Cruz: Use debt ceiling debate for leverage

[TomCADem]

Source: CNN

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas linked raising the debt ceiling to funding the Affordable Care Act in an exclusive interview Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union” with Candy Crowley.

“The debt ceiling historically has been among the best leverage that Congress has to rein in the executive," Cruz said.

He listed three objectives as Republicans approach the debt ceiling: "No. 1, we should look for some significant structural plan and reduce government spending. No. 2, we should avoid new taxes, and No. 3, we should look for ways to mitigate the harms from Obamacare."

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Cruz said that letting Obamacare go further into effect "would destroy the private health care system." He blamed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for refusing to take up a series of piecemeal bills passed by the House to fund certain parts of the government. Democrats in the Senate and the White House say they will only pass a "clean" spending bill that does not carry restrictions or changes to the health care law.




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[QuestForSense]

1. Pure crap.

Courtesy of CNN.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

2. He said that letting Obamacare go further into effect "would destroy the private health care system.

Good. Time for that greedy bastard to die.

[JDPriestly]

3. Translate No. 2 as cut Social Security and Medicare benefits.

"No. 1, we should look for some significant structural plan and reduce government spending."

Yeah, sure. Let's raise taxes on those job creators who aren't creating jobs. Give them tax breaks for creating jobs. Otherwise tax them way back up to the Eisenhower era taxes.

Don't steal the savings of the baby boomers and their kids and younger siblings.

Repay the money that was given to the defense industry by Bush when he fought the illegal war in Iraq and the poorly thought out war in Afghanistan.

Where is the money the Bush administration lost in Iraq? Does Petraeus know? He was over there. Who else in the Bush administration knew and still knows what happened to the lost cash?

The Republicans are a bunch of thieves.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. "Obamacare...'would destroy the private health care system.'"

Obamacare IS "the private health care system" dumbass using private health care insurer exchanges. It surely isn't single-payer.

[liberal N proud]

5. Who is the speaker of the House of Representatives?

It sure as fuck isn't Boehner and Cruz is willing to destroy everything to get what he wants.

What a fucking infantile thing to do!

[Ganja Ninja]

6. Sorry Ted but you gave up your leverage when you shut down the government.

You now need Obama and the Democrat's permission to restart it. Seems to me they could just hold out for just about anything and everything and you would have to agree or take the blame for the dysfunction.

[Sunlei]

7. so Cruz is a lobbyist for the for profit, private insurnace Corps.? How much do they bribe him?

aren't politicians supposed to be elected to serve America and ALL the people FIRST?

Instead this dude speaks for profiteers and serves crap to Americans who want decent health insurance.

[cosmicone]

8. Cruz is digging and digging the hole he is in

deeper and deeper. Does he hope to come out in China?

[SoapBox]

9. Arrest this Domestic Terrorist!

This freak is out to destroy America.