Cruz turned out to be prescient even under Trump, with Republican majorities in the House and Senate, health care advocates foiled the GOP’s ACA repeal. If the ACA went into effect, he predicted, Americans would become “addicted to the sugar” (could he be more condescending?)-and the GOP would be unable to roll it back. Trying to block enactment of Affordable Care Act subsidies in 2013, Cruz made his case this way: “President Obama wants to get as many Americans addicted to the subsidies because he knows that in modern times, no major entitlement has ever been implemented and then unwound,” he said. Follow Fair Fight to get the latest.Ĭruz has told the political truth at least once before. But time is running out, and every time advocates sigh with a little relief, the Georgia GOP renews its efforts. Having gotten several hateful provisions removed from the final round of legislation, advocates are hopeful they can do more, especially by getting Georgia’s business sector-Coca-Cola, Home Depot, and Delta are all headquartered there-to oppose the new laws. Is there any room for compromise with Democrats, someone asked Cruz on the ALEC call. That’s why GOP lawmakers have proposed, according to the Brennan Center, 250 voter-restriction bills in 43 states since Trump’s defeat. He was talking about HR 1, one of the voting rights bills passed by House Democrats, and of course he started with some lies, insisting it would give voting rights to “illegal aliens” and “child molesters,” and that it “says America would be better off if more murderers were voting, America would be better off if more rapists and child molesters were voting.” Needless to say, it says none of those things.īut Cruz did sound one truthful alarm: If Democrats achieve their goal of easier voter access with HR 1, “they will win and maintain control of the House of Representatives and the Senate and of the state legislatures for the next century.” Cruz is exaggerating, but his claims is premised on fact: Republicans do worse when voting access expands, and better when they can suppress it. But Cruz told an essential truth last week, on a conference call with Republican state legislators sponsored by the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council, which develops and promotes model conservative legislation.
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