Ted Cruz: ‘Why is President Obama threatening to shut down the federal government?’

[Galraedia]

Source: Raw Story

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Tuesday argued that President Barack Obama and Democrats, not Republicans, were the ones trying to shut down the federal government because he insisted on funding a health care reform law that was passed in 2010.

Last week, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) called on Republicans to refuse to vote on a continuing resolution to fund the government if included any funding for Obamacare. Cruz said that the government should be shut down unless the Affordable Care Act was “fully” defunded.

“Under no circumstances will I support a continuing resolution that funds even one penny of Obamacare,” Cruz told The Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. “In order to win this fight, we need to get 41 Republicans in the Senate to make the same commitment or we need 218 Republicans in the House.”

“The next step will be that President Obama and [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid will scream and yell, ‘Why are those mean and nasty Republicans threatening to shut down the government over Obamacare?’” he continued. “And at that point, we’ve actually got to stand up and fight.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/30/ted-cruz-why-is-president-obama-threatening-to-shut-down-the-federal-government/

[onehandle]

1. Onehandle: 'Why is a Canadian telling our President what to do?' nt

[Berlum]

7. Because he is yet another freaking Republicon Chickenhawk

Republicons luv them their chickenhawk cabal...and think they are "special"

[ForgoTheConsequence]

2. He said he was going to do this.

I saw an interview with this loser on CNN yesterday and he laid the plan out.

[frazzled]

3. Ted, why do you beat your wife?

Good lord, these buffoons need to be banished from the court. Honestly, it's this kind of clownishness that makes people give up on politics and government entirely--even people like me. Maybe that's what the Cruzes of Congress want: drive people nuts with their craziness until they all walk away in disgust, and then they can do whatever they want with impunity.

[Turbineguy]

10. She makes him.

That's how it works. The victim leaves the criminal no choice.

[Andy823]

4. I wonder

Are the people who voted for him, and all the other republicans really so damned stupid they actually believe him when he says BS like this? Cruz is a complete idiot, a moron who is playing to his moron base, and anyone who believes him must also be a moron!

This just goes to prove how stupid the GOP thinks people are.

[DhhD]

35. There are people in Texas that voted for Ted Cruz. And even though they are getting a refund

from their insurance company due to over paying their premiums, believe that it is alright for the insurance CEO to make a multi-million dollar salary and a multi-million dollar bonus. What do you think their response is to a request that they sign over their refund and send it to the CEO? I my opinion only someone with an unreasonable intelligence would do such a thing and think it is alright to destroy the interest of their family. And it goes to show that such a thinker would elect lawmakers that would allow the Insurance Board of Texas to conduct business like this. In my opinion, these are the type of people that appeal to the Ted Cruz organization.

If Texas did not have the oil and natural gas industry many more of the population would be in the lower classes socioeconomically. If all of us would only go and vote! GOP Texas new primary candidate wants to make sure that not everyone can vote. One of them is Gregg Abbott, running for governor.

http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/Hours-after-SCOTUS-ruling-Texas-declares-voter-ID-law-effective-immediately-212993711.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/25/eric-holder-texas-voting-law_n_3652367.html

[awoke_in_2003]

39. Yes, they are. nt

[pangaia]

41. They ARE stupid, and the GOP knows it because they are just as stupid.

[Botany]

5. Under no circumstances will I support a continuing resolution that funds even one penny of Obamacare

Asshole it passed the House and the Senate, it was signed by the POTUS, it was upheld by the
SCOTUS, and it is the law of the land.

[demwing]

46. AND, America voted to return Obama to offce

Obamacare is the will of the people.

[JoePhilly]

6. Hey Ted, take a deep breath ... hold it ... hold it ... hold it.

Angry toddler.

[Just Saying]

26. Ahahaha

That's awesome because it's true!

[SCVDem]

8. Will anyone come out

And call these a holes LIARS to their face?

Put up or shut up!

I would love to see Obama walk out into any one of these bullshit pressers and call them out!

That would be a spine!

[JohnnyRingo]

9. While the other side of his mouth is saying...

"Obama is an out of control big government liberal".

This is the first shot in the GOP war on the truth about the looming govt shutdown. They in the past have blamed Obama for causing racial division by getting elected, for causing the country's downgraded credit rating, and they blamed him on Fox News for the 2008 TARP bailout of the banks.

Half the people in the country will buy this because of the huge megaphone at Rupert Murdoch's network. People only hear what they want to believe.

[chuckstevens]

11. Why is Ted Cruz One of the Biggest Idiots Ever Elected to the US Senate?

Because he's from Texas!

[cvoogt]

12. why are you hitting yourself?

Stop hitting yourself... Same thing.

[Mc Mike]

33. +1000. Thanks, cv. no text.

[Arkana]

13. Dear Ted:

HE'S NOT. YOU FUCKERS ARE THE ONES THREATENING A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN.

[Kablooie]

14. Pay me the ransom or I'll shoot your wife!

No, I won't pay.

Everybody look! He's killing his wife!

[Jack Rabbit]

15. Why am I not surprised that the Tea Baggers are trying to frame the debate this way?

It's dishonest, irresponsible and an attempt to avoid any responsibility for their actions. The Tea Baggers have established a long history of behaving that way, even when they were called the John Birch Society and were fighting against the fluoridation of drinking water.

That's why.

[Volaris]

23. ahahah see, at this point,

If I were a Dem Congressmann, I would put a bill on the floor that repeals the ACA in it's entierety, and then REPLACES it with a govt, not-fot-profit corporation who's only purpose is the expansion of Medicare to anyone who WANTS to sign up for it, and the delivery of services paid for by the premiums those people who choose to OPTIONALLY sign up for the program pay in.

Any Democrat with any spine would ABSOUTELY force them to put up or shut up when it comes to repeal and replace. I would DARE them to show the public how much they really truly HATEHATEHATE Obamacare, and what they are willing to swallow to get rid of it lol.

But I would do these things because I'm a Dick, and I'm pretty serious about it.

[Cha]

16. Why is ted cruz such a fucking sociopathic moron?

[Texano78704]

17. Ted Cruz: consummate actor

Ted is no idiot. He's a graduate of Princeton and Harvard. He clerked for the Chief Justice of the United States.

He is also an ideologue who is happy the play the role of the teabagger senator from Texas. Don't deride the stupid things he says and does, revile him for what he represents in our government. I know I do.

[They_Live]

29. Well put

I agree with all you said and , hey that's zip code too!

[leftynyc]

45. He's not stupid

He just thinks the rest of us are and we'll buy this ridiculous argument. Perhaps his constituents are really that stupid.

[Thav]

47. Not thinks the rest of us are

WANTS the rest of us to be stupid. Stupid people are easier to manipulate.

[pampango]

18. Krugman's insight:

Greg Sargent finds Marco Rubio trying to redefine the nature of budget blackmail, declaring that it’s not about Republicans threatening to shut down the government unless Obama defunds heath reform; it’s about Obama threatening to shut down the government unless he gets to implement the law. No, really. Rubio:

I think the real question is: Is Barack Obama willing to shut down the government over ObamaCare? In essence, I think we should pay our military. I think we should fund the government. I just don’t think we should fund ObamaCare. And what the President is saying is we either fund ObamaCare or we don’t fund anything. And I think that’s an unreasonable position. And that’s the position he’s taken and the Democrats have taken.

So, where have I heard that before? In Lincoln’s Cooper Union address, in which he talks of slave interests declaring that they will break up the Union if Northerners vote in a Republican, which will make secession the fault of … anti-slavery forces:

That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, “Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!”

[old guy]

19. He is an attention whore.

He loses nothing by making these statements. His teabagger followers rejoice and the media keeps on publishing his crap as news, as if it is important. He doesn't fear a voter backlash for some reason or he wouldn't act like this. I don't think he really believes what he says, but he knows it gets him headlines and even bad publicity is still publicity.

[paleotn]

20. What?!

...of course the POTUS insists on funding the Affordable Care Act. It's the freaking law of the land, you idiots! The only way for it to be LEGALLY defunded is through repeal. So, in essence, Cruz, Rubio and the rest of the mad teabaggers are advocating the open violation of federal law, because they can't manage to get enough votes in the Senate, much less have the President sign repeal legislation. Typical Rethuglicans. Wasting everyone else's time because they want to act like first rate, assholes.

[demwing]

49. "they want to act like first rate assholes"

more like first grade assholes.

[Skittles]

21. so sayeth Carnival Cruz

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[City Lights]

22. A giant "fuck you" to Mr. Cruz. nt

[Blue Owl]

24. The answer may surprise you, Ted.

n/t

[BrainMann1]

25. I think I'll cruz be this one

Get it cruse

[Politicalboi]

27. They get away with it because

They know their people are stupid and will believe ANYTHING they say. Just like the Obama "You didn't build your own business" shit flew.

[muntrv]

28. No Ted, Congress has the power to shut down the govt, not the POTUS!

[Lugal Zaggesi]

30. Under no circumstances will I support a continuing

purchase of spinach or broccoli in this house.
[center]


"Because if you can make people do things,
that means you are in control."[/center]

[sakabatou]

31. *vein pop*

WTF?!

[wordpix]

32. in psychiatry, what Cruz is doing is called transference

The cons do try to shut down the gov't and then blame O as usual.

[meow2u3]

34. What Cruz is doing is projection, not transference

He's falsely accusing Obama of what he's doing: conspiring with the rest of the teabaggers to overthrow the government.

[DCBob]

36. The RW cons love this stuff.

Dont be surprised to see this guy more and more in the spotlight as the new conservative leader.

[jzodda]

37. Ted Cruz is the gift that keeps on giving!

Please Cruz keep talking!

[beerandjesus]

38. Why does Obama keep voting to repeal ObamaCare?

Why does Obama keep voting to de-fund ACORN?

Why is Obama filibustering sending the budget to the conference committee?

Why is Obama passing new anti-abortion measures in red states?


(Just helping Mr. Cruz out a bit.)

[Scurrilous]

40. Dumbf@ck. n/t

[area51]

42. Dear dumbfuck Ted

GingrichCare is an invention of the Heritage Foundation and Newt Gingrich; they wanted people to be forced to buy lightly regulated insurance sold by for-profit, serial-killer insurance companies, with punishment if you don't buy it, and no govt. option. You should LOVE GingrichCare.

[nxylas]

43. "Now look what you made me do"

The cri de coeur of bullies and abusers everywhere.

[Ash_F]

44. Damn he's good.

At keeping a straight face.

[Beacool]

48. I have a better question: Why is Ted Cruz in Congress?

What kind of idiots vote for these people? That includes poodle head (Paul), loony toons Gohmert, Rubio, etc. You know that these people are nuts when there's a fight between Christie and Paul, and Christie sounds like the moderate one.