Posted on 08/22/2013 2:11:52 PM PDT by Delacon
Do you remember a guy named Newt?
What? You think the media is going to love the GOP and say nice things if they don't shut down the government?
I'd say the GOP-E is doing a pretty good job of destroying itself. And I, for one, will be glad to see it go.
/johnny
Please notice that NOWHERE does Cruz or any supporters say ANYTHING about shutting the government down.
In fact they says emphatically to FUND every aspect of the gov’t but obamacare.
Yet every Dem . some Repubs and all MSM keep repeating that Sentor Cruz and the others want to shut government down.
I want to choke everyone who does such shoddy reporting
Ted Cruz is residing rent free in the heads of WaPo writers that much is for sure.
Those who wish to preserve our present institutions are “far-right-leaning activists.” Presumably, those who want to “fundamentally transform America” are “moderates” and “pragmatists.”
Who did more to change the country in a positive direction? Barry Goldwater or Nelson Rockefeller? Jesse Helms or Bob Dole? Ronald Reagan or Gerald Ford?
Everybody remembers the former examples. Almost nobody remembers the later examples. Why do you suppose that is?
You've got it wrong, it's because of the kind of timidity the GOP offers that it's in trouble, not because of those who want to fight for conservative principle.
LOL! I guess it all comes down to how someone feels about the 'Republican Party', now doesn't it?
The defunding of Obamacare is an issue supported by the people, a poll released today shows support for Obamacare is down to 41%. The election will be fought on one issue or another and I cannot think of a more favorable issue than the defunding of Obamacare.
In Cruz the cause has an articulate, charismatic, and attractive advocate with certified debating skills. Would we rather go into the 2016 campaign fighting a defensive skirmish over some triviality led by the likes of Mitch McConnell or fighting an affirmative fight on the issue of defunding Obamacare led by Cruz and supported by Paul and Lee?
If McConnell and Boehner fail to support the campaign to defund Obamacare as it now appears inevitable, a split in the party appears to be equally inevitable. I doubt the established Leaders of the Republican Party in Washington are fully aware of the simmering discontent in flyover country. They are playing rope a dope while they're losing their entire base.
Cruz isn’t NBC. He needs to own-up to it.
My assumption and my understanding is that if you are born of American parents, you are naturally a natural-born American citizen, Chertoff replied. That is mine, too, said Leahy.
By the way, Senator Obama signed SR 511 as well, but SR 511 was to cloud the issues with McCain's being born on territory, the Canal Zone, upon which jurisdiction Congress had not yet voted, and didn't until 1937, the year after McCain was born. McCain needed an amendment, which Senator Obama and Senator McCaskill, Obama's presidential campaign co-chair tried to fix with Senate Bill 2678. the Children of Military Families Natural Born Citizen Act, in February 2008. SB 2678 failed so the Obama campaign went for a resolution, 511, which disqualifies Cruz if we believe the entire Senate agreed with what they signed.
/johnny
There you go again. He says he is. He explains why. You want him to LIE against his own beliefs.
Nutty.
Natural born = citizen by birth. Naturalized = citizen by naturalization process. According to the established position of Ted Cruz. That’s it, that’s all, and nattering nabobs of negativism demanding that he LIE against his own beliefs will forever FAIL.
Jefferson and Madison; continental common law.
TXR:
You are assigning the LIE to the founders, not Cruz.
I doubt the established Leaders of the Republican Party in Washington are fully aware of the simmering discontent in flyover country. They are playing rope a dope while they're losing their entire base.
I don't mean to start an argument with you, nathanbedford, but I've got a hunch the self-styled "leaders" of the Republican part of Washington, D.C. are fully aware we voters are deeply unhappy with their performance. I think they've convinced one another they can finesse us: reshape the situation, talk us into seeing things their way, persuade us to accept the oft-proclaimed "reasonable compromise," et cetera.
They think they're our rulers. They need to be fired en masse.
/johnny
Among the first pieces of legislation passed by the new Congress under Gingrich was the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995, which subjected members of Congress to the same laws that apply to businesses and their employees.
In August 1996 he got time limits placed on welfare assistance, stricter conditions for food stamp eligibility, reductions in immigrant welfare assistance, and work requirements for recipients.
In 1997 he got the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, which included the largest capital gains tax cut in U.S. history.
In 1999 he forced Clinton to submit a balanced budget, making it the first time the federal budget had been balanced since 1969.
He made Republicans promises and fought to keep them. Newt fought like a man. Sure it took a 28 day government shutdown, and a lot of bad press but there was a time Republicans weren't scared sh!tless by morons like Candy Crowly or Rachel Maddow.
Agreed
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