First Canadian As USA President? Where Are The Birthers? Ted ‘Calgary’ Cruz Says He’s Signing Up For Obamacare

We arrived back home to Canada yesterday to hear the horrible news that one of our former citizens, Ted “Calgary” Cruz, has announced his intention to seek the Republican nomination to run for President of the United States.  The great news though, and how ironic, is that Sen. Cruz told CNN's Dana Bash on Tuesday that he will sign up for health care coverage through the Affordable Care Act -- a law he has been on a crusade to kill.

Ted Cruz:  "We'll be getting new health insurance and we'll presumably do it through my job with the Senate, and so we'll be on the federal exchange with millions of others on the federal exchange," .

How very Canadian of him!  Asked whether he would accept the government subsidy available to lawmakers and congressional staffers for their health care coverage through the ACA, Cruz said he will "follow the text of the law."  (Translation:  Yes, of course he will accept the subsidy).

Where are the Birthers?  Ted Cruz is signing up for Obamacare

Cruz's wife, Heidi, is going on an unpaid leave of up absence from her job at Goldman Sachs to join Cruz full time on the campaign trail and therefore he will no longer be covered by her employer’s health insurance plan. In another delicious bit of ironic justice it was GOP Senator Chuck Grassley who was responsible for pushing an amendment to the Affordable Care Act that requires members of Congress to receive insurance through Obamacare unless they’re able to obtain coverage from another source.  Grassley, wrongly, thought Democrats would reject this rule.

In another ironic twist that shows the blatant hypocrisy of so many right-wing wacko birds, Cruz was born not in the USA, but right here in Canada.  Calgary, Alberta to be exact. That fact is not in dispute as Sen. Cruz only recently renounced his full Canadian citizenship.  So, where are the nutbar birthers who claimed that President Obama was ineligible to run for President because they alleged he was born in Kenya?  In fact, Obama was born in Hawaii as his birth certificate proves.

Here’s the real hypocrisy.  Ted Cruz was born in Calgary, the son of an American mother and Cuban father. Even given the Tea Party fantasy that Obama was born in Kenya, then he too would have been born to an American mother (Ann  Durham born in Kansas) and a father born in a foreign country. That would have made Obama, by definition, an American. The GOP birther crazies are hypocrites because if Cruz is qualified to run there can be no argument that Barack Obama was not qualified in the same way.  Instead, most right-wingers are giving Cruz a “free pass” on the subject.

Except, of course, for the ultimate nutbar – Trump the Bozo.  Donald is openly questioning Cruz’s credentials and right to run for President because he was born in Canada.  The 2016 GOP presidential clown car is filling up fast and they will loading the fridges with bottles of seltzer water as with clowns like Cruz, Walker, Perry, Carson, Trump, Santorum, Huckabee and a few others they will be hard pressed to keep the fridge full at all times.

Ted Cruz’s chances to win the GOP nomination?  Zero!

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