Posted on 09/25/2013 8:22:39 AM PDT by Tenacious 1
Republicans want him to shut up and get out of the way so Harry Reid can strip the defunding ammendment from the bill and everyone can go back to patting each other on the back and stealing from the taxpayers.
It is upstarts like Cruz who upset the democrats, costing the RINOs to lose out on invitations to the best dinners and parties in DC.
By some rule that I don't understand, he has to quit at some point so Harry can call for a vote.
The backslapping has had a post mort em. When the BO care bills come in the parties will be over. They’re dopes to not see that now
Senator Cruz, I am humbled and greatful for your dedication to Traditional American Values.
He isn’t technically filibustering.
That’s because the bill had not yet been officially introduced, or something like that. Because it’s technically not a filibuster on a bill, the rules make him stop when Reid takes the floor to call for a vote to proceed on the bill. BTW, this vote is not the cloture vote to shut down debate on the bill. It is preliminary to that. It’s just a vote to start on this bill.
Roughly, this is why Reid can stop him and he can’t continue when Reid does.
and McCain wants to speak now at the request of dingy Harry.
As a known exercise in futility, I felt I should call the offices of my California State(ist) ideologue Senators, Boxer and Feinstein. Boxer's voicemail took a message, but Feinstein's phone just rang and rang.
It would appear that the next phone campaign would be to urge all the House Republicans to stay strong, particularly John Boehner, and not send anything back to the Senate that doesn't have the defund Obamacare clause attached to it.
No matter what happens, Republicans will get blamed for the result anyway, so why not actually accomplish something?
I watched Ted Cruz during his valiant effort to halt the disaster called Obamacare. I hope you watched it as well. If he has used it once, he used the phrase “...we no longer listen to the people, our constituents...” over a hundred times. And he was right...they don’t. And the fact is, THEY NO LONGER NEED TO.
I’ve sent my little rant on this topic before but Ted’s honest comment compels me to do so again.
Dick Bachert
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WHY THE POLITICAL RULING CLASS NO LONGER LISTENS TO US!
Among others, Thomas Jefferson warned that the financial disaster we now face would be but one of many problems paper money would visit upon us if we allowed our “leaders” to remove the backing from the currency, to wit:
“When the servants if the people are paid with something other than that which the people themselves have produced (i.e. the real, tangible products of their labors or some fixed and real medium of that exchange), the roles of master and servant will be reversed.”
It was believed by Roger Sherman and a majority of those at the Constitutional Convention that un-backed currency would so damage the fabric of the nation that they ATTEMPTED to prohibit it with these few words at Article 1, Section 10, requiring the states to enforce the prohibition: “No State shall…make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts;”
If the people and their states grew inattentive to this matter (and they have!), Jefferson also saw this problem ahead:
In a letter to John Taylor in 1816, he wrote, “And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
We have been “…swindling futurity…” for a long time and this is now where we find ourselves. If the government, through its banker masters at the Federal Reserve, can create “money” from thin air, they certainly don’t need ours every April 15th. That annual sheep shearing is simply an attempt to vacuum enough of the excess paper from the system to keep the rest of us from catching on to the biggest theft ring in the history of man. They have now created so much that their attempt is failing and failing badly to a point where all but the dullest among us (Obama voters and his growing cadres of personal and corporate welfare beneficiaries) are starting to “get it.”
If you understood that last paragraph, you can now make the small leap to an understanding as to why the “progressive” utopian welfare state hacks in Washington don’t give a damn WHAT you think. Their power to create all the “money” they need to fuel their infernal machine and fill the gaping maws of enough of those hoards of welfare constituents to assure their perpetual re-election means that — ready — THEY NO LONGER NEED YOU! They have become, as Mr. Jefferson predicted, our MASTERS.
That they are taking down a nation and a system that has provided more wealth, safety and abundance to more people than any other in history matters not to them. Failing to grasp the lesson of the French Revolution, they believe themselves to be above the impending disaster.
We’re running out of time to get this increasingly rapacious beast back into the cage from which we have carelessly allowed it to escape.
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