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Obama Bites Tongue as Cruz Confronts Him at White House Meeting
NewsMax.com ^ | October 12, 2013 | Sandy Fitzgerald

Posted on 10/12/2013 11:32:53 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

Sen. Ted Cruz seized the opportunity afforded by a White House invitation to confront President Barack Obama over his healthcare plan.

Cruz said he appreciated the chance to go see the president — but then presented him with "substantial" changes for Obamacare.

In the meeting, also attended by dozens of other Republican senators, Cruz refrained from using the word "defund," reports Politico. Instead he told Obama that all sides need to "provide substantial relief to the millions of people who are hurting because of Obamacare, who are losing their jobs, being forced into part-time work and losing their health insurance."

Cruz said he told the president that a deal to reopen the government must also provide relief for those affected by the Affordable Care Act.

One participant at the gathering told The Dallas Morning News that Obama seemed to "bite his tongue," while Cruz was talking.

Cruz said Friday he's happy there are finally discussions being held.

"That is an improvement," he said. "There was an awful lot of talk, but then, at the end of the day, the president still said he wouldn't negotiate."

But while Cruz has been focused on defunding Obamacare, leading the charge on attacking the insurance program as a condition for reopening the government, he denied Friday he's responsible for the government shutdown, instead blaming Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

"I opposed the shutdown from Day One," insisted the Texas freshman senator, who has come under fire from senior Republican lawmakers, who say he is fighting against Obamacare without having a real strategy.

"I think it was wrong that President Obama and Harry Reid forced the shutdown," Cruz told reporters. "They forced the shutdown because they wouldn’t compromise on Obamacare."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Nevada; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: abortion; cruz; deathpanels; harryreid; nevada; obama; obamacare; shutdown; tedcruz; texas; zerocare
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To: laplata

“We should pray for the safety of Ted Cruz.”

That is exactly what I thought when I heard him at that gathering and there were hecklers in the room and they were removed. I thought his life is in danger, walking and talking there on that stage with not even a podium in front of him and telling it like it is. I fear for his life.


61 posted on 10/12/2013 12:45:30 PM PDT by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: skinkinthegrass

Exactly. Obama versus Cruz is like bringing a Twinkie to a pie fight.


62 posted on 10/12/2013 12:48:16 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: itssme

News just said Obama is now in Hawaii playing golf.

Must be nice to take another vacation when the government is shut down over his insistence on making the poor even more poor and the middle class destitute insofar as he is able.

Even though Monday was originally posted as a federal holiday, during the shutdown, no holidays are supposed to be recognized,....I guess except for those who are considered above the law.


63 posted on 10/12/2013 12:48:17 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Don Corleone

Of course it is...evil entrenched will kill before admitting wrong. That is why we have had war throughout human history.


64 posted on 10/12/2013 12:50:13 PM PDT by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo in laughter")
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To: Marcella

Obama and his minions are as evil as any who have ever lived on planet earth.


65 posted on 10/12/2013 12:53:03 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Pick a day, any day and make it known, shut down the Secret Service for 24 hours.

No Golf that day.


66 posted on 10/12/2013 12:53:55 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (dont worry about Mexico, put the fence around kalifornia.)
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To: laplata

I have thought this same thing, and am praying for his and Mike Lee’s safety.


67 posted on 10/12/2013 12:55:04 PM PDT by Humal
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To: laplata
“Obama and his minions are as evil as any who have ever lived on planet earth.”

He is the Hitler of our time and it took a world war to stop Hitler. I think Hussein, unknown to him, is a minion of Satan, setting the stage for the last days and they are here.

68 posted on 10/12/2013 12:56:45 PM PDT by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: Cvengr

News just said Obama is now in Hawaii playing golf.


I don’t believe it.


69 posted on 10/12/2013 12:57:07 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: SoConPubbie

He was biting his tongue so he wouldn’t reveal that he has the same understanding of the deathcare plan as his voters.

I was just thinking, shouldn’t the GOP explain to the young adults that the reason tuition has gone up is because of gov’t grants and loans and the same will happen with healthcare? They might understand it that way.


70 posted on 10/12/2013 12:59:25 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Marcella
He is the Hitler of our time and it took a world war to stop Hitler. I think Hussein, unknown to him, is a minion of Satan, setting the stage for the last days and they are here.

Oh, I doubt anything is unknown to him.

When we choose evil, we know we have chosen evil.

God is faithful that way, he leaves none of us without an excuse.
71 posted on 10/12/2013 12:59:30 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Marcella

I think Hussein, unknown to him, is a minion of Satan, setting the stage for the last days and they are here.


He’s putting everything in place for the anti-Christ to come on the scene.

I think he accepts his evilness because he is against all that is good, which America was founded upon. He’s Demonically controlled.


72 posted on 10/12/2013 1:01:03 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: SoConPubbie

BO watched the Values Summit and knew the senator would clean his clock!


73 posted on 10/12/2013 1:01:44 PM PDT by jch10 ("Normandy was closed when we got there too!")
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To: huldah1776
I was just thinking, shouldn’t the GOP explain to the young adults that the reason tuition has gone up is because of gov’t grants and loans and the same will happen with healthcare? They might understand it that way.

Don't expect the GOP to communicate anything.

Being the cowards that they are, they will spend the rest of Obama's term doing symbolic gestures that are meaningless thinking that will somehow keep the base on their side(incumbents) during the next election cycle.

Furthermore, man of them aren't just cowards, they are collaborators.
74 posted on 10/12/2013 1:01:53 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Marcella; laplata
“We should pray for the safety of Ted Cruz.”
That is exactly what I thought when I heard
him at that gathering and there were hecklers
in the room and they were removed.
They wouldn't dare; that would (absolutely) be the...
(we're not Mexico, Yet!)
worst thing pResident 0'BlahBlah's allies could do.
but..you can bet, they're dreamin' of it.

75 posted on 10/12/2013 1:03:58 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: MUDDOG

Winner. Ding, ding, ding. You nailed it.


76 posted on 10/12/2013 1:04:10 PM PDT by EverOnward
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To: bereanway

He bit his tongue because he is plotting revenge.


77 posted on 10/12/2013 1:04:36 PM PDT by Bluebird Singing
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To: SoConPubbie

Stick your finger in his eye, Ted! (Unless you’re afraid of getting AIDs or some other horrible disease.)


78 posted on 10/12/2013 1:04:59 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Exactly. Obama has chosen sides.


79 posted on 10/12/2013 1:08:59 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: skinkinthegrass

They will do whatever they can get away with.


80 posted on 10/12/2013 1:11:12 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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