Sebelius ... Head

22 posted on 04/14/2014 9:25:29 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Chode
with a salary like that and the dyke can't afford a brush??? looks like it just crawled out of bed...

She is a complete mess, from what I'm hearing. I heard she was involved in the Clinton coverup of the Vince Foster enigma, dumpster dove through his garbage the very evening he died.

23 posted on 04/14/2014 9:25:40 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: BerryDingle
why am i NOT surprised???
24 posted on 04/14/2014 9:28:23 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: SoConPubbie

It seems I remember a post on this site several days ago which pointed out that Sebilius’s replacement was the Obama staffer in the budget office that ordered the WWII Vets blocked from visiting their memorial during the so-called gov’t. shutdown. The GOP should be building campaign ads now that visually make the connection. Scenes of the vets standing in front of the barricades, and headshots of the newby looking unpleasant. Then a pic of Obama looking smug with his chin in the air. (Won’t be hard to find one of those.)


25 posted on 04/14/2014 9:33:58 AM PDT by Avid Coug
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To: SoConPubbie
If Chris Wallace is grilling Democrats, it must be really bad. Chris normally spews Democratic talking points and avoids Republican ones. So if he's doing this, he must have got the go ahead from the higher ups.

Chris should be asking questions like: "Deceasing the American work week from 40 hours to 30, why is that a good idea Senator?" and "Why separate American's from their Doctors, why do that Congressman?".

26 posted on 04/14/2014 9:46:13 AM PDT by sr4402
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To: Slyfox

She's hawt.

27 posted on 04/14/2014 9:54:44 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Gaffer

If the Dems demanded her head they did it only to protect their butts. I agree with you that she should pay a high price for her willful and likely illegal efforts. She and her boss knew the website would not work and that was the whole idea, IMHO. The contracts awarded to Mooshell’s buddy were also illegal in my opinion. There is a hot spot in Hell for this thing and her partners in crime.


28 posted on 04/14/2014 10:20:09 AM PDT by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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To: Lazamataz
She's hawt.

Sylvia Mathews-Burrell = Ellen Degenerate

Obama Budget Director = ideal candidate to break any budget

Secretary of Heath = the mission is to destroy our health

29 posted on 04/14/2014 11:37:38 AM PDT by Praxeologue
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To: Lazamataz

With a ukelele and bow tie she could be a dressed down Tiny Tim.


30 posted on 04/14/2014 11:43:40 AM PDT by fuzzthatwuz
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks SoConPubbie, related:
31 posted on 04/14/2014 2:19:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Sylvia Mathews Burwell pick complicates Democrats’ plans
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By SEUNG MIN KIM and BURGESS EVERETT
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/sylvia-mathews-burwell-democrats-obamacare-affordable-care-act-105641.html

> Senate Democrats planned to spend the spring ramping up their election-year message on income inequality — not relitigating Obamacare... Republicans hope to turn Sylvia Mathews Burwell’s nomination to run the Department of Health and Human Services — announced by President Barack Obama on Friday — into a proxy war over Obamacare. That leaves the Senate’s most vulnerable Democrats veering back to the very issue that has become their biggest political liability heading into the midterms.


32 posted on 04/14/2014 2:56:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: ColdOne
Please add me to you list. Thank you

You've been added!
33 posted on 04/14/2014 5:53:43 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Gaffer
If the demanded her head, there’s a job left undone in my opinion. She’ll be retired with a fat government pension and positions on so many company boards of directors in the health industry it isn’t funny. She needs to pay more substantively for her complicity and deceit.

Will never happen. Being Democrat means never having to say you're sorry.

34 posted on 04/15/2014 8:29:58 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: Chode
with a salary like that and the dyke can't afford a brush??? looks like it just crawled out of bed...

"What's wrong with her hair? Looks OK to me..."


35 posted on 04/15/2014 8:36:10 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: COBOL2Java
really... i mean like what's wrong with it???

36 posted on 04/15/2014 2:57:09 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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