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1 posted on 02/13/2018 4:52:12 AM PST by iowamark
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Senator Cruz’s solitary objection gives voice to the thousands of voters who believed what they were told on the campaign trails of 2016.
2 posted on 02/13/2018 4:52:49 AM PST by iowamark
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To those of you who still hate Ted. He’s the only one who’s standing up for the one thing Trump promised and is now wobbling on. Both parties will get their nanny’s, cheap labor, and voters to stay in this country.


3 posted on 02/13/2018 4:55:53 AM PST by lucky american (Progressives are attac Iking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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I’d be okay with the debate if it were only Kabuki theater leading nowhere. I want all illegals deported. No exceptions. However, the debate will be disingenuous and will shape public perceptions. Even though the House will rightfully ignore anything that comes out of the Senate, publicizing and quoting this debate will hurt America.

I have serious problems with a small number of things Ted Cruz has said or done, but he’s right on many issues, including this one. I hope our side will be careful as they step into this quagmire. I also hope President Trump will quickly ramp up the deportations of all illegals other than these sympathetic and coddled DACA criminals.


6 posted on 02/13/2018 5:02:33 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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If Trump does not get full apppropriation for a border WALL he is a one termer (or less). No amnesty with a promise of future GOP desires(already tried by Reagan) and no down payment only - appropriations will never be forthcoming.

I for one will not be participating in any future national election if this goes down the way it is shaping up IMHO. Peelousy and Schumckie are still running the District of Corruption - there are not enough of us left (born early8 1940s).




7 posted on 02/13/2018 5:02:50 AM PST by Cheerio (#44, The unknown President)
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Cruz may not have figured out he ain’t gonna be President. Standing on principle is nice gesture but reality is what it is and he’s posturing much as Linda Graham has been of late.


13 posted on 02/13/2018 5:21:39 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...;-})
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“Whoever gets to 60 wins,” Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, told reporters last week. “And it will be an opportunity for 1,000 flowers to bloom.”


Amorphophallus titanum

Amorphophallus titanum, also known as the titan arum, is a flowering plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world. The titan arum's inflorescence is not as large as that of the talipot palm, Corypha umbraculifera, but the inflorescence of the talipot palm is branched rather than unbranched.

Due to its odor, which is like the smell of a rotting corpse or carcass, the titan arum is characterized as a carrion flower, and is also known as the corpse flower, or corpse plant (Indonesian: bunga bangkai – bunga means flower, while bangkai can be translated as corpse, cadaver, or carrion).

14 posted on 02/13/2018 5:22:54 AM PST by COBOL2Java (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen)
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Any so called DACA deal is going to pi$$ off somebody. Get used to it. It is how senate sausage is made.


16 posted on 02/13/2018 5:37:47 AM PST by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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Trump says “Amnesty Yes!” Get on board, little children, get on board.


17 posted on 02/13/2018 5:42:16 AM PST by babble-on
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While you all are whining about what the Senate MIGHT do, you keep forgetting the big guy in the WH has said....no wall, end chain migration, end the lottery.......or NO DACA.

Anything less is a veto. All he has to do is wave that pen or even a blunt hint about a veto.

If not....he's done in 2020. He knows that, too.

18 posted on 02/13/2018 5:42:43 AM PST by Wizdum (Buckle up! It's going to be one hell of a ride.)
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Shame people can’t see Cruz is using this to create a wedge.
I am sure he still thinks he can win.

Delusional he is.


20 posted on 02/13/2018 5:44:44 AM PST by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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We have just 4 Senators that are on the side of the citizens and the rule of law.
Cotton, Cruz, Grassley and Perdue.
That’s it.

We need new Senators.

Flake, Corker, Hatch, Heller, Alexander, Graham, McCain, Murkowsky, Hoeven, Rubio, Tillis, Burr, Lankford, Gardner, Cornyn, Cochran, Collins, Sasse, Kennedy, Shelby, Ernst, Blunt, McConnell, Wicker, Portman, Isakson, Johnson, Toomey, Rounds, Thune, Barasso and Enzi are all Bush League Republicans. Basically undocumented Democrats in R jerseys.


28 posted on 02/13/2018 6:39:13 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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I don’t see a DACA bill passing the Senate. If passed Trump will never sign and there are not votes to override a veto. So don’t worry about it.


33 posted on 02/13/2018 8:22:59 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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Cruz was allowed to grandstand on this to shore up his sorely damaged image on this particular issue, damaged due to his Presidential run. If you think it’s anything more than that, you’re naive.


47 posted on 02/13/2018 2:38:35 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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