Posted on 02/16/2014 5:17:40 AM PST by Kaslin
Yes Michigan has a surplus, no Rick Snyder is a progressive and doesn’t give money back.
I’m done voting for governors in presidential elections for a while.
Derek Hunter is the one in left field, he thinks Cruz is there to propose and pass more legislation...He is not, he is there to conserve, protect, and RESTORE the Constitution, he is working to RESTORE the republican party and return it to foundational principles, in lieu of a third party.
The republican party has a blown engine, the only way to fix it is to tear the engine down and get new parts with which to put it back together, Cruz is the mechanic.
"Cruz is a brilliant man, but that doesn’t make him a brilliant leader. "
Hunter thinks a brilliant leader, must be a compromiser, compromise is the weak traits of leadership that got us where we are now.
"What is the next move?"
Now Hunter complains Cruz has no strategy, well the strategy is once the engine is torn apart, to put it back together again (Hunters problem is he wants it to be more complicated). The Dems and the Rino's know that, it is why they fear him so. Besides you don't boast of strategy to the enemy.
Cruz is focused on the blown engine, he needs more mechanics to help, that is what he doing recruiting mechanics, and he is getting them slowly.
How did the Dems get to be so powerful, they stick together on their principles, perverted though they may be, it's worked.
I could go on and on about this article, and if you understand what Cruz is doing, you already know this article is total nonsense.
What is scary is there are more than a few freepers who buy into this crap, maybe because they trust the writer, but who knows what their agenda is.
Oh is this why the Rat votes in the Senate go mostly against the Republicans?
A GOP majority spending like drunken sailors is actually something that can be controlled, and a situation in which Cruz’ approach would actually be the right one. We’ve just got to get that majority in the first place!
Also, another thing on the “debt ceiling” debate: it’s purely symbolic, because every time we get near hitting it, there’ll be a flurry of activity and it gets extended or something happens to make it meaningless.
So in a lot of ways, it’s a waste of time and it’s just what everybody calls it, “Kabuki theater”. Time consuming, meaningless, and just for show.
More of the same crappy logic: we need more RINOs so we control the government and vote in our version of big government. The problem with that should be obvious: we are out of money. The Fed literally prints money and gives it to the politicians of both parties to spend. Ted Cruz is one of the few politicians pointing out the how the Fed is destroying the Main St economy: http://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=760
Yet, according to this writer, Ted doesn't have a plan. How about this plan: shut down the Federal government.
History has proven that to be false.
/johnny
“Principle is not a plan.
An excellent point. “
Actually, principle is a great plan when it means return to Constitutional Government and free people making their own decisions.
Now Obamacare is a plan, a huge monstrous mistake of a plan. I assume you are for it? Because after all, smart people have plans.
Okay, so I exaggerated. It still feels like that at times...
I agree with you. Spineless reps and senators doesn’t seem to have gotten us anywhere but deeper into this swamp of leftist pipedreams. Cruz is doing what is necessary, which is shine a light and watch the roaches scurry for a dark hole.
When the Commies decided to take over our political parties they went after both. They have been embedding their own people for close to 100 years, we have no choice but to do what Cruz is doing which identify and root them out.
I am from Ky and the only thing that gives me pause somewhat is I am seeing bumper stickers that say Obama ‘08 and ‘12 and a new one that says Ditch Mitch alongside. If the Democommies want McM out I have to wonder if he is doing a better job then I think. I don’t believe that he is but the enemy of my enemy is my friend comes into my mind.
IMHO we are too late. Voting out these people is impossible when they count the votes. I hope Cruz can do what he has set out to do, because the alternative is horrible. But personally I am ready for it, in my opinion it all comes down to basic math. How many of them for me is a fair trade?
Obama has no money to spend without it being appropriated in the Pub controlled House. The House could have passed individual appropriations, ignoring appropriations for Obamacare, the EPA, & a host of other socialist programs. The House could have refused to fund the IRS until Lois Lerner & Co. came clean. Same thing for the State Department re. Benghazi. If the Senate refuses to act on individual appropriations, then THEY are guilty of not funding the military & other essential functions of government.
The power of the purse is ultimate arbiter of what gets funded & what doesn't. With Boehner, the purse is always open, so the power of the purse is null & void. That is an abdication of power & responsibility. Going along with bad policy that is objected to by a clear majority of Americans is wrong.
I prefer to look at his goal as flushing out the RINOs so that we can cull the herd.
I don’t think Senators make as good a Presidential material as Governors.
Senators talk about stuff, Governors implement stuff. Both are important, but as a Midwestern hands on guy myself, I appreciate someone with real world experience over the theoretical.
Cruz would make a great President, I think Walker would make an even greater one who would accomplish much more for our side.
That plans are necessary to achieve a goal does not mean that any and all plans are wise.
I think people see and hear what they want.
And while an honest ballot box is infinitely preferable, that fourth one is no longer something over an unimaginable horizon.
“But although his goals are admirable and shared by conservatives across the country, he has no idea how to achieve them.”
Oh, yes, he does. A plan to be elected President in 2016. Everything the man does is focused on positioning himself to seize the republican nomination in 2016. Cruz knows he hasn’t a snow ball’s chance to enact any of his policies unless he becomes president.
Cruz is too smart to actually stop the raising of the debt ceiling. The consequences would have been too catastrophic and he would have been the one to take all the blame destroying his political career. This was a clever opportunity to show how conservative he was knowing the rest of the caucus would keep him from doing something really stupid.
Yes, we do, including you.
Why the hostility? Aren’t we on the same side?
What people keep forgetting is the way our Constitution was constructed. It is designed to make preventing action much easier than implementing it.
To reverse the present highly negative trends in American society and politics, it is therefore necessary to control a a majority in both houses of Congress, as well as the presidency. By which I mean majorities that are not just Republican, but are actually conservative.
To accomplish this requires a sea-change in the hearts and minds of Americans. Focusing on an election or even a series of elections puts the cart before the horse.
The cart is the election, the horse is the ongoing deterioration of American society and culture.
I don’t care if the ComDems “negotiate”. I am interested in what it takes to “Prosecute” the ComDems.
You see hostility and I’ll leave it at that.
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