Posted on 09/24/2013 6:18:03 AM PDT by Qbert
So House Republicans have passed and sent to the Senate a budget that includes no funding for the Affordable Care Act, setting up a political showdown that could result in a government shutdown. We wish the GOP luck, since we support the policy if not the strategy.
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That starts with Senators Mike Lee (Utah) and Ted Cruz (Texas), who joined with a handful of conservative groups to force Speaker John Boehner's hand. In July they had vowed to mobilize a grass-roots "army" to support ObamaCare repeal. The legions never arrived, but the activists still insisted that any continuing resolution to fund the government had to zero-out ObamaCare.
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When Mr. Reid does send a budget back to the House, the question is what the GOP does then. If it passes another budget with the defund-ObamaCare provision, the Senate will refuse again, and we are headed toward a partial government shutdown. This won't be the end of the world, but the politics are treacherous and unpredictable.
When Mr. Cruz demands that House Republicans "hold firm," he means they should keep trying to defund ObamaCare even if it results in a shutdown that President Obama will blame on Republicans. It's nice of him to volunteer House Republicans for duty. The supposedly intrepid General Cruz can view the battle from the comfort of HQ while the enlisted troops take any casualties.
The Lee-Cruz strategy, to the extent it's about more than fund-raising lists or getting face time on cable TV, seems to be that if the House holds "firm" amid a shutdown, then the public will eventually blame Mr. Obama and the Democrats, who will then fold and defund ObamaCare.
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The question is how to oppose ObamaCare when Republicans control only one house of Congress.
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(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Do the right thing and the public will follow. Defund this turd and let the chips fall where they may.
Like most here, I am squarely in Cruz’s and Lee’s camp here. The DC leadership is a failure. Right now, they are committing political suicide for themselves and the party.
“Defunding will never work because no one is in favor of it,” said the Wall Street Journal, in deciding not to support.
Thanks, WSJ.
Ted Cruz and Mike Lee are the only two Republicans in the US Senate who CONSISTENTLY make an effort to actually CONSERVE, in my humble, but usually correct opinion.
Therefore, use those two Senators to compare and contrast the present opponents to Old-Style Republican Cornyn.
My guess is that someone on the TEXAS PING list personally knows a superb future Senate candidate, cut from the same cloth as Cruz and Lee.
Yep, it is a dirty job, but we need to reach out to these future candidates, and ask them to run for Federal office for the good of their children, grandchildren and their descendants.
“What we have here, is failure to communicate.” ( Warden in movie “Cool Hand Luke.”)
We claim to be “Conservatives,” but what are we focused on Conserving?
Where are the men and women that are willing to be candidates to conserve what we want conserved?
The New Republican Party starts when YOU step up and act.
What has each of us done to encourage and recruit men and women to be candidates to conserve what is left of our State or Country?
How have we “failed to communicate?”
Let’s not do anything that makes any sense...
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And let’s not stand up for principle. /sarc
The old saw about Republicans not having a spine is absolutely true. Even when they have a majority they don’t do anything. I’m sick of them.
Counting on Boehner,Ryan and Cantor to be the point men in the above is like counting on winning the lottery to pay your property tax bill.
Better to stop Cloture in Senate as Cruz is calling for, even though the Senate rules are hard to get people to understand.
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!!
There is no grass roots army
There are disgruntled sheep unwilling to get off their complacente
asses A d attack the president in the streets
I have not been this excited about a republican since 1979 (Reagan).
“Defunding will never work because no one is in favor of it,” said the Wall Street Journal, in deciding not to support.
Thanks, WSJ.
Well they ARE on the side of big business and Obamacare will be BIG business for the elites who stand to make fortunes by raping the American taxpayers who will not be able to pay double taxes very long for a healthcare system that is obviously designed to maximize profits by withholding treatment unless you fit certain molds.
It’s the campaign of American citizens against Democrat and GOP tyrants is what it is.
Those GOP who are against us are going to be gone.
Well this sheop sent out 60 + emails to senators yesterday so you must be talking bout the ‘other’ sheople...; )
When you have absolutely no leadership in DC, how hard can it be?
Pray America is waking up
Wake up closeted RATS. The United States hasn't had a budget in years. And that's part of the problem.
Contrast that bit of fluff with
"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but "to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER" and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.
Cruz suggested, and I agree, that the House respond by we sending smaller CR bills back to the Senate that provide funding for the government “one department at a time” - starting with the military, and naturally never including a cent for Obamacare.
The DC leadership is a failure. Right now, they are committing political suicide for themselves and the party.
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I’m sure the GOP-e is telling Cruz: “Hey Ted, don’t get wrapped around the axel on this. You can’t win. It’s OK to attack something to pick up a few votes, but don’t make waves for the rest of us. Besides, we’ll exempt ourselves from this thing that the rest of the masses are stuck with. Remember Ted, to get along you gotta go along.”
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