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Peter King's new goal: Take down Ted Cruz
WashingtonExaminer.com ^ | OCTOBER 14, 2013 AT 12:15 PM | ASHE SCHOW

Posted on 10/15/2013 10:37:37 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., is no fan of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.

The New York congressman made it clear on Monday’s "Morning Joe" that he will work to stop Cruz and his allies in their tracks.

“I’ve been speaking out against Ted Cruz and this whole crazy movement since it started,” King told MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski.

King also said he thought that “there’s no doubt that the Democrats are winning,” and that President Obama needed to play “a more aggressive role” in the negotiations to reopen the government and lift the debt ceiling.

King also warned that Cruz and his allies would pick another fight soon.

“We as Republicans have to anticipate there’s going to be another one of these in six weeks or eight weeks or three months — whatever it is,” King said. “And we just can’t have national Republicans criticizing the system.”

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“We have to anticipate Ted Cruz is going to try to do this again,” King said. “Ted Cruz, and 30 or 40 people in the House — and we have to start going after him by name.”

King claimed that Cruz will try to “rewrite history” when his movement loses.

“What will happen is months from now, after this is resolved, he’s going to say, ‘Republicans were on the verge of winning, but they lost their nerve at the end and they caved in — this time it’s going to work.’” King said.

“And [Cruz] is going to rewrite history and we have to make sure he doesn’t do it,” King said. “It’s really time to speak out against him.”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
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To: chicagolady

Done!


61 posted on 10/15/2013 1:45:52 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: LibFreeUSA

Why do I suddenly visualize the ancient craw of of John McCain open wide, and PETER KING emerge from it, leaner, meaner,more politically “viable” as a “fresher” face, and even more craven and clueless?


62 posted on 10/15/2013 2:35:29 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: Doogle

He needs to try and take down Obama and ObamaCare!!! His priorities are a bit mixed up:o(


63 posted on 10/15/2013 2:47:55 PM PDT by mtnwmn (Liberalism leads to Socialism)
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To: SoConPubbie

When is Mr Low IQ’s term up?


64 posted on 10/15/2013 2:55:02 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: Doogle

I tried to post this pic from Photobucket with my iPhone and couldn’t seem to get the whole link. Glad you used it!


65 posted on 10/15/2013 3:09:34 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: SoConPubbie

In a fight between King and Cruz my money is on Cruz.


66 posted on 10/15/2013 3:15:58 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Bushbacker1

“Time for you to change parties, Mr. King. You’re no more than NE liberal/progressive. FUPK! Quisling!”

I have to admit, I read your line wrong the first time. At first glance I read it as “time for you to change PANTIES, Mr King”

Then once I remembered what kind of squish he is, it really did seem fitting that he change panties.


67 posted on 10/15/2013 3:42:32 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: Grampa Dave

““And [Cruz] is going to rewrite history and we have to make sure he doesn’t do it,” King said. “It’s really time to speak out against him.”

I wonder what principles King thinks Cruz is standing for..? Does King ever stand for anything or is he just a big-mouthed hired gun assassin for the Democrats.


68 posted on 10/15/2013 3:43:43 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: Doogle

Tea Party’s New Goal:

Take down and remove Reprobate King.

Mess with ours, we’ll mess with him.


69 posted on 10/15/2013 3:57:17 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: SoConPubbie

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3078675/posts

Ted Cruz Isn’t The Problem With The Republican Party, He’s The Solution
RightWing News ^ | October 14, 2013 | John Hawkins

Posted on Monday, October 14, 2013 6:18:15 AM by SoConPubbie

Liberals have the Democrat Party, Establishment Republicans have the GOP and conservatives have no party that represents them in Washington.

Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of Republicans who say they’re conservative. There are even plenty of Republicans who will vote like conservatives when it doesn’t matter. But, how many conservatives are actually willing to fight for conservative principles the way Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi fight for liberal principles? In the House and Senate combined, there are a few dozen, tops and the establishment Republicans are incessantly bemoaning the fact that anyone stands up for conservatism.

So when Ted Cruz and Mike Lee pushed to defund Obamacare, grassroots conservatives embraced the idea. Most of them did so knowing full well that getting Obama to defund the Affordable Care Act was the longest of longshots. However, they also knew that there were and are plenty of other opportunities to be grasped.

That has certainly turned out to be so.

Obama has been telling the world he won’t negotiate while he punitively shuts down national parks, kicks old people out of their homes and blocks off veterans from memorials. Conservatives are energized by the fight. Every Democrat in the Senate has now gone on record as being in favor of Obamacare, saying it doesn’t need to be delayed and saying that they deserve an exemption from Obamacare that the rest of the public doesn’t get.

If this isn’t a winnable fight for the Republican Party, you have to wonder what a winnable fight would look like? If Obama publicly sacrificed a baby a Satan on Ted Kennedy’s birthday, would the public believe that the GOP was waging a war on children after listening to John Boehner and Mitch McConnell for 10 minutes?

Moreover, the one heavily skewed Wall Street poll that’s freaking squishy Republicans out isn’t telling the whole story. Barack Obama’s approval rating has dropped to 37% and his approval rate with independents is down to 16%. Barack Obama is the face of the Democrat Party and those are the kind of numbers that lead to political bloodbaths while dislike for Congress has sadly become the rule, not the exception. Moreover, there are still great opportunities to be had. How about funding the entire government, but insisting on removing the exemption for members of Congress and their staffs?

Let the Democrats tell the world that they’re willing to shut down the government to make sure that the American public supplements the cost of their Obamacare coverage. That’s a very winnable fight, but sadly, you have to suspect that a lot of Republicans would rather lose the political fight than lose the exemption they’re getting from the law. They might vote for it when they know the Democrats won’t agree, but actually winning on the issue? They’d prefer a half-hearted loss than a go for the throat win.

But instead, after some smart early maneuvers from the House, the GOP leadership team there has largely fallen silent. Meanwhile, Republicans in the Senate have been actively working with the Democrats to undermine the House. In addition, establishment mediocrities like John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Haley Barbour, Devin Nunes, Grover Norquist, John Sununu, Bob Corker and the loathsome Peter King have been fighting tooth and nail against their real enemy: Grassroots champions like Ted Cruz who actually want to stand up for conservatives instead of corporations, fatcat donors and country club Republicans.

The problem with the Republican Party isn’t politicians like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee who actually believe in representing the people who sent them to DC, it’s the establishment Republicans who fight harder against conservatives than they’ll fight against the Democrats along with a GOP “leadership” that can’t talk, strategize or do much of anything except flounder around haplessly while they get their brains beaten in by the Democrats.

It’s all well and good to say, “The most important thing is to win more seats and then we’ll fight later.” The problem with that is we’ve already gone down that road during the Bush years and we found that the same people who don’t want to fight now, didn’t want to fight when we had the House, the Senate and the White House either. In fact, a big part of the reason why the GOP lost the House, the Senate and the White House was because Medicare Part D and more funding for the National Endowment for the Arts was their idea of what the GOP should be doing when it was in charge.

People hate the Republican Party right now — and they should. It doesn’t communicate well, it doesn’t do much outreach to groups that don’t vote for us, it doesn’t stand up for the values it supposedly believes in, it betrays its supporters on a regular basic and although it claims to be the adult party of small government, reduced spending and law and order, it doesn’t consistently stand up for those principles even in the minority. Liberals never have to question where the Democrats are on abortion, raising taxes or expanding government, so why should we never know if we can count on the GOP on gun control, illegal immigration and spending?

The road to recovery for the Republican Party starts with proving that it will fight aggressively for the principles it claims to believe in as opposed to being talking big and never backing it up. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee get that. If more Republicans in DC understood that, the GOP wouldn’t have lost the last presidential election because a few million members of its base stayed home.


70 posted on 10/15/2013 4:37:16 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Boycott Reno & Las Vegas until those in control there, remove Reid from the senate!)
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To: austinaero

LOL!


71 posted on 10/15/2013 4:52:43 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: LibFreeUSA

POK


72 posted on 10/15/2013 5:44:04 PM PDT by duffee (NO poll tax, NO tax on firearms, ammunition or gun safes. NO gun free zones.)
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To: SoConPubbie
“We as Republicans . . . "

There's King's first falsehood.

73 posted on 10/15/2013 5:57:43 PM PDT by rhema ("Break the conventions; keep the commandments." -- G. K. Chesterton)
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To: SoConPubbie

74 posted on 10/15/2013 7:56:44 PM PDT by Route395
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To: SoConPubbie

King has been upset with Cruz since he didn’t vote on SANDY relief.
Cruz had reservations because of the PORK in the bill, not over the relief.
If King were a TRUE conservative, he could have actually written his own bill without the PORK, but, NO, he chose to slam CRUZ INSTEAD!

Go CRUZ, Go!

KING should be ASHAMED!


75 posted on 10/15/2013 8:09:04 PM PDT by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free....)
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To: SoConPubbie

Is the Quisling running for anything? Can he be primaried? He makes me sick.


76 posted on 10/16/2013 7:05:25 AM PDT by madison10
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To: LibFreeUSA

If it weren’t for the re-election of Tea Party governor Paul LePage in 2014 I wouldn’t have to even go and vote. I’m not voting for Susan Collins.


77 posted on 10/16/2013 7:08:30 AM PDT by tsowellfan (www.cafenetamerica.com)
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To: SoConPubbie
Instead of going DemocRAT Peter King decided to destroy the party before he leaves to ensure
a substantial power placement in the Party of current opposition.
78 posted on 10/16/2013 7:42:13 AM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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