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Ted Cruz receives standing ovation at Texas return
The Daily Caller ^ | October 20, 2013 | Patrick Howley

Posted on 10/20/2013 9:02:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz received an eight-minute standing ovation upon his return to Texas this past weekend, despite an extended, hostile campaign from Democrats and the mainstream media to portray him as a dangerous extremist.

“After two months in Washington, it’s great to be back in America,” Cruz said Saturday to approximately 750 people at an appearance in a San Antonio hotel ballroom, enjoying an eight-minute standing ovation for his dogged efforts to defund or delay Obamacare in the recent continuing-resolution budget fight.

Cruz also criticized members of his own Senate caucus for ”failing to stand with House Republicans against the train wreck that is Obamacare.”

The establishment media consistently criticized Cruz for supposedly violating Senate procedure and inflaming tensions with his more than 21-hour floor speech in favor of defunding Obamacare, despite the fact that most journalists have never done anything for 21 consecutive hours in their entire lives, according to reluctant Daily Caller interactions with respectable and educated Washington reporters....

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TOPICS: Texas; Issues; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: cruz; loneranger; shutdown; tedcruz; texas

1 posted on 10/20/2013 9:02:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Loved Cruz’s response about how he isn’t in the Senate to please the Party bosses. Of course, that’s the biggest thing that ticks them off so much — how dare he!?!

Of course the Pope wasn’t too pleased when Martin Luther nailed his Ninety Five Theses to the door, either...


2 posted on 10/20/2013 9:16:56 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: bigbob

As he should. The old boyeez network is way past it’s use by date. In mcconnels case “sell/buy” date is more appropriate.


3 posted on 10/20/2013 9:19:40 PM PDT by rktman (Inergalactic background checks? King hussein you're first up.)
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To: rktman

You’ll see how KY people have some kind of bizarre loyalty to McC. No one can really explain it, other than lack of knowledge of voters.


4 posted on 10/20/2013 9:20:57 PM PDT by Theodore R. (The grand pooh-bahs have spoken: "It's Jebbie's turn!" to LOSE!)
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To: Theodore R.

I can explain it.

$$$$$$$$ and lots of it.


5 posted on 10/20/2013 9:22:11 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

!


6 posted on 10/20/2013 9:23:12 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: Theodore R.

Luv, luv, luv the new dam money.


7 posted on 10/20/2013 9:26:09 PM PDT by rktman (Inergalactic background checks? King hussein you're first up.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
And the main stream media propagandist have declared the Tea Party has been dealt a fatal blow.
They declared that people like Ted Cruz have lost and the Tea Party is going to lose big time next year.

Sorry Liberals, Democrats, Main Stream Media...... this is just half time and the Tea Party is gearing up for the 2nd half.
8 posted on 10/20/2013 9:38:40 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: American Constitutionalist

The media doesn’t understand that the tea party is not an actual political party but really a state of mind.


9 posted on 10/20/2013 9:42:16 PM PDT by bigtoona
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To: bigtoona

In fact the term tea party was simply a good way to identify and sum up the common thinking that MILLIONS of people share.


10 posted on 10/20/2013 9:45:19 PM PDT by bigtoona
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To: bigtoona

” really a state of mind. “ and the boogie man lives rent free in their heads...


11 posted on 10/20/2013 9:50:53 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: bigtoona

Exactly!!

WE ARE AMERICA !!!!!

The left just doesn’t want to admit it; they’re scared to death of us .. along with Cruz, and Lee, AND THEY SHOULD BE.


12 posted on 10/20/2013 10:33:23 PM PDT by CyberAnt (MY AMERICA: "... I'm terrified it's slipping away.")
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To: Theodore R.

Like Robert Byrd in WV.


13 posted on 10/21/2013 12:19:18 AM PDT by gattaca ("Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: bigbob

14 posted on 10/21/2013 12:48:15 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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