Posted on 06/25/2015 10:27:30 AM PDT by Isara
Releases statement on King v. Burwell
HOUSTON, Texas — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, released the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s decision on King v. Burwell:
“Today’s decision in King v. Burwell is judicial activism, plain and simple. For the second time in just a few years, a handful of unelected judges has rewritten the text of Obamacare in order to impose this failed law on millions of Americans. The first time, the Court ignored federal law and magically transformed a statutory ‘penalty’ into a ‘tax.’ Today, these robed Houdinis transmogrified a ‘federal exchange’ into an exchange ‘established by the State.’
“As Justice Scalia rightfully put it, ‘Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is ‘established by the State.” He also said, ‘We should start calling this law SCOTUSCare’ – I agree.
“If this were a bankruptcy case, or any other case of ordinary statutory interpretation, the result would have been 9-0, with the Court unanimously reversing the Obama administration’s illegal actions. But instead, politics intervened.
“For nakedly political reasons, the Supreme Court willfully ignored the words that Congress wrote, and instead read into the law their preferred policy outcome. These judges have joined with President Obama in harming millions of Americans. Unelected judges have once again become legislators, and bad ones at that. They are lawless, and they hide their prevarication in legalese. Our government was designed to be one of laws, not of men, and this transparent distortion is disgraceful.
“At the same time, crocodile tears are flooding our nation’s capital today over the Supreme Court’s decision to illegally rewrite Obamacare, which has been a disaster since its inception. But one day of faux outrage from the Washington Cartel won’t fool the millions of courageous conservatives across our country. They know the Republican leadership in Washington is quietly celebrating the Court’s decision. If they believe this issue is now settled so they don’t have to address it, they are sorely mistaken.
“Every GOP candidate for the Republican nomination should know that this decision makes the 2016 election a referendum on the full repeal of Obamacare.
“I have made repeal of this disastrous law a top priority since the first day I arrived in the Senate and have made its repeal central to my campaign. Any candidate not willing to do the same—and campaign on it every day—should step aside.
“The Court adopted the IRS’s blatantly unlawful reading of the statute to make subsidies available to individuals on federal exchanges, when Congress expressly provided the opposite.
“After today’s ruling, Obamacare will now be responsible for imposing illegal taxes on more than 11 million individuals and for burdening hundreds of thousands of businesses with illegal penalties on their workers, killing jobs, and further slowing economic growth. President Obama’s health care law remains deeply unpopular and is harming countless Americans by increasing costs and worsening the quality of care.
“I remain fully committed to the repeal of Obamacare—every single word of it. And, in 2017, we will do exactly that.”
That is why Cruz has my support - and why RINOs oppose him.
Indeed!
I said “I suspect.” My opinion, my suspicion.
Why was Cruz even supporting it to begin with?
Why hasn't the current Congress already voted to repeal Obamacare?
When we're reduced to accepting "the best we have," it's probably time to look elsewhere. For over a century the framework of the GOP has been designed to "promote from within" an established hierarchy. The ONLY presidential nominees who weren't "preselected" by the hierarchy were Goldwater and Reagan. We're fooling ourselves if we believe that Bush, Gore, Bush, McCain and Romney weren't chosen long before the first vote was cast. Sarah Palin has her weaknesses, but she was astute enough four years ago to not enter a race that was rigged from the start.
I'm seeing the same thing. It's discouraging to say the least.
At this point, I don’t think it matters what laws pass and which are repealed. Remember all those votes on same-sex marriage, the ones where it was banned? The elites want gay marriage; they get gay marriage. They want Obamacare (for others, that is); they get Obamacare. Forget democracy. It’s over.
Ted Cruz is one of the few voices of sanity we have left.
I wish I were a troll. Instead of being under a bridge and coming out to tax you-I have to read “CRUZ MANURE.”
Thanks for that uplifting suggestion.
Because when their lips move they are lying.
This is all BS. This party is just like the other, a bunch of lying, cheating, self-enriching demagogues.
Yep. It's rigged again, I think, for no surname Jeb! We might get lucky and see Rubio beat him!
America ended...quite some time ago.
That “Both Sides Do It” line always gets applause. I don’t blame you for wanting to get some encouragement.
This ruling has push America closer to CWII
“What else is there really to say?”
Nothing. You can now sit down and shut-up.
Ted Cruz REMAINS the only true Conservative in this race.
~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~
1 Kings 14: 10 “ ‘Because of this, I am going to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam. I will cut off from Jeroboam every last male in Israel—slave or free. I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns dung, until it is all gone.
America needs Obama-care like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.
I don’t really intend to. He didn’t fool us with that little, phony vote on TPA the other day. Mr H1B is apparently just like the rest. Strategic, sleight-of-hand voting designed to confuse and baffle the unwary.
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