Ted Cruz’s Fake Fight Against Obamacare Is Making Millions

[DonViejo]

by Patricia Murphy Sep 25, 2013 7:16 AM EDT

Ted Cruz’s war against Obamacare is a racket to raise his profile and millions of dollars. Patricia Murphy says even his Republican colleagues loathe him.

When Sen. Ted Cruz went to the Senate floor Tuesday to block a bill that would fund the federal government for the next two months, he said to the C-SPAN cameras, "We don't need fake fights. We don't need fake votes. What we need is real change."

But at that moment, Cruz was leading a fake fight over a fake vote that nearly all in Washington agree would never actually defund Obamacare the way Cruz said it would.

As for the “real change” Ted Cruz said he was looking for, that change has arrived in Washington, and the change is Ted Cruz himself. Almost single-handedly, the freshman Tea Party apostle has upended the clubby U.S. Senate, roiled the tradition-bound GOP, and revolutionized the business of power in the nation’s capital, all thanks to the health-care bill that Cruz, former senator Jim DeMint, and a small army of conservative operatives have essentially made a living out of hating.

"These guys aren't stupid. They can read the votes,” says a veteran Republican operative. “That's why Republicans are so infuriated. Folks know exactly why they're doing this. They are using this issue and misleading conservatives in order to expand their own influence and raise money for themselves."

The biggest actors so far in Defund, Inc. have been Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, and the Senate Conservatives Fund, the leadership PAC that Jim DeMint launched as a senator and handed off to his former staff members to run as a conservative super PAC. While Cruz led the defund fight in the Senate this summer, the SCF led a huge parallel fight on the outside, setting up a website, running radio and television ads, robocalls and a direct mail campaign, all designed to raise money from still-hot conservative activists and urge them to sign a petition to tell Congress not to fund the health-care bill when they greenlight funding for the rest of the government.

full article
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/25/ted-cruz-s-fake-fight-against-obamacare-is-making-millions.html

[gopiscrap]

1. yup it's all about themselves...fucking assholes.

[pinto]

2. "a racket to raise his profile and millions of dollars"

[Arkansas Granny]

3. The Republican party has been doing this for years. They have used abortion rights and gay rights

to keep their "righteous" base riled up and donating money to their candidates since the 1970's and they will continue to do so as long as they can. Cruz is just continuing a long-standing tradition.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. You got it. I've been saying for years that...

the last thing some groups would want is an end to abortion and/or gay rights because their funding would dry up. Having to find another cause would interrupt the cash flow.

[tanyev]

4. "What we need is real cha-ching."

[Sunlei]

5. a lot of free press coverage. One nutters gift to his party.