Posted on 09/26/2013 11:31:37 AM PDT by jazusamo
Here’s Toomey’s statement..and of course he sidesteps the cloture vote.....doing just what Cruz said they would do...
Sen. Toomey Issues Statement On Obamacare & CR
Wednesday, Sep 25
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) has released the following statement on Obamacare and the House-passed continuing resolution (CR) currently under consideration in the Senate:
“From the start, my goal has been, and continues to be, to completely repeal the President’s health care law as soon as possible. Obamacare hurts our economy, shrinks paychecks, and moves our health care system in the wrong direction. It is simply not fixable.
“With President Obama in the White House and the Democratic party controlling the Senate, full repeal, unfortunately, cannot be achieved now. However, I believe that, right now, we can delay and dismantle some of the most egregious flaws in this law - flaws which have been acknowledged by lawmakers in both parties. I, therefore, intend to offer reasonable amendments that would help achieve this objective, including for instance, a measure to repeal the health care law’s medical device tax which drives up costs for patients and threatens Pennsylvania jobs.
“If Majority Leader Reid insists on granting himself the power to gut the House-passed bill with 51 votes, while preventing me and other Senators from even offering amendments with broad bipartisan support, I will vote against cloture on the bill.”
Well said and so true.
I truly believe that’s why McQueeg was so ticked yesterday after Sen. Cruz’ filibuster, the turkey knows it.
A simpler solution is to show these RINOs the door and give them a good swift kick in the backside on the way out, starting with the Weeper of the House!
We are fixing to find out how many Republicans we have in the House.
Boils down to that really.
Repeal the whole danged thing. Repealing the medical device tax is not enough.
Permit me one change to your post and you would be correct.
The fact that he’s the POTUS notwithstanding.... for Obama has proven that he is “ a politician who is willing to damage the military and reduce it’s effectiveness for a decade into the future to achieve his socialist aims is a terrorist.”
not only that he sends US weaponry into the hands of muslim terrorists... his friends.
Cruz has really laid bare the true nature of the bottom feeders and paltroons in the GOP. Having been so identified maybe we can now eradicate them & send them back home where they can wallow with the rest of us in the sewer they helped create.
Yeah! 38 D's!
Sorry Cruz, you have fought gallantly and showed what a leader with a spine is supposed to look like, but that simply way, WAY too big of an IF there for us to be able to count on it.
I bet the weeper of the house was bullied when he was in grade school and liked it.
Blessings, bobo
Amen. And that’s the truth. The founders set it up this way for the specific purpose of thwarting an out of control chief executive and senate. They were very wise men. If only our people’s representatives in the house have the courage to carry out their constitutional duty to save the republic with the constitutional powers provided.
Prayers up!
And I was thinking of gonads. Didn’t think of it that way. Whoremones is probably a better choice.
Blessings, Bobo
BTW forgive my spelling.
Hold the line, there newbie. This is FR. We fight for freedom here and do not surrender!
Well I’ll take Sen. Cruz’ efforts on this whole fiasco even with the IF’s over what came out of McQueeg’s mouth yesterday as well as many other RINO’s.
Remember something, there’s few things we can count on in politics but we can count on Sen. Cruz to do his best for Conservatives.
Repealing the medical device tax is not enough.
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A lot of Dems are already getting pressure to repeal the medical tax. So this issue is not the basis to declare any kind of victory; it just gets the Dems an excuse to rid themselves of an unworkable problem.
The Republican “leadership” is a ship of fools.
Amen to that.
Sen. Cruz is trying valiantly to light a fire under our representatives, I pray he’s successful.
Put me on the Ted Cruz ping list please!
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