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To: i-node who wrote (844931)	3/25/2015 12:45:40 AM
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Here’s where it all falls apart. If he was so intensely opposed to Obamacare and the “exemption/premium-sharing” then he and his wife have other options. 1) Sign up via Healthcare.gov as individuals rather than federal employees and forego the premium-sharing. 2) Or he and his wife could do the same thing as other members of Congress and buy insurance directly from private insurers, bypassing the exchanges. Rep. Diane Black (R-TN), among others, is doing just that. Here’s a list of providers in Texas. 3) His wife could sign up for COBRA benefits and keep the couple’s existing health insurance. 4) Or he could do what Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-FL) and Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) — returning the premium-sharing to the federal government. Why isn’t he pursuing these other routes? Because he wants the “illegal” premium-sharing offered by evil law-breaking Obama — he wants the so-called “exemption.” Frankly, it’s the smart choice and the better deal, even though it’s easily the most ironical, hypocritical choice he could make. Likewise, it’s a smart choice for those millions of Americans he was talking about — the millions of Americans whose smart insurance plans will be repealed by a would-be President Cruz. And now… I think we have seen it all.

To: i-node who wrote (844931)	3/25/2015 10:19:14 AM
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‘What have you actually accomplished?’: Megyn Kelly pushes Ted Cruz on his record Arturo Garcia ARTURO GARCIA rawstory.com 25 MAR 2015 AT 00:40 ET Fox News host Megyn Kelly challenged Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) at times on Tuesday as criticism followed his official entry into the presidential race. “On your time in the Senate — this is what some of your critics point to — they say, yes you led the fight on certain issues, but what have you actually accomplished?” Kelly asked. “What we’ve accomplished over and over again, in many instances, is stopping bad things from happening,” Cruz responded. Cruz then took credit for leading the opposition to bills he said targeted law-abiding citizens following the Sandy Hook Elementary mass shooting in 2012. “Much of Washington was consigned, [saying] ‘We can’t stop this, the train is moving, get on board,’” he told Kelly. “I did everything I could to energize and mobilize the grassroots to stand up and protect the Second Amendment. And every single proposal of Barack Obama to undermine the Second Amendment was voted down on the Senate floor.” “But when you’re the president, you have to bring together coalitions to get things through,” she said. “You can’t just be somebody who stops things. You have to be somebody who gets things through.” Cruz responded by saying that, while Democrats “basically shut the Senate down,” he had more bills pass the Senate than “all but a handful” of his fellow GOP members. Cruz’s record indicates that, out of 225 bills he has introduced, 53 have passed the Senate. However, only 5 passed in both the Senate and the House, while only 3 have been signed into law. Later, Cruz said he had proven in Texas that he could reassemble what he called “the Reagan coalition.” “We brought together conservatives and libertarians and evangelicals and women and young people and Hispanics and Reagan Democrats,” he said. “All those people are now being told that you’re ‘scary,’ ‘dangerous,’ and ‘slimy,’” Kelly replied. “This is what you’re up against.” “But they were told that in the Texas Senate race, too,” he countered. “And you know, in Texas, I won 40 percent of the Hispanic vote at the same time that Mitt Romney was getting clobbered with 27 percent of the Hispanic vote.” Cruz did not mention, however, that a poll taken by his own staff showed him gaining less support among Latino respondents than his opponent, Democrat Paul Sadler. Sadler outscored Cruz in that demographic by 20 percentage points, even though Cruz won over 56.5 percent of the overall electorate. Watch the interview, as aired by Fox News on Tuesday, below.