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To: locogringo who wrote (844509)	3/23/2015 10:38:05 PM
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Confronted With Obamacare Success, Creator Of Death Panels Lie Walks Out Of Interview – VIDEO samuel-warde.com Today marks the 5th anniversary of Obamacare and what better way to celebrate than to laugh at this conservative nitwit losing her shit after being confronted with the overwhelming success of the Affordable Care Act -

To: locogringo who wrote (844509)	3/23/2015 10:39:34 PM
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With thousands of new jobs and dozens of startup companies - Obamacare's success as a job creator is unprecedented for the industry. For the last several years, the tea potty Regressives have been crying gloom and doom over the Affordable Care Act. As House Speaker Boehner (aka Sir John of Orange) put it, “the president’s job-killing health-care law.” Sorry John, but as in most things, you are WRONG! And, business knows it! According to Bloomberg, there are more than 90 brand new health-care companies with 6,200 jobs created because of ACA. As Parker Conrad, CEO of Zenefits, the largest of the start-ups, put it, “There’s a lot of opportunity for new market entrants. The ground is literally shifting under the feet of the incumbents.” Bare in mind, that’s 6,200 just in the new start-ups. That doesn’t count the expansion of already existing companies to meet the increased demand now that more people are insured. The Managing Director of PricewaterhouseCoopers’s Health Research Institute, Ceci Connolly stated, “In the five years prior to the law you don’t get anywhere close to as many startups in the health-care industry. There really is a stark difference. We thought it was striking how many entrepreneurs said to us, ‘This has sparked innovation and entrepreneurship.’” Bankrate.com cites the increased need for lawyers. As Craig B. Garner, a lawyer and health care consultant put it, “The increased demand has two driving factors. First, the ACA is complicated and long (and) few people really want to read it. Second, there is an abundance of incorrect information freely disseminated (about the law).” (Gee, I wonder who’s been freely disseminating an abundance of incorrect information.)

To: locogringo who wrote (844509)	3/23/2015 10:40:55 PM
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Thanks To Obamacare, Hospitals Saved More Than $7 Billion Last Year thinkprogress.org

To: locogringo who wrote (844509)	3/23/2015 10:43:36 PM
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Tea Party ‘Patriots’ Weigh In On Ted Cruz’s 2016 POTUS Announcement samuel-warde.com

To: locogringo who wrote (844509)	3/23/2015 10:44:48 PM
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poor Rafael “Ted” Cruz. The Canadian born senator from Texas doesn’t seem to realize that there is a whole wide world of thinking people who exist outside the right wing bubble, and who aren’t buying what he and his Tea Party brethren are selling. On March 10, Cruz took his dog and pony show to the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) convention. David Weigel reports at Bloomberg Politics that firefighters’ unions do not support Democrats as solidly as some unions do, so perhaps Cruz thought he might find the group of first responders to be receptive to some of his positions. Or, maybe he thought his reception would be so hostile that he could use it as evidence that unions are filled with crazed, left wing “thugs.” You can never be quite sure of what is going through this man’s head. Whatever he was thinking going in, he was almost certainly not prepared for what he got. Cruz went onto the stage with the standard applause lines, the ones that get him raucous cheers inside the GOP bubble, ready to go. He attacks the IRS, goes after border security, and, of course he calls for the repeal of Obamacare. Each of those lines earned Cruz huge cheers when he appeared on stage at CPAC with Sean Hannity. But what happened when he delivered them to the firefighters, complete with planned pauses for the same sort of fawning admiration he received from the CPAC crowd? Silence. Not one bit of applause. No boos. Just silence. A complete, uncomfortable, silence. In fact, the room was filled with a stony silence throughout Cruz’s nearly 30 minute address. You can see the entire speech on YouTube.

To: locogringo who wrote (844509)	3/23/2015 10:48:42 PM
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Ted Cruz has made it official. He's running for president. So let's take a look back through some of the man's statements. Spoiler alert: they're dumb. reverbpress.com 5 Times When Ted Cruz Said Something Stupid Ted Cruz has made it official. He’s running for president. My colleague, Curtis Fease, has made the case that a Cruz candidacy is a progressive’s dream – should he somehow win the nomination, his extremism will virtually guarantee a Democratic victory. But let’s take a closer look at the man. In his years in the public eye, Ted Cruz has made a habit of making statements of breathtaking inanity. So, for your reading pleasure, here are some of Ted Cruz’s greatest hits. With the Senate shifting to Republican control, someone had the bright idea that Ted Cruz should chair the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Space, and Competitiveness which, among other things, oversees NASA. This has been going about as well as one might expect, what with Cruz using his position to pontificate that NASA was spending far too much time studying Earth, and far too little time exploring space. Studying our own planet, according to Cruz, is unnecessary, because everything on Earth is going justfine. No need to worry about climate change or any of that nonsense. Here’s his “thoughts” on climate change: Climate change, as they have defined it, can never be disproved, because whether it gets hotter or whether it gets colder, whatever happens, they’ll say, well, it’s changing, so it proves our theory. When it comes to foreign policy, Ted Cruz appears to have slept through class. He has a plan to defeat ISIS, which involves, uh, Mexico: First and foremost, Washington should resolve to make border security a top priority finally, rather than an afterthought, of this plan in light of concerns about potential ISIS activities on our southern border, cited in a Texas Department of Public Safety bulletin reported by Fox News. As long as our border isn’t secure, the government is making it far too easy for terrorists to infiltrate our nation. Or consider this gem, comparing net neutrality to the Affordable Care Act in a fashion that makes it glaringly obvious that Ted Cruz understands neither: And, speaking of things that Ted Cruz doesn’t understand, add the distinction between federal law and voluntarily adopted standards to the list: The problem with the above is, of course, that Common Core is not federal law, making the process of repealing it a bit tricky. And then there was that time when Ted Cruz seemed to be of the opinion that President Obama was planning to kidnap him: So this afternoon President Obama has invited the Senate Republicans to the White House. So after leaving here, I’m going to be going to the White House. I will make a request. if I’m never seen again, please send a search and rescue team. I very much hope by tomorrow morning I don’t wake up amidst the Syrian rebels. I almost feel sorry for the man, who has somehow been elected to public office despite, by all available evidence, having a noticeable dearth of functioning brain cells. Or perhaps that’s incorrect. Perhaps Ted Cruz is a very smart man who says very dumb things because he knows that is what it will take to win over the Republican electorate. I don’t know which alternative is worse. Either way, his words offer sufficient evidence that Ted Cruz should be neither president nor senator nor a dogcatcher in Roswell, NM. Ted Cruz is qualified for nothing more than a long stay in a small, quiet room, bereft of sharp objects and with amply padded walls.