Iran deal, Obamacare etc

Submitted by Anon (India), May 1, 2016 at 21:01

I would disagree with the idea of tearing up the Iran deal which Cruz proposes to do. Iran's latest election results that further marginalized the hardliners is a sign that Iran is headed in the right direction and there is no reason to rock that boat given the ongoing hideous turmoil in the region. The fact that Iranians are not rabidly anti Israel also bodes well in the long term. It would be a disaster if a reckless Republican tore apart the Iranian deal and strengthened the mullahs who are increasingly feeling marginalized. The same goes with Obamacare - promising to repeal an economically sound idea that indeed came from a Republican (Romney) shows that Cruz in very poor light. See for instance: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/11/the-obamacare-replacement-mirage/

The lack of understanding that conservative Republicans have shown on issue after issue from their dire warnings that "America would turn into Zimbabwe and the dollar would collapse" to their reckless invasion and antagonizing of countries that had nothing to do with 9/11(iraq, iran, north korea) or their promises to rip apart Obamacare on their first day in office means that a Republican president from the current crop would be an epic disaster. Its worth noting that Obama's approval ratings are twice what Bush had at a similar juncture in his second term.
Cruz will end up in the dust bin of history where he belongs along with Trump and other dimwitted Republican contenders.

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