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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Friday repeated the misguided conservative talking point that the birth control coverage rule included in Obamacare forces employers to cover abortion-inducing pills.
Cruz told the crowd at the 2013 Values Voter Summit that the Obama administration is forcing Christian-owned businesses like Hobby Lobby to provide "abortifacients" or pay millions of dollars in fees. Hobby Lobby is one of several religious-owned businesses currently suing the administration over its requirement that most employers include contraception coverage in their health insurance plans.
The Affordable Care Act requires most employers to cover birth control, including emergency contraception -- also known as the morning-after pill or Plan B -- in their health insurance plans. But employers are not required to cover RU-486, an abortion-inducing medication that is sometimes confused with emergency contraception.
Maybe because they see the benefit as theirs before it is yours.
Just like your paycheck. Its their money, they just have to give it to you by law.
Just like my labor was mine before I was required to give it to them in exchange for that paycheck.
If they have the right to tell me where I need to spend my paycheck because it was their money before mine, then I have the right to tell them where/what I will do for the day because it was my labor before it was theirs.
So, Cruz is a crazier Rick Santorum. No surprises here.
Republicans are no longer just cribbing their political ideology from fundamentalist Christianity. Increasingly, conservative politicians are abandoning the basic task of representing the interests of their voters and instead are exploiting their voters in the same way televangelists and other fundamentalist charlatans exploit the true believers that come to them looking for spiritual salvation.
Ted Cruz is the most prominent example, at least in the past month. After the shutdown debacle, it became clear that Cruz has no interest in using his position as a Texas senator to work on behalf of the voters who got him there. Instead, his M.O. is pure sleazy televangelist: Lots of public grandstanding to convince his marks, previously known as constituents, that he’s on their side, for the sole purpose of shaking them down for money and support without offering anything in return.
A sleazy televangelist--that describes Cruz to a T. No interest in doing the hard work of true governing, only interested in shaking down the gullible for as much as he can. He knows exactly the right buttons to push--like the horror!!! of contraceptives being covered by healthcare--to get the Tea Party fools to send him their Social Security checks. I'll give him this, he certainly excels as a flim-flam man.
Republicans are no longer just cribbing their political ideology from fundamentalist Christianity. Increasingly, conservative politicians are abandoning the basic task of representing the interests of their voters and instead are exploiting their voters in the same way televangelists and other fundamentalist charlatans exploit the true believers that come to them looking for spiritual salvation.
Ted Cruz is the most prominent example, at least in the past month. After the shutdown debacle, it became clear that Cruz has no interest in using his position as a Texas senator to work on behalf of the voters who got him there. Instead, his M.O. is pure sleazy televangelist: Lots of public grandstanding to convince his marks, previously known as constituents, that he’s on their side, for the sole purpose of shaking them down for money and support without offering anything in return.
A sleazy televangelist--that describes Cruz to a T. No interest in doing the hard work of true governing, only interested in shaking down the gullible for as much as he can. He knows exactly the right buttons to push--like the horror!!! of contraceptives being covered by healthcare--to get the Tea Party fools to send him their Social Security checks. I'll give him this, he certainly excels as a flim-flam man.
The proof will be in the pudding. Lets see how long it takes him to release his first book, or prayer cloth...which ever comes first.
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