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Ted Cruz may have discovered a way to totally change Obamacare without 60 Senate votes
American Thinker ^ | Mar. 12, 2017 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 03/12/2017 2:31:17 PM PDT by libstripper

Democrats tend to love sneaky lawyer tricks because their side is so good at them. The passage of Obamacare under the Senate rules governing “reconciliation” is the most prominent example of creatively applying the rules to get what they want.

But it turns out that there are some really smart and creative legal minds on the GOP side, and now that the GOP runs the Senate, the sauce for the Democrat goose also flavors the Republican gander, if that isn’t too disagreeable an abuse of metaphorical license. Ted Cruz is one such legal mind; in the words of legendary Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz, “…one of the best students I ever had.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cruz; cruzlims; fillibuster; lyinted; obamacare; primarycruz; repositoryhealthcare; ryancare
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Ted Cruz, a really good lawyer, seems to have come up with a way that will enable Vice President Pence to make the parlimentary decisions that could pave the way to a successful repeal & replace of ObolaCare.
1 posted on 03/12/2017 2:31:17 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: libstripper

Cruz is a reckless loose cannon. Bring it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3534079/posts?page=62#62

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3534079/posts?page=64#64


2 posted on 03/12/2017 2:34:12 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: libstripper
You mean they can't just deem it passed?
3 posted on 03/12/2017 2:34:49 PM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: libstripper

I read that this morning elsewhere but the GOP are too chicken to use any tactic that might actually benefit We The People and cave to the screaming and screeching of the Left that they are bastardizing the legislative process. Watch & See.

And YES I am still a fan of Ted Cruz even if it isn’t a popular thing to do around here. It was a brutal race. Politics is pretty much a blood-sport. We engage, we move on, we move forward to win the war not just the battle.


4 posted on 03/12/2017 2:35:58 PM PDT by Qwackertoo (Worst 8 years ever, First Affirmative Action President, I hope those who did this to us SUFFER MOST!)
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To: libstripper

Anyone who thinks Turtle McGurtle and the Senate RINO contingent (which is most of them) would go along with this plan — brilliant though it may be — is smoking funny cigarettes.


5 posted on 03/12/2017 2:37:39 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: Hostage

Don’t know if you’re for or against Ted with your post :)

The primaries are over, ryan is a traitor, mccain said Trump should show proof of wiretappig or take it back.

If Ted can figure out a way to destroy the house plan, great.

They need 51 of 52 votes to pass it anyway. Lee, Paul and Cruz make that impossible.

And if Trump tries to twist their arm on it (I have NO IDEA what he is thinking as he is great and confusing folks on purpose) then I will feel let down by Trump.

Let me make clear that I NEVER KNOW what it in Trump’s head and I like that. Means no one else does either.

He may be saying the bill’s not so bad because he knows it can’t pass the senate.


6 posted on 03/12/2017 2:39:01 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Qwackertoo

If he can pull this off, he will officially be out of my personal doghouse.


7 posted on 03/12/2017 2:41:36 PM PDT by Luircin (Dancing in the streets! Time to DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: libstripper

The republican leadership in the Senate twist themselves into pretzels out of fear of what the democrats might do in the future. Fear not, for the democrats will use any trick available to them. Without hesitation. Therefore, Senate republicans should change the rules so that any matter before them, unless explicitly prohibited by the Constitution, needs only a simple majority to pass. It really is just that simple.


8 posted on 03/12/2017 2:43:22 PM PDT by lakecumberlandvet (APPEASEMENT NEVER WORKS.)
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To: dp0622

We have seen trump in action and he seems to always be a few plays ahead of the rest, like a masterful chess player and artful taction I just cant see him falling for this one


9 posted on 03/12/2017 2:43:38 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Qwackertoo
And YES I am still a fan of Ted Cruz even if it isn’t a popular thing to do around here. It was a brutal race. Politics is pretty much a blood-sport. We engage, we move on, we move forward to win the war not just the battle.

I was and am as strong a Trumpser as you were a Cruiser, but, feeling Cruz was an excellent second choice, never wanted to excommunicate Cruisers. Ted's a great lawyer, just where we need him now, and this is the first idea to come up that gives a really good shot at a proper repeal/replace.

10 posted on 03/12/2017 2:43:54 PM PDT by libstripper (nd)
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Two things:

1. It’s still blowing up the rules and that means payback will be a b!tch if the Dems regain control

2. They won’t do it. Republicans never take risks like this to get things done, only Democrats do. Show me one example to the contrary.


11 posted on 03/12/2017 2:44:33 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: Qwackertoo

I agree with you that the GOP will most likely find a way to cave.

As for Cruz, I think he behaved very badly during the campaign but since the election he has redeemed himself several different times. He is a good man and a good conservative and may end up doing some great things.

He apparently went temporarily insane during the campaign but as you say, we must move on and move forward and Cruz right now is a definite positive force on our side.


12 posted on 03/12/2017 2:44:48 PM PDT by samtheman (ObamaGate = Watergate Squared)
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To: Qwackertoo
The stupid party is gutless. We control congress and the executive branch but feckless turtle face McConnell is scared stiff to exercise power in the senate and go nuclear. Likewise, Lyin’ Ryan is afraid to grab the bull by the horns and offer real repeal. These are not real men, but castrated eunuchs.
13 posted on 03/12/2017 2:46:20 PM PDT by Fungi (Five genera of fungi are responsible for 90% of all inhaled fungi. The remaining 10% will be named.)
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To: ronnie raygun

I have to really strongly agree.

This was one of his signature issues.

He knows he was set up by Ryan during the “pu##ygate” incident.

I hope/think he is playing ryan for a fool.


14 posted on 03/12/2017 2:50:33 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Hostage

Wow, judging from a review of your recent posts YOU’RE CARRYING WATER FOR PASSAGE OF RYANCARE. It will be interesting to see how far you carry on with that mission.


15 posted on 03/12/2017 2:51:42 PM PDT by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: dp0622

Does the new bill need 60 votes, or will 51 do? Your post claims 51. Why would Lee, Paul and/or Cruz vote against it? If it only needs 51, who cares about Cruz’s creative solutions?


16 posted on 03/12/2017 2:53:04 PM PDT by theoilpainter
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To: theoilpainter

They would vote against it because it is a lousy, non-conservative bill coming from the house. All three have rightly already bashed it

Regarding Cruz’ creative solution, ask someone smarter :)


17 posted on 03/12/2017 2:56:04 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: dp0622

I was once admiring of Cruz’ knack for standing up to the GOPe but then he was assimilated into it; proof is in Jeff Roe and Neil Bush.

Cruz can be smart and stupid at the same time. As other Freepers have wisely noted, he’s too smart by half.

This case is a prime example.

Sure, Cruz can advocate VP Pence pushing the Senate Parliamentarian aside to rule what can and cannot be voted on in reconcilation.

The problem is that it blows up the Senate rules. We might think. well fine, blow them up already. But in future years it means the dems can play the same game.

But the real reason to tell Cruz to go fly a kite is that demolishing Obamacare by reconciliation leaves the damn law in place, leaves its blueprints on the books signed into law.

It can be wrecked, busted, demolished, crunched, whatever but it’s still a damn law of the land, just not in effect.

That all sounds good. But in future years, when the Republicans fail because they are stupid, and they are in fact stupid and spineless, the democrat carping about republican failures in healthcare will play into a frustrated electorate and the democrats will slither their way back into control of Congress where they will resuscitate the ACA and they won’t need to get 60 votes etc.

We need Obamacare REPEALED, not busted up in RECONCILIATION.

See the difference? It’s important to understand that repeal NOT EQUAL to reconciliation.

A repeal is a law to take down a law.

Reconciliation can make a law ineffective, but leaves the law in place.

What is needed is for the President’s AG to play hardball because it’s the only thing the Left understands and can be defeated by.

Here’s a hardball strategy:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3534079/posts?page=61#61


18 posted on 03/12/2017 2:57:26 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Qwackertoo

Ted is by far a better choice then most of the GOPe cowards who are afraid of their shadows. Can’t believe how the GOPe cowers in the face of certain win.


19 posted on 03/12/2017 2:57:50 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: dp0622

>I hope/think he is playing ryan for a fool.

I sure hope so. Trump had repeatedly made political moves that turned out brilliant despite I and a lot of other people not having a clue about what he was up to.

I trust Trump, but Obamacare needs to go ASAP. It’s killing the middle class, so whatever Trump is about it needs to happen fast.


20 posted on 03/12/2017 2:58:59 PM PDT by RedWulf (#purge the nevertrumpers)
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