Posted on 09/20/2013 11:16:00 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Sorry, you can’t convince the idiots and true believers and don’t need to. The majority of the people know what’s wrong with the economy-killing, jobs-killing, liberty-killing Marxist program and don’t want it. You need to work on convincing the Republican congress to not cave-in, no matter what. Obamacare cannot be funded if the House refuses to fund it. If they hold the line and defund it, they win big in 2014. If they cave and fund it, they own it. And they lose big in 2014.
Thanks, Jim, for specifically addressing my question. For a while there, I thought you were just a bot programmed to reply with platitudes (”Hell, no! We’ll never surrender!”, “Fight, fight, fight!”...)
Good to know you’re really there.
I know the polls have consistently shown 60%+ opposition to ObamaCare, and some polls showing a slim majority in favor of a government shutdown over ObamaCare, but my faith in the American electorate was fundamentally shaken in 2008 with Obama’s election, and totally shattered with his reelection in 2012. Plus I live in deep-blue NOVA, so I sometimes forget there are more than just a handful of true patriots left out there than who I see on FR.
One thing for sure, this ObamaCare/Continuing-Resolution showdown is going to be a significant turning point, one way or the other, for what’s left of our beloved Republic. May God grant us mercy.
Exactly Jim!
The ‘14 cycle has already begun and candidates are campaigning on this issue. At a minimum hundreds of thousands of jobs have already been lost, an equal number of employees have been demoted to part time, insurance coverage has been revoked for spouses, employee/retiree coverage pushed to the exchanges, or eliminated all together, physician choice is narrowing, medical professionals are either being dismissed or voluntarily exiting the field...It isn’t 2010 theory. It is and has been happening every day.
..and this is just the ice above the water. The absolute rewriting of the Constitution with this law is more perilous than all of the aforementioned points.
If voter x hasn’t comprehended any of this yet...put a toe tag on them and move on. We have got a war to win!
They Exempted THEMSELVES and their STAFF!
OUTRAGEOUS!
We’ve got nothing to lose from a government shutdown. We win both ways by holding the line.
Any federal program that is otherwise seen as essential ought to be taken over by the state governments to which it is vital. If, for example, states see national parks within their borders as absolutely essential to their tourism industries, those parks ought to become state parks. The same goes for transportation security and anything else that might eventually go on the chopping block.
State taxes will most likely go up to reflect the increase cost of such a change of hands but there is a huge difference in terms of liberty between such overarching powers being in the hands of the federal government and having them in the hands of state governments. State governments are far more accountable than the federal government ever can be.
With the federal government shut down it’s not like there is very much it could do about it in the long run if it remains shut down. Shut it down and leave it shut down until the respective states are able to set something else up in its place, something more akin to what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they created the federal government in the first place.
The alternative is simply more of the same — the current federal government will NEVER be fixed. Power, by its nature, seeks expansion. It will never contract of its own volition.
Traitor Cornyn’s Contact Info:
Washington DC
Washington, DC 20510
Main: 202-224-2934
Fax: 202-228-2856
Southeast Texas
Houston, TX 77007
Main: 713-572-3337
Fax: 713-572-3777
South Central Texas
San Antonio, TX 78205
Main: 210-224-7485
Fax: 210-224-8569
Central Texas
Austin, TX 78701
Main: 512-469-6034
Fax: 512-469-6020
East Texas
Dallas, TX 75244
Main: 972-239-1310
Fax: 972-239-2110
CALL HIS DISTRICT OFFICES—HE DOESN’T SEEM TO BE TAKING CALLS/FAXES AT HIS DC OFFICE!!
Contact John Cornyn:
http://www.contactsenators.com/texas/john-cornyn
Name: John Cornyn
State: Texas
Party: Republican
Class: Class II
Address: 517 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTION DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-2934
Email:
email form:
http://www.cornyn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactForm
The media will never conduct an honest interview of anyone the right of themselves. They will, however, use the opporutnity to mock and deride.
OK, here is the message I sent to the hopeless Senators from Washington State, Murry and Cantwell.
My wife and I and everyone who I know are terrible opposed to the “train wreck” of Obamacare and urge you to join the Republicans in defunding this drag on our economy which will push up premiums for many Americans. Far from being the “affordable” plan, it causes health care inflation and hurts private insurance, causing some companies to go out of business. We know people who have had their hours cut because of this disastrous bill. Instead of helping “the little guy” this bill hurt average Americans. We strongly oppose it. Thanks.
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