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Cruz's second shutdown play rankles fellow Republicans
Politico ^ | 9/10/15 | Burgess Everitt

Posted on 09/10/2015 9:24:42 AM PDT by VinL

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To: VinL

THANK GOD WE ELECTED LESSER EVIL TO STOP CRUZ FROM SAVING THE LIVES OF BABIES!!!!! THANK GOD!!!!!

It is so good that we have such delta make pragmatics among us. Imagine the sheer horror if we stood on the basic principle of life in our vote choices? My God where would planned barrenhood get money?

Fortunately we can count on freeper liberals to deliver all the votes Bhoner and Mitch need to assist Barry.


21 posted on 09/10/2015 9:55:24 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: VinL

Abortion is something these GOPe’rs campaign on like clockwork, but when Cruz actually pins them down on it, they have the gall to claim that he’s making the issue about himself, when they promised, and lied, to conservative voters to work on repealing, or at least nibbling away at it? Liars, the whole lot. But we already know that.


22 posted on 09/10/2015 9:55:44 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

delta make = delta MALE


23 posted on 09/10/2015 9:56:29 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Sgt_Schultze

All of Cruz’s detractors are playing politics for whomever they want running for POTUS or for spots on Senate committees.

The DC program MUST CHANGE. Now only Cruz and a few other GOP pols are willing to take that stand. I stand with Cruz!


24 posted on 09/10/2015 9:57:56 AM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: cripplecreek

The only hill the GOP is going to take a stand on is amnesty, we should know that by the fact that no matter how many times we shoot it down, they resurrect it. They will take that stand against conservatives, while dissimulatimg (lying) on why the time is not right (after decades) to take a stance on abortion, and they never even made a pretense of trying to stop sodomite mirage. They’ve blown their cover on CommieCare by funding it without even the hint of a struggle, and by the fact that all they had to do to show solidarity was to not take the exemption.

A pox on all of them, I hope they’re all around when the country starts to really implode and that they show the same oblivion they show now, so they’ll be sure to be here to partake in the implosion they caused. God above only knows how much I hate them, and hatred of evil and unrighteousness is sanctioned.


25 posted on 09/10/2015 10:01:25 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: VinL
So ... ceasing the government funding of PP's (sic) with the tax dollars of citizens vehemently opposed to the subhuman and illegal activities exposed by courageous whistleblowers ... is cynically called a second shutdown "play" ? to defame Ted Cruz as doing it as a crass political stunt?!

'Gutless collaborators' is too nice a term for Coats, Ayotte and McConnell, who stand with Kermit Gosnell and PP. This is collaboration with evil.

26 posted on 09/10/2015 10:07:16 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: VinL

Most of the Tea Party Senators were bought or blackmailed the first day they were in Washington if not before. I thought Cotton was a standout for his forthrightness until I heard him on Hannity. He speaks like a true political weasel. Cruz is still a forthright standup guy if you write off a couple of his votes as just bad judgment but if his judgment is that bad then he sure as hell shouldn’t be President. He would still make the necessary VP side of a pair that has Trump as President.


27 posted on 09/10/2015 10:09:01 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: VinL

PP violated federal law and numerous state laws. Many if not most of its directors and doctors and nurses should be sitting at defendants’ tables.


28 posted on 09/10/2015 10:10:19 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: GraceG

And, alas, Cruz contributed his vote to that capitulation.


29 posted on 09/10/2015 10:11:03 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: kcvl

She looks as if she has five o’clock shadow.


30 posted on 09/10/2015 10:13:07 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: mrsmel

The GOP has already thrown itself down that Amnesty Hill in funding Hussein’s seizure of Legislative power.


31 posted on 09/10/2015 10:15:06 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: VinL

Ted Cruz is playing hardball. They are playing tidily-winks.


32 posted on 09/10/2015 10:15:38 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: arthurus

Trump’s judgment is so much better.


33 posted on 09/10/2015 10:16:31 AM PDT by Maris Crane (()
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To: Norm Lenhart
“I don’t want to use a failed tactic for political purposes knowing that it’s not going to succeed,” said Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.)

Why is it a failed tactic? Simply because fellow republicans will not hold the line in the face of adversity. As far as soldiers go they are cowards who surrender before the first shot is fired. The lack discipline, courage and honor. Even with a majority in both houses and an issue that gives them the high ground, they wave the white flag. The Republicans care more about the station granted to them by the enemy after the surrender than in defending their countrymen. There is hardly a senator who will dig in and keep his position, they all retreat and allow the line to collapse, isolating the few that held their ground. Better to go to war with those who fought to the death than with those who sold you out for their own comforts.

There is a rebellion brewing against the GOPe, those who will not side with the cause of righteousness are siding with evil. Soon that may cost them dearly!

34 posted on 09/10/2015 10:16:40 AM PDT by DaveyB (Live free or die!)
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To: DaveyB

“failed tactic” , “not going to succeed.”

This from an idiot who is so dumb he can’t remember that failed tactic was followed by the biggest win in history for the republicans in the following election.

not going to succeed....glad to see the back of Coats’ head.


35 posted on 09/10/2015 10:22:09 AM PDT by Maris Crane (()
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To: VinL

They will really pile on after he threw down the gauntlet, naming names and calling “illegal acts” what they are. Telling the banks, if they break current law because Obama asks them to turn loose of the money, they can expect billions in costs defending themselves was one of my favorite parts. The new tone will be to scream how he, single-handedly, shut down the government because they are to venal to do their damn jobs.


36 posted on 09/10/2015 10:22:13 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: DaveyB

Unfortunately not until the second coming, at which point ‘America’ doesn’t matter a whit anyway. Because I have yet to see a single croup that calls itself conservative that is even willing to purge itself of the enemy within. Much less actually having done so.

If one can point to such I am genuinely interested in learning what group that is. I would be more interested in what lame excuses ‘conservatives’ have for their inaction on the matter as well.


37 posted on 09/10/2015 10:24:53 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: arthurus

There is no perfect man, much less a perfect conservative, and I would happily, enthusiastically vote for Ted Cruz. Even Reagan made mistakes, and I still wouldn’t take him back. He righted the ship of state for the short while he was captain, it just wasn’t enough to overcome Margaret Thatcher’s “ratchet effect”, well-named.


38 posted on 09/10/2015 10:25:53 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

You said a mouthful in your first sentence, I heartily agree. We’re seeing America’s slide into irrelevancy, now that we’ve done our part as purveyors of depravity around the globe (ie Hussein trying, though granted not very hard, as he won’t press fellow blacks, to blackmail African nations into sanctioning sodomy). If this is all America is going to be good for-spreading depravity-the sooner we slide into onlivion, the better.


39 posted on 09/10/2015 10:29:32 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: mrsmel

America ended the day the majority of the right chose pragmatism over conservative/constitutional governance by principled men. A ‘Pragmatic conservative is pretty much the unicorn a liberal constitutionalists is. No such animal possible. The DNA won’t form.

Just as the founders predicted, we destroyed ourselves. The bigger issue is that many are intent on going even further down the ‘pragmatic’ path that liberalized the GOP and killed us, while claiming the conservative mantle to do it.

Why would any fence sitter fall to our side when guys like Romney claim conservatism and 70 million ‘conservatives’ reinforce his assertion? Jeb? Same. He who cannot be criticized? Same. Those three have all the conservatism of Tip O’neil. Less in Mitt’s case. Probably Jeb as well.

We cut our own throat here. Not the dems. We did it.


40 posted on 09/10/2015 10:37:11 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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