We cats are glad that we're not the only ones who have noticed that the right-right-right-wing junior Senator from Texas with the reedy voice is an Obamacare beneficiary.
That's because Rafael Cruz now will get his family's medical insurance through the Affordable Care Act — because his wife has taken a leave of absence from her job-with-benefits at Goldman Sachs to work on Cruz's laughable Presidential campaign.
Hmmm, Goldman Sachs. We bet that Heidi Cruz was making a lot of money there. So why can't the Cruzes buy health insurance on their own? Surely they could afford it. And they look pretty healthy (although of course, Obamacare, which Cruz has pledged to wipe out, prevents insurers from disqualifying people with pre-existing conditions).
But no, Cruz chose instead to make himself vulnerable to questions from reporters who want to know why he went through the ACA and if he'll be taking the subsidy that the government provides members of Congress. That's where things got really cognitively dissonant. "We will follow the text of the law," Cruz said. "I strongly oppose the exemption that President Obama illegally put in place for members of Congress...I believe we should follow the text of the law."
What does that even mean? First, that Rafael Cruz is the only Canadian we know who is a liar, a hypocrite and a fool. Second, that in honor of the fifth anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, every Republican Presidential wannabe and pretender for 2016 should be asked why one of their party's teabag "stars" wants to repeal his own health insurance. And then we'll just sit back and watch the fun. We cats PURR.
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