Posted on 09/21/2013 11:44:50 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
WASHINGTON Ted Cruz and Mike Lee stand as the Senates dynamic duo for conservatives, crusading against President Barack Obamas health care law while infuriating many congressional Republicans with a tactic they consider futile, self-serving and detrimental to the partys political hopes in 2014.
Cruz, the Texan whos been anything but a wait-your-turn freshman, and Lee, the tea party-backed giant slayer from Utahs 2010 election, spent months this summer pressuring Republicans to link any stopgap spending bill to keep the government running with permanently starving President Barack Obamas health overhaul of money.
The two former Supreme Court clerks are determined to reverse what the conservative court of Chief Justice John Roberts upheld in 2012 Obamas signature domestic law.
The senators scored a win Friday when the Republican-led House, pushed by rambunctious rank-and-file members, passed a spending measure that would unravel the law. But the approach faces near-certain defeat in the Democratic-controlled Senate, where lawmakers in both parties complain that Cruz and Lee have pushed a losing cause.
In the meantime, their strategy has roiled many in the GOP, with plenty of public and private carping. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, subtly challenged Cruz and Lee to back up their words next week.
I expect my Senate colleagues to be up for the battle, Boehner said.
Several Republicans complain that the tactic could lead to a government shutdown on Oct. 1, the start of the new budget year, that would undercut the GOP politically...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
“You are correct sir. The Democrat plants who infest the GOP today are the ones who are most infuriated with Ted Cruz.”
BINGO!!! That will be my response on every blog where someone wants to assert the GOP is infuriated with Cruz.....yes indeed.
Thank you!
Are we going to be a Socialist state?
Yes?
Or no?
Last chance to decide.
...I fear this is just more puppet theater.
There’ll be a last minute “Gang of idiots” with a “compromise” to save the precious Obamacare law....
Ironically, the federal employee unions might turn out to be Obamacare's worst enemies.
100% agree, Jim. But the media is going to go all-in on this. They will abandon any pretense of objectivity and will essentially release Democrat Party press releases, calling any of these tactics you suggest “stunts”. We will hear the word “stunt” in every single newscast.
It can be done but it will require a backbone, in other words constituents letting Republican House members hear it in no uncertain terms.
"I expect my Senate colleagues to be up for the battle," Boehner said.Thanks Jim Rob.
Check out this short audio by Mark Levin
4:10 Minutes
Mark Levin - Defunding Obamacare For Dummies! “IT IS NOT COMPLICATED”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isZn3dPNZ9Y
The idiot’s guide to de-funding Obamacare
Doesn’t it make you sick when the rinos on all the talking head shows start snickering and laughing as soon as the true conservatives start pointing out that they don’t want to shut down the government?
As for Roberts, real conservatives in congress should have started an investigation on him as soon as it became clear that he changed his vote. It’s so obvious he was blackmailed.
Excellent commentary by Levin, as always!
They have to work at it to not understand that government gets funded EXCEPT for ObamaCare, a program that most people don’t want.
Since we don’t HAVE ObamaCare yet, then no one will be hurt by it not being funded.
It is that simple. So, we know the Rino Heads who snicker understand it. The only logical conclusion is that they actually WANT ObamaCare, but just don’t have the guts to say so.
Yes Jane and we need to make their treason against us more painful than listening to their dimrat overlords complain about how Neanderthal we (their base) all are.
I signed up early on and I have been calling and emailing. I hope that it helps!
I signed the petition early on and have been using that list but I think that we need a FR list updated daily also.
On it... thanks much!
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