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Re: Ted Cruz Talking Filibuster in progress
« Reply #25 on: September 24, 2013, 09:02:08 pm »
Hey, Donald.  It's a shame Ted Cruz spent the last two weeks trashing Republicans instead of working with them to do something that might actually succeed.


hmmm he has not been doing the trashing, in fact he has been a gentleman while he is being pounded by people who SHOULD be supporting him... just to be sure I googled it... "cruz trashing Republicans" and this is what came up:

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        Hugh Hewitt Goes Off on 'Whiny' Republicans Trashing Ted Cruz: 'Get In The Game!'
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        Radio host Hugh Hewitt went on a powerful tirade against Bob Corker and other Republicans undermining any GOP attempt to defund ...
    Sep 16, 2013 - Ted Cruz and similar legislators" are obstructionists who care more about undermining the Republican establishment than advancing ...

    David Brooks' lame trashing of Ted Cruz - WorldNetDaily
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    21 hours ago - Cruz vows to use all 'means available' to block ObamaCare, Reid tees up budget vote | Fox News. The Texas senator's battle, though, got off to ...
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and much, much more.. I see no article saying the barbs have been sent the other way against the GOP
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Re: Ted Cruz Talking Filibuster in progress
« Reply #26 on: September 24, 2013, 09:07:02 pm »
Since when shouldn't Americans fight for what they believe in? It is the conservatives who are standing by their principles. The rest of them are politics firsters, mostly for personal profit.

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Re: Ted Cruz Talking Filibuster in progress
« Reply #27 on: September 24, 2013, 09:07:17 pm »
http://washingtonexaminer.com/harry-reid-says-ted-cruz-isnt-doing-a-real-filibuster/article/2536321

Harry Reid says Ted Cruz isn't doing a real filibuster
By JOEL GEHRKE | SEPTEMBER 24, 2013 AT 3:13 PM

Senate Majority Harry Reid, D-Nev., told reporters that Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who began speaking without interruption on the Senate floor Tuesday in opposition to funding Obamacare, isn't engaged in a real filibuster.

"There's no filibuster going on now," Reid said Tuesday. "People can come and talk, but they can't do anything to change when we vote." The vote is scheduled for Wednesday.

Cruz took the floor today, explaining that he "intended to speak out in defense of defunding Obamacare until I can no longer stand."

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters he would not object to having the cloture vote before tomorrow -- Reid would like to have it as soon as possible, to leave more time before the budget deadline to respond to any legislation the House passes -- but that can't happen if Cruz holds the floor today.
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"If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it," Cruz said, in reference to legislators who want congressional staff exempted from Obamacare.

He also faulted his Republican colleagues who opposed the push to defund the health care law through the continuing resolution by alluding to "The Little Engine That Could." "The message would be simple — that little engine can't," Cruz said.
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Re: Ted Cruz Talking Filibuster in progress
« Reply #28 on: September 24, 2013, 09:24:25 pm »
http://washingtonexaminer.com/harry-reid-says-ted-cruz-isnt-doing-a-real-filibuster/article/2536321

Harry Reid says Ted Cruz isn't doing a real filibuster
By JOEL GEHRKE | SEPTEMBER 24, 2013 AT 3:13 PM

Senate Majority Harry Reid, D-Nev., told reporters that Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who began speaking without interruption on the Senate floor Tuesday in opposition to funding Obamacare, isn't engaged in a real filibuster.

"There's no filibuster going on now," Reid said Tuesday. "People can come and talk, but they can't do anything to change when we vote." The vote is scheduled for Wednesday.

Cruz took the floor today, explaining that he "intended to speak out in defense of defunding Obamacare until I can no longer stand."

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters he would not object to having the cloture vote before tomorrow -- Reid would like to have it as soon as possible, to leave more time before the budget deadline to respond to any legislation the House passes -- but that can't happen if Cruz holds the floor today.
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"If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it," Cruz said, in reference to legislators who want congressional staff exempted from Obamacare.

He also faulted his Republican colleagues who opposed the push to defund the health care law through the continuing resolution by alluding to "The Little Engine That Could." "The message would be simple — that little engine can't," Cruz said.

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Re: Ted Cruz Talking Filibuster in progress
« Reply #29 on: September 24, 2013, 09:26:44 pm »

Rand Paul to join Cruz in Senate floor protest against ObamaCare
By Alexandra Jaffe - 09/24/13 04:03 PM ET

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is planning to head to the Senate floor to support Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-Texas) attempt to delay a Senate vote on the House-passed government funding measure that defunds ObamaCare.

Cruz is speaking on the Senate floor "until I am no longer able to stand," he said, as a protest intended to prevent Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) from stripping the bill of the provision that defunds ObamaCare.

A Paul aide said that the senator, who famously launched a talking filibuster of John Brennan's nomination as CIA director to focus attention on President Obama's policy on drones earlier this year, will join Cruz on the floor to offer "reinforcements" sometime later today. It's unclear how long Paul will talk, or what he's expected to say.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is opposed to Cruz's gambit.

"Senator McConnell supports the House Republicans' bill and will not vote to block it, since it defunds ObamaCare and funds the government without increasing spending by a penny," McConnell spokesman Don Stewart said Monday in a statement. "He will also vote against any amendment that attempts to add Obamacare funding back into the House Republicans' bill."

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is expected to advance H.J.Res. 59 with an amendment to remove the House language that defunds ObamaCare.

A vote to end debate on the motion to proceed is expected Wednesday, and Cruz's actions cannot stop that from happening.

— Ramsey Cox contributed reporting.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/324285-rand-paul-to-join-cruz-in-senate-floor-protest-against-obamacare#ixzz2fqcnZ9TV
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Re: Ted Cruz Talking Filibuster in progress
« Reply #30 on: September 24, 2013, 09:31:31 pm »
Who is upholding Republican principles? Do they even matter to some on here?

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« Reply #31 on: September 24, 2013, 09:39:40 pm »
Who is upholding Republican principles? Do they even matter to some on here?

http://whitehouse16.com/republican-party-platform/#Item6

Ted Cruz is doing two things in this effort! He is following through on his pledge to oppose Obamacare in every way open to him and, more importantly in my view, he is exposing the RINO Ba$#%@#$# who need to GO!

Good on him for both!
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« Reply #32 on: September 24, 2013, 09:45:09 pm »
Who is upholding Republican principles? Do they even matter to some on here?

http://whitehouse16.com/republican-party-platform/#Item6

I have been waiting for most of my adult life to see elected republican stand up en mass for the principles laid out by the grass roots of the party in the platform but I've lived a long time and not seen it yet. Still hoping to see it before I die!
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Re: Ted Cruz Talking Filibuster in progress
« Reply #33 on: September 24, 2013, 09:48:21 pm »





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Re: Ted Cruz Talking Filibuster in progress
« Reply #34 on: September 24, 2013, 09:49:06 pm »
Ted Cruz is doing two things in this effort! He is following through on his pledge to oppose Obamacare in every way open to him and, more importantly in my view, he is exposing the RINO Ba$#%@#$# who need to GO!

Good on him for both!

Hell, he is exposing all of the government. Did you catch earlier when he described illegal extortion and how, when the Senate does it (and he was specific) they can get away with it?  He is calling them out. I hope a lot of people are watching this.

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« Reply #35 on: September 24, 2013, 09:52:47 pm »
Hell, he is exposing all of the government. Did you catch earlier when he described illegal extortion and how, when the Senate does it (and he was specific) they can get away with it?  He is calling them out. I hope a lot of people are watching this.

I should be working, but I'm glued to cSpan.. and I just popped some popcorn (seriously)
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« Reply #36 on: September 24, 2013, 09:57:14 pm »
Hoot!  Sen Sessions and a tutorial on single payer==excellent.

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« Reply #37 on: September 24, 2013, 10:01:17 pm »


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« Reply #39 on: September 24, 2013, 10:07:59 pm »




Bigun....I hope this is a recent photo!!     :beer:

About a year old now. The photo that is!
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« Reply #40 on: September 24, 2013, 10:11:22 pm »
I heart Jeff Sessions, too!  :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:
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« Reply #41 on: September 24, 2013, 10:19:03 pm »
Mr. Cruz goes to Washington.
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« Reply #42 on: September 24, 2013, 10:20:10 pm »
UPDATE: Sen. Jeff Sessions Says Obamacare Will Make DC More of a Boomtown

Sessions said Obamacare would create more jobs for bureaucrats and lobbyists in DC at a time when the rest of the nation is struggling economically. Cruz said the "boom business in our economy is government" and that was unfortunate because smart people see gaming the government as a way to enrich themselves. Cruz said the divide between the bipartisan ruling class and the rest of America was the greatest source of the country's problems and disillusionment.

UPDATE: Sen. Jeff Sessions Joins Cruz on the Senate Floor

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), a staunch opponent of the Senate's amnesty bill, earned the respect of many conservatives with his war-horse like work in opposing comprehensive immigration reform.

He asked Cruz if Obamacare leads to a single-payer system, who would be the payer?

Cruz said that government would be the payer, which means the taxpayers. Cruz noted that once government pays for healthcare it can control it. He had said that the vote for cloture on the bill before the Senate will be the most important vote he will have taken in his nine months in the Senate because it is a question of whether senators will be responding to the "suffering" that Obamacare has wrought across America. Cruz said senators have the "for me but not for thee" mentality on Obamacare, and Cruz said senators would oppose Obamacare more fiercely if their healthcare or that of their children were on the line like it is for many of America's most vulnerable.
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« Reply #43 on: September 24, 2013, 10:20:36 pm »
I should be working, but I'm glued to cSpan.. and I just popped some popcorn (seriously)

That's how I've been today. Luckily I am working at home today so I'm a bit more flexible.

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« Reply #45 on: September 24, 2013, 10:24:33 pm »
I watching it, too, and eating junk that I don't care for, but don't want to go to the grocery store while this is going on. I guess I will order delivery, but you have to order at least $25 and then, pay $2 for service, and the tip. I think I better go to the grocery. It's only 1/2 a mile from here.  LOL!

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Ted Cruz and Rand Paul have taken over the heart of the party. Christie going to have uphill battle against emotion...
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« Reply #47 on: September 24, 2013, 10:29:36 pm »
I respect everyone here on the forum.  Let me say that I hope Senator Cruz accomplishes something with this effort.  I would love to say all of you were right.  I certainly can't dispute the principles being defended!
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« Reply #48 on: September 24, 2013, 10:32:11 pm »
I respect everyone here on the forum.  Let me say that I hope Senator Cruz accomplishes something with this effort.  I would love to say all of you were right.  I certainly can't dispute the principles being defended!

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« Reply #49 on: September 24, 2013, 10:32:54 pm »
MATT DRUDGE        ✔ @DRUDGE

Ted Cruz and Rand Paul have taken over the heart of the party. Christie going to have uphill battle against emotion...
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If Christie is going up hill, it is best not to follow him. If he falls he is likely to crush anyone following him. (literal and metaphorical interpretations both apply).