Ted Cruz’s Fake Fight Against Obamacare Is Making Millions

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/25/ted-cruz-s-fake-fight-against-obamacare-is-making-millions.html

Ted Cruz’s Fake Fight Against Obamacare Is Making Millions
by Patricia Murphy | Sep 25, 2013 7:16 AM EDT

When Sen. Ted Cruz went to the Senate floor Tuesday to block a bill that would fund the federal government for the next two months, he said to the C-SPAN cameras, "We don't need fake fights. We don't need fake votes. What we need is real change."

But at that moment, Cruz was leading a fake fight over a fake vote that nearly all in Washington agree would never actually defund Obamacare the way Cruz said it would.

As for the “real change” Ted Cruz said he was looking for, that change has arrived in Washington, and the change is Ted Cruz himself. Almost single-handedly, the freshman Tea Party apostle has upended the clubby U.S. Senate, roiled the tradition-bound GOP, and revolutionized the business of power in the nation’s capital, all thanks to the health-care bill that Cruz, former senator Jim DeMint, and a small army of conservative operatives have essentially made a living out of hating.

"These guys aren't stupid. They can read the votes,” says a veteran Republican operative. “That's why Republicans are so infuriated. Folks know exactly why they're doing this. They are using this issue and misleading conservatives in order to expand their own influence and raise money for themselves."

[onehandle]

1. Palin Money Making Machine, redux. nt

[krispos42]

2. I think he knows it will pass, and he'll always have something to crusade against.

The lengths these people will go to to make average people destitute is astounding.

[warrior1]

3. I read another article

that he was losing millions

[jeff47]

9. He's making millions of the rubes

He's losing tens of millions from the big donors he'll need for his run for president in 2016.

[UTUSN]

4. Making millions or LOSING millions?!1 There's another article out there saying

that Rethug big donors are disgusted with him and will be shoveling their moohlah elsewhere.

[GeorgeGist]

5. The big donors roll the 99% ...

Every dollar they spend.

[pinboy3niner]

6. They say Cruz may throw his hat in the ring for 2016...

[UTUSN]

7. Make it SO!1 I didn't think anybody could out-clown PALIN, but he's been a natural (target)

from the get-go (Nick ANDERSON cartoon, below). And doesn't he have ANY reference to standards of Beauty to think he is so self-satisfyingly CREEPY looking (O.P.)!1

[oldandhappy]

8. Nmae recognition and money

Unfortunately there are people who believe him!

[Stainless]

10. The Most Narcissistic Politician In America!

I'm not a therapist, but I think he suffers from a borderline personality disorder. What is wrong with Texas?