this u.s. senator is completely unhinged.

[spanone]

fuck you ted.




Ted Cruz Calls Supreme Court Justices 'Robed Houdinis' Over Obamacare Decision

June 25, 2015 President Obama's signature health care law saw a big victory on Thursday. And the lawmaker who shut down the government over it is outraged.

Ted Cruz gave an impassioned speech on the Senate floor Thursday afternoon, a few hours after the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to uphold the Affordable Care Act's subsidies nationwide. The senator from Texas, who is also running for president, called the decision "judicial activism, plain and simple."

"Today, these robed Houdinis have transmogrified a federal exchange into an exchange, quote, 'established by the State,' " he said. "This is lawless. As Justice [Antonin] Scalia rightfully put it, without objection, words no longer have meaning."

Cruz was referring to the challenge in King v. Burwell of a provision of the Affordable Care Act that calls for health care subsidies to come from "an exchange established by the State." Opponents of the law said that this language meant that subsidies cannot be made available to people who live in states that rely on the federal government to run their exchanges (there are 34 of them). Roberts wrote that this reading was too narrow, and said that section of the law could refer to both individual state exchanges and government-run exchanges.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/ted-cruz-obamacare-supreme-court-20150625

[arcane1]

1. I wonder how Cruz defines "State" in the 2nd amendment n/t

I'm just kidding. That would imply that he thinks about things

[spanone]

3. i heard him on m$nbc and he sounded insane...promised to repeal Obamacare after 2016 elections

ted should know that he's had his ass handed to him twice by the court....the ACA is the law

[arcane1]

6. He'll walk into the Oval Office and declare "I repeal this!"

[Angry Dragon]

2. why does anyone listen to this Canadian??

[spanone]

4. it's really hard to comprehend his appeal to any sector of voters?

[hifiguy]

11. I think you just insulted Canuckistan, and mightily, even if he was born there.

[tishaLA]

5. oh, puh-leeze

Most legal experts I've heard said SCOTUS should have ruled in favor of ACA just based on issues of standing, to say nothing of the merits.

[Xipe Totec]

7. Next time, write the laws clearly; In English, you nitwit!

They write laws in riddles and then get upset when they're not interpreted their way

[virtualobserver]

8. He'd better hope he's never involved in an election with hanging chads

they might not subvert the will of the people for him

[Gothmog]

9. Who cares what Carnival Cruz thinks?

[hifiguy]

10. If he believes the shit he says

he is not well.

How in the blue hell did he ever manage to graduate from Princeton and Harvard Law?

I know little about Princeton but I am an alum of the latter. In three years there I did see one person, and only one, who was as querulously unhinged as Cruz, and I am not sure he lasted until graduation. How or why he was at HLS was a mystery to me - he once said he wanted to join the FBI and "shoot n*****s." What the hell he was doing in law school I have no idea.

Cruz is either the biggest liar since Cheney and Chimp or he is certifiably batshit insane.

[freshwest]

12. How many of our taxpayer dollars go to support this guy? Is he using the ACA to lower his rate? n/t

[Mnpaul]

13. Now is the time to reign in judicial review

Make Cruz put up or shut up. We need to put in some checks on the SC. Congress has the power to do it.

[Spacemom]

14. ideology aside

I just really can't stand his face.