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Why is President Obama threatening to shut down govt to shove Obamacare down Americans' throats?
Twitter ^ | 9/19/12 | Ted Cruz

Posted on 09/19/2013 11:18:42 AM PDT by Lakeshark

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To: Lakeshark
The Media, dems and half the voters will look at this as something the Republicans did. It how Obama has operated since day one. He didn't do it, Republicans did and the media will run with it.
21 posted on 09/19/2013 11:46:56 AM PDT by martinidon
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To: Lakeshark

despot Odungo


22 posted on 09/19/2013 11:54:59 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Rappini

He sure is doing his utmost to fundamentaly transform our Country into a 3rd world Hell hole.


23 posted on 09/19/2013 11:56:27 AM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: Logical me

Go away, then.

Yellow, hopeless and helpless is disgusting here, not appreciated, and not needed, nor synonymous with “Logical”. Seriously, call a pharmacy.


24 posted on 09/19/2013 11:58:22 AM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: Lakeshark

The NWO order needs obozo care to further their agenda of absolute control. The Bushs are one family that is behind the NWO and Jebby Bush has spoken publicly today against the congress defunding it. I’m afraid the folks behind the NWO will have their way unless they are exposed personally and then jailed or exterminated and their stolen fortunes returned to the people.


25 posted on 09/19/2013 12:00:11 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: Lakeshark

I posted this as my message on face book hours ago. Blame 0bama plain and simple and don’t back down!!


26 posted on 09/19/2013 12:00:38 PM PDT by The Mayor (Honesty means never having to look over your shoulder.)
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To: RitaOK; Logical me
Yellow, hopeless and helpless is disgusting here, not appreciated, and not needed, nor synonymous with “Logical”.

I was about to say that, but you did it for me.

Thank you.

27 posted on 09/19/2013 12:01:56 PM PDT by Lakeshark (KILL THE BILL! CALL. FAX. WRITE.)
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To: Rappini

What earnings of ours here on stateside has been trashed and crashed and the rest sent out of the country as fast as possible, and with both hands.

There is no conceivable reason to let treason stand. If we are broke for years, still, there must be consequences, and deeper collapse must be stopped, or bust.


28 posted on 09/19/2013 12:06:07 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: Lakeshark

xoxo.


29 posted on 09/19/2013 12:11:16 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: Lakeshark

Because he can


30 posted on 09/19/2013 12:15:16 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Lakeshark

But ObamaCare is GOOD.

The bill we had to pass before we could read it is so GOOD that it includes fines for those who don’t buy ObamaCare, so GOOD that it had to be voted on at night on a weekend to dodge the news cycle, and so GOOD that it is worth shutting down the entire federal government to compel the American people to accept ObamaCare.

Somehow, I’m not convinced that working Americans will view a government shutdown with as much alarm as Obama imagines, especially if it includes repealing ObamaCare as a bonus.


31 posted on 09/19/2013 12:17:24 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Lakeshark; DefeatCorruption; mtnwmn; Vindication; skinkinthegrass; katiedidit1; upchuck; ...

Ted Cruz Ping!

If you want on/off this ping list let me know.

But poster beware, it is somewhat a high-volume ping list!


32 posted on 09/19/2013 12:37:11 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Lakeshark
Why did Adolph Hitler prefer that the Germans be conquered by the Russians than by the Americans/Brits?

Simple answer is that they ran a system more comparable to the national socialism in which he so fervently believed.

33 posted on 09/19/2013 12:59:35 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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Folks, please note that one of the very few powers that the states have delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, to regulate an aspect of commerce within a state’s borders is the control of mail services as evidenced by the Constitution’s Clause 7 of Section 8 of Article I. So the idea of a shutdown federal government that politicians in DC are now brandishing as a threat is actually arguably close to what the Founding States had envisioned as a normal, peacetime mail delivery day for the federal government anyway, the states uniquely having the 10th Amendment power to regulate, tax and spend for all other “government” services that citizens have been indoctrinated to expect from the feds.

In other words, the idea of shutting down the federal government should arguably be synonymous with the temporary disruption of mail services and little more imo. (Yes, this last statement is admittedly oversimplified because of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers.)

Noting that I will support Cruz for president if Obama guard dog Fx News nominates Cruz for Republican candidate, and also noting that federal government services cannot be shut down at this time without creating major problems, it disturbs me to see Constitution expert Cruz also playing the federal government shutdown game merely as a threat instead of using the situation as an opportunity to teach citizens about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.


34 posted on 09/19/2013 1:00:29 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: drypowder

The elites of the NWO are atheists who believe they’re the only ones who can save mankind. And to do it, millions will have to die. That is their plan.

As for those who claim to be Christian, we should recognize them by their deeds.


35 posted on 09/19/2013 1:16:58 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: Lakeshark

Why is Karl Rove spouting the democrat talking points?

He is saying: “The republicans want to shut down the government.”

He is either a turncoat or he’s stupid. Since he isn’t stupid...

The Republicans ARE funding the government, every bit of it that has been funded in the past is being funded by the Republicans.

They do not want to ADD ObamaCare to our spending.

If the Senate refuses to send it to Obama for signature, then THE SENATE is shutting down the government all because a new expense that is already killing the economy, that the President has cut exemption deals with his friends on, and that is now, honestly scored to cost DOUBLE what it was sold as.

The principle is simple, as it is with any home budget:

Last in, first out.


36 posted on 09/19/2013 1:28:21 PM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: Lakeshark

He’s acting like any dictator and will die like one.


37 posted on 09/19/2013 1:41:37 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: xzins
Why is Karl Rove spouting the democrat talking points?

He's done it before, I wish I understood why.

One thing for sure, I don't intend to take his advice on this one, and I have honestly lost trust in the man.

It's a sad thing, I hope he realizes how destructive he has become to America, and stops.

38 posted on 09/19/2013 2:13:06 PM PDT by Lakeshark (KILL THE BILL! CALL. FAX. WRITE.)
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To: Lakeshark

The Republicans need to corner the coward and let him close it all down if he wishes.


39 posted on 09/19/2013 2:16:02 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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All of us need to pitch in. Cruz is saying we need every conservative to get at least three others to sign the petition, then he wants calls to the House leadership and your individual congress critter thanking them for their stand, asking them to hold their ground. Last, call your Senator, even the blue states.

The ball is in our court.

40 posted on 09/19/2013 2:21:57 PM PDT by Lakeshark (KILL THE BILL! CALL. FAX. WRITE.)
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