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Obamacare is so popular even Canadians are enrolling!
Ted Cruz Going on Obamacare
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Old Ted must have smelled something very traumatizing today. Now he's saying that his family might not enroll in Obamacare, LOL.
Story: Ted Cruz
Sean Connery and Turd Ferguson said to tell everyone to cut it out.
He better buy off exchange if he wants any chance. One of you texas wranglers should try to get his business.
Cruz may not end up on Obamacare after all - MarketWatch
But if he wants to make a point, Cruz's other options are more expensive. He can obtain coverage privately if he wants in Texas and pay for it by himself. EHealth says there are 405 plans available in Texas on the federal HealthCare.gov web site, and 579 on the eHealth site.
Cruz may not end up on Obamacare after all - MarketWatch
But if he wants to make a point, Cruz's other options are more expensive. He can obtain coverage privately if he wants in Texas and pay for it by himself. EHealth says there are 405 plans available in Texas on the federal HealthCare.gov web site, and 579 on the eHealth site.
Its not going to be any cheaper off ex compared to Goldmans COBRA. Our rates are some of the highest of the 50.
Plus you know Goldman has stellar benefits. Why the heck would he give that up?
If he does go off ex, I hope his broker makes sure he gets a nationwide PPO. I have a feeling he'll be doing some traveling.
We need a woman to go against Hillary. Someone with integrity, brains and no skeletons! ANN or KGMom or Condy?
I'll take Condi for 1600 please Alex. As in, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
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This op-ed piece pretty much sums it up. Cruz is a "political-televangelist"
The Too-Smooth Cruz - WSJ
I cut to the chase for you.
Mr. Cruz here is not like Reagan. He's like a first-term senator named Barack Obama, 45 when he announced.
This prompts a major 2016 question: Did Mr. Obama permanently lower the bar? Did his winning and holding the presidency with such limited experience, and his governing in many eyes so unsuccessfully, leave a whole generation of politicians thinking "I can do that!" and "Even I can do better than that!" Or, after Mr. Obama, will there be among Republicans voters a hunger for deeper biography? Is the country in the mood for more on-the-job presidential training?
Mr. Cruz's second problem has to do with words like sincerity, earnestness, ingenuousness. His conservatism is serious—fully thought through, studied, internalized. But who is he? I think of the comment of one of his fellow conservative senators: "He's a complete charlatan, you know." He did the shutdown, said that senator, not because it might work or help but because it served his breakout plan: be the guy who convinces the base he's the only one they can trust. The senator's implication: It's a game to this guy.
It is not hard to notice that every Cruz conversation, every interview, seems to be the rote performance of a speech. In public, and often in private, he moves his hands and face and modulates his voice like a TV pro. Politicians have to be actors, but the trick is to be an actor without being a phony.
Slickness is not a virtue in a politician, and obvious oiliness is a drawback. Mr. Cruz needs some awkward lessons. Maybe he can call Rick Perry.
The Too-Smooth Cruz - WSJ
I cut to the chase for you.
Mr. Cruz here is not like Reagan. He's like a first-term senator named Barack Obama, 45 when he announced.
This prompts a major 2016 question: Did Mr. Obama permanently lower the bar? Did his winning and holding the presidency with such limited experience, and his governing in many eyes so unsuccessfully, leave a whole generation of politicians thinking "I can do that!" and "Even I can do better than that!" Or, after Mr. Obama, will there be among Republicans voters a hunger for deeper biography? Is the country in the mood for more on-the-job presidential training?
Mr. Cruz's second problem has to do with words like sincerity, earnestness, ingenuousness. His conservatism is serious—fully thought through, studied, internalized. But who is he? I think of the comment of one of his fellow conservative senators: "He's a complete charlatan, you know." He did the shutdown, said that senator, not because it might work or help but because it served his breakout plan: be the guy who convinces the base he's the only one they can trust. The senator's implication: It's a game to this guy.
It is not hard to notice that every Cruz conversation, every interview, seems to be the rote performance of a speech. In public, and often in private, he moves his hands and face and modulates his voice like a TV pro. Politicians have to be actors, but the trick is to be an actor without being a phony.
Slickness is not a virtue in a politician, and obvious oiliness is a drawback. Mr. Cruz needs some awkward lessons. Maybe he can call Rick Perry.
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When was the last time a candidate who was well known before the actual primaries won? Bush, and before Bush, Bush? And even W. was pretty obscure until the primaries. I seem to recall McCain and others being bigger names leading up the primaries.
I'd take a page from the Democrats. Clinton and Obama were unknowns until the primaries actually got under way and they did well in a few states. Anyone announcing right now is just signing up for an extra year of body blows to their reputation and character.
Unless all this is just a publicity tour before the speaking tour after the election, I'd bide my time and wait until the end of the year or even next year before announcing.
I'd take a page from the Democrats. Clinton and Obama were unknowns until the primaries actually got under way and they did well in a few states. Anyone announcing right now is just signing up for an extra year of body blows to their reputation and character.
Unless all this is just a publicity tour before the speaking tour after the election, I'd bide my time and wait until the end of the year or even next year before announcing.
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