Cruz-ing strategy: Texas senator attacking Obamacare with an eye on 2016?

[unhappycamper]

Cruz-ing strategy: Texas senator attacking Obamacare with an eye on 2016?
By Maria Recio | McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz is smack in the middle of the No. 1 political story in the country, has energized his party’s conservative base and has become the most visible 2016 Republican presidential wannabe in an early – and crowded – field.

Politicians live for these kinds of moments.

A senator for not yet even a year, the Texas Republican is at the epicenter of the faceoff between his party and the Democrats that may well lead to a government shutdown Oct. 1.

Elected in November in his first bid for office, he started an unlikely crusade this summer to force House of Representatives Republicans to defund the Affordable Care Act – Obamacare – which they did last week.



unhappycamper comment: If Teddy is going to make it into the 2016 National Election, he better get busy changing the US Constitution:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Two_of_the_United_States_Constitution

Article Two Clause Five says:

Clause 5: Qualifications for office

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.


By the time of their inauguration, the President and Vice President must be:

natural born citizens (including naturalization passed from parents)
at least thirty-five years old
inhabitants of the United States for at least fourteen years.

Eligibility for holding the office of President and Vice-President were modified by subsequent amendments:

The Twelfth Amendment (1804) requires the Vice-President must meet all of the qualifications of being a President.
The Twenty-second Amendment (1951) prevents a President from being elected more than twice.

[gopiscrap]

1. Of course he is the mark of a teabagger is

that they care only for themselves!

[Horse with no Name]

2. from the day he came on the stage

seeking POTUS was his goal.

I bet he isn't as batshit crazy as he pretends to be...but he is playing to a gullible audience and they slurp every drop of crazy he oozes.

[Agnosticsherbet]

3. The Congressional Research Services has determined that Cruz is natural born.

(Warning PDF)

Qualifications for President and the “Natural Born” Citizenship Eligibility Requirement
"The weight of legal and historical authority indicates that the term "natural born" citizen would mean a person who is entitled to U.S. citizenship "by birth" or "at birth," either by being born "in" the United States and under its jurisdiction, even those born to alien parents; by being born abroad to U.S. citizen-parents; or by being born in other situations meeting legal requirements for U.S. citizenship "at birth."

Actually, they did this back in 2011. So if he should win the nomination by Republicans, no one will blink an eye.

The bigger questions is his dual citizenship in Canada, and he has moved to fix that problem. Ted Cruz, Tea Party favourite, to renounce Canadian citizenship

I suspect that anyone with power and the backing of a party will be able to run for president, but there is a strong cynical streak in my DNA.

[stevenleser]

4. No question that this is about 2016 and playing the wingnut wing of the GOP

to get himself the nomination. And it is brilliant insomuch as that is concerned.

[geek tragedy]

5. Future governor of Texas. nt

[Thinkingabout]

6. OMG, please, we have had years of terrible governors, it is time for a break. I hope this is not

In our future to have Cruz to elected to any office would not be good, we want to turn blue.

[geek tragedy]

7. Perry won every election by more than double-digits. nt

[Thinkingabout]

9. It did not make him a good governor.

[geek tragedy]

10. No, it means there are a lot of bad voters.

Cruz is smarter and more ruthless than Perry.

[msanthrope]

8. Please. One can only hope so. nt

[pinboy3niner]

11. He's going to throw his hat in the ring...

[Puglover]

12. It is difficult to believe that

even this gargantuan douche nozzle could be so self deluded that he thinks it would be nothing but a colossal waste of time to go for the presidency.

[randome]

13. You attach too much significance to the word 'thinks', IMO.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]

[Puglover]

14. True