Quick Fact: In Washington, You Can Spell Hypocrisy C-R-U-Z

During last month's government shutdown, Ted Cruz and his Tea Party cronies tried everything they could think of to derail the Affordable Care Act.   One measure, crafted by Senator David Vitter (R-Louisiana) and pushed by Mr. Cruz during negotiations to re-open the U.S. would have eliminated employer paid health care for all federal employees.  In the hope that Democrats would be shamed into capitulation, the proposal was voiced as a "see what we are willing to sacrifice" argument by Mr. Cruz.

When Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) questioned Mr. Cruz about his own health insurance, Mr. Cruz would say only that he was "eligible" for federal health benefits, but that he was "not currently covered under" the Capitol Hill employee program.  

It turns out that Mr. Cruz's "sacrifice" was really not a sacrifice at all--at least not for him.  He is fully covered, at no cost to himself or his family, by his wife's health care policy which she receives as an employee of Goldman Sachs.  

So, while Mr. Cruz was happy to offer that every federal employee give up their employer paid health coverage--from his fellow congressmen to the lowest paid of his own aides and every federal employee in his home state--in order to win a few anti-Obama bragging points, he did so knowing that it would come at zero cost to himself.

I give you Senator Ted Cruz, (R-Texas), Poster Child for the Hypocrisy Guild of America.