Politapocalypse (U.S. Politics Megathread)

Prominent Republican acknowledges reality: literally news.

But the couple’s decision to pump more than $1 million into Mr. Cruz’s successful Tea Party-darling Senate bid in Texas was made easier by a large loan from Goldman Sachs, where Mrs. Cruz works. That loan was not disclosed in campaign finance reports.

Huckabee joins the Republicans with questions about Cruz’s eligibility

"When it first surfaced, I didn't think it did," Huckabee said. "But after now reading a number of very thoughtful pieces by constitutional experts, yeah, I think it should give everybody a little concern. It's an issue that's got to be dealt with. There was one article from Lawrence Tribe, and there was another from a professor who wrote in The Washington Post, and it was very compelling argument. It was not a political argument. This person gave very serious reasons as to why this was a serious question."

In a few words, Huckabee became at least the fourth rival to Cruz to ask whether his eligibility could be questioned. Carly Fiorina cited "legal scholars" who had judged the issue "legitimate." Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who had once brushed off the question, suddenly called it a potential problem. And then there was Donald Trump, whose predictable obsession with the topic seemed to finally end the mutual admiration pact between Cruz and himself.

That would have been bad enough, had Republicans as eminent as RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Gov. Terry Branstad (R-Iowa) refused to simply call Cruz eligible, or call the question ridiculous.

That isn't what I said at all. I said that the millionaire is doing much better by the American political-economic system and should therefore bear the brunt of the costs of that system. The millionaire is a millionaire because our American system is working for them. If Americans all worked the same job for the same wage then paying the same tax rates would be just fine...but it isn't.