Posted on 09/25/2013 9:36:52 AM PDT by illiac
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, rose to speak on the Senate floor at 2:41 p.m. on Tuesday. He stood up in opposition to Obamacare, he said. And he said he would continue to speak until he could no longer stand.
By Wednesday morning, Cruz and some of his colleagues were still standing. He was cut off by a new day of Senate business at noon by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
It was not a filibuster. But it was a very, very long speech from the Texas senator who has been the center of attention in D.C.'s budget fight, and the Senate leader in a doomed-to-fail movement to strip funding for Obamacare out of any resolution that Congress passes to fund the government. If Congress fails to come to an agreement, the government will shutdown at the end of September.
Ted Cruz stood up to "make D.C. listen," he said repeatedly. "Washington depends on the American people not paying attention."
But what we heard during the duration of Sen. Cruz's speech was his view of how to be successful in modern American politics. And, in the reactions to his speech from members of his own party, we may get a sense of just how successful the ambitious senator can be.
Here's what you need to know from the 21 hours plus of speaking.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationaljournal.com ...
Cruz was NOT cut off! Thanks for playing, NR!
Never fear Ted Cruz is going to continue on Rush Limbaugh in a little while.
Ted Cruz doesn’t lose....ever.
G-d Bless Ted Cruz!
Ted Cruz may have nudged the AMERICAN GIANT, who in 7 Days may be at OPEN ENROLLMENT and BECOME NOT HAPPY!
Slimy scumbag Reid.
I can only cringe thinking what we would have gotten if Cruz had not won last November - a compliant, milquetoast RINO Dewhurst. White flags raised every day.
He is a snake in the grass. He plays the part of kindly little old grandfather. He’s the total opposite.
I’ve already seen mine. It went up by 30% and my employer is picking up 70% of that. So, that equates to about an extra grand per year over last year’s cost.
He will make your skin crawl.
Aren't you overjoyed at the loss of all that money? Aren't you just ready to Go on the Air and promote the Democratic Party and Profusely Praise President Obama for your losses. Don't you think Obamacare is Wonderful and Historic and better than NSA Snooping, Fast and Furous Gun running, IRS targeting, and EPAs War on Coal (and our economy)?
Or are you, and as many as possible, GOING TO DO THE TOTALLY OPPOSITE and Let them, and him, know personally how we feel?
Yes, he does. And did you hear him say that Cruz’s 21 hr was a waste of valuable Senate time? Bastard.
He wasn’t cut off. He voluntarily stopped talking. My god the press is incompetent.
Still. I really wish he had done this as a filibuster. I think this way was a mistake. A good mistake, but a mistake nonetheless.
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.
Right.
“Never fear Ted Cruz is going to continue on Rush Limbaugh in a little while.”
We’ve been listening. Darlin called Coburn’s office to tell him not to vote for cloture on obamacare as Ted requested, and his office clerk told him that Coburn and Cruz HAD voted for cloture. Something is not computing.
It's pretty close to that any way.
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