Ted Cruz Won The Iowa Caucuses. Here’s What He Wants To Do To America.
February 4, 2016by terrance
Ted Cruz Won The Iowa Caucuses. Here’s What He Wants To Do To America.
From the moment he launched his presidential bid, conventional wisdom said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) wouldn’t even get close to becoming president. This week Cruz won the Iowa Caucuses, and got a little closer to the White House. Here’s why that should scare you.
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Cruz’s win surprised a lot of people, especially (former?) frontrunner Donald Trump. It’s tempting to breathe a sigh of relief, and count Cruz’s win as the beginning of the end of Trump’s candidacy. But let’s not kid ourselves. Cruz is every bit as bad as Trump — if not worse. Let’s take a moment to remember what Ted Cruz wants to do to America.
What does Cruz have in mind over 16 million Americans who would lose their coverage? Cruz’s health care plan is basically the same conservative ideas that we already know won’t work.
Cruz wants to allow people to buy credit insurance across state lines, giving insurers a “Get Out of Regulations Free” card, and starting a race to the bottom. Cruz wants to expand health savings accounts that favor the well and the wealthy, leaving those who can’t afford to save much, can’t use tax breaks, and have huge medical bills no better off.
A Republican Congress would almost certainly repeal “every single word” of the Affordable Care Act, and “President Cruz” would absolutely sign it.
Climate Change
Cruz wears his climate change denialism as a badge of honor. He told late night host Seth Meyers that the earth is not getting warmer.
I will embrace an energy policy that utilizes the bountiful resources in this land – from oil to natural gas to ethanol – producing abundant and affordable gas and electricity resources. We are on the verge of an American energy renaissance, and I will lift the regulations that are prohibiting exploration, the Keystone pipeline, and job creation.
As president, Cruz would revert back to the “cowboy” foreign policy of the most recent Bush administration. Following the terrorist attacks in Paris, Cruz practically called for a nuclear apocalypse at the Rising Tide Summit in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “We will carpet bomb [ISIS] into oblivion,” Cruz said. “I don’t know if sand can glow in the dark, but we’re going to find out.” Cruz’s poll numbers rose immediately after his remarks. Not only would “carpet bombing” and “saturation bombing” regions in Iraq and Syria that are controlled by ISIS be a war crime, but Cruz doesn’t seem to know what either term actually means.
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Cruz told the audience at the Value Voters Summit in Washington, DC, “If you vote for me, under no circumstances will Iran be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. And if the ayatollah doesn’t understand that, we may have to help introduce him to his 72 virgins.” Things like Cruz’s threat to kill Iran’s Ayatollah set back efforts to find a way of halting Iran’s nuclear enrichment program without launching another, costly, deadly war in the the Middle East.
Immigration
Despite being the son of a Cuban immigrant, Cruz talks continuously about the need to secure the border, and put an end to sanctuary cities. Though he once said it was a “mistake,” Ted Cruz has said that he “absolutely” supports ending automatic citizenship for children born on US soil. He opposes a path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the US. He also opposes the US accepting any Syrian Muslim refugees, and says he understands Donald Trumps desire to bar all Muslims (citizens abroad included) from entering the United States.
LGBT Equality
Cruz is an old school “culture warrior,” who courts religious conservatives the old fashioned way: with homophobic fear-mongering and opposition to LGBT equality.
Even before the Supreme Court heard arguments on marriage equality, Cruz filed two bills to protect states that barred same-sex couples from marrying: one establishing a constitutional amendment shielding states that banned same-sex marriage from legal action, and another barring federal courts from ruling on the issue until the amendment passed.
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When the backlash against anti-gay “religious freedom” laws sent states like Indiana, Georgia, and Arkansas scrambling to rewrite their bills to make them seem less bigoted, Cruz blamed Fortune 500 companies for “shamelessly” pushing the “radical gay agenda,” by refusing to do business in states where their employees might face legalized discrimination.