Democracy Gone Astray

Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.

All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.

[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Ted Cruz 'Not Convinced' Obama Wouldn't Defund Obamacare

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Sunday that he is "not convinced" that President Barack Obama wouldn't defund his own signature health care law if Congress gave him the opportunity to do so.

"I am not at all convinced of that," Cruz told Candy Crowley in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union."

Cruz and other Senate Republicans are pursuing what's known as a "continuing resolution" that would defund the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, as a condition of funding the government. Cruz, in particular, has been leading the charge, doing town halls on the subject and being featured in "Defund Obamacare" television ads.

Of course, the president is not expected to sign a bill that would eliminate or gut his landmark legislative achievement. It's highly unlikely any such bill would even make it to his desk, since Democrats still control the Senate. But that hasn't stopped the House GOP from voting 40 times to repeal the law.

"The president is never going to sign the bill that defunds Obamacare," Crowley told Cruz in the interview.

"You know, you may be convinced of that," Cruz said.

"You're not convinced of that? This is what they consider his signature achievement of his administration so far," Crowley responded.

Cruz conceded that the movement in the Senate to defund Obamacare doesn't yet have the votes needed for the continuing resolution.

"We don't have the votes right now," Cruz said. "This fight is likely to heat up in the month of September."

Original Article
Source: huffingtonpost.com/
Author: Dave Jamieson 

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