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How Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn busted Ted Cruz’s Obamacare bubble (Playing politics)
The Washington Post ^ | September 24, 2013 | Sean Sullivan,

Posted on 09/24/2013 9:09:58 AM PDT by yoe

The top two Republicans in the Senate made clear Monday they will not join Cruz’s call for a filibuster of a government funding bill that cleared the House last week. Their decisions signaled that the fiery freshman’s plan isn’t good politics even for Republicans facing conservative primary threats and reinforced a widely held view that it won’t work in practice.

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Ted Cruz is fighting for our Constitution and our blessed freedom NOT to have some Socialist bill rammed down our collective throats...as Nancy Pelosi did to the congress. Ted Cruz has read the 2011 page bill...congress for the most part did not and have not. McConnell and Cornyn, long in the tooth are playing Washington games while Ted Cruz the junior Senator from Texas is courageously trying to stamp out the Obamacare Flames before that mess devours our nation....Obamacare is not Constitutional regardless of what the political Justice Roberts twisted it, nor is it viable for a free society...Cruz understands how toxic Obamacare is to our Constitution and is not playing politics Washington style....Cruz is trying to resuscitate our wounded United States Constitution...Obamacare tramples that document...Help Ted Cruz...call his office...don't let this propaganda by the RINO's stand...interesting how the media will publish anything that HURTS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND CONSERVATIVES.... the old guard Senators are playing right into the MSM's hands!
1 posted on 09/24/2013 9:09:58 AM PDT by yoe
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To: yoe

You, my friend, are right on target!!! Please help us to get as many good American folks as possible...from all walks of life.....to sign & endorse the Lee/Cruz Petition to defund Obamacare...right now!!! Action is needed by millions of Americans, immediately!!! Senator MCconnell and John Cornyn are nught but Obamabots dressed in RINO uniforms!!! Throw them out of office, traitors that they are!!

(WWW.DONTFUNDOBAMACARE.COM) SIGN & ENDORSE....TODAY!!!


2 posted on 09/24/2013 9:16:18 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!)
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To: yoe

I’ve already written to corncob and told him I will actively support anyone who runs against him. For a Texan to turn on a Texan is a sign that John boy needs to be primaried and done away with. He represents the establishment, not for what is good for the people.


3 posted on 09/24/2013 9:20:08 AM PDT by Farnsworth ("The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no)
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To: yoe

CR is not passed into law yet.


4 posted on 09/24/2013 9:20:09 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: yoe

In case anyone is wondering why Obama is President, you can look to a-holes like McConnell and Cornyn , Graham and McCain, and other RINO’s who selected Romneycare Romney and then left Romney on his own.

Not pone of them really backed Romney, he was on his own and then he just dropped the ball after the first debate.


5 posted on 09/24/2013 9:21:41 AM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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To: yoe

McConnell and Cornyn need to be removed in this election. If not in the primary, stay home in the general. Enough of the defeatist leadership.


6 posted on 09/24/2013 9:21:59 AM PDT by ilgipper (Obama is proving that very bad ideas can be wrapped up in pretty words)
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To: yoe

CITIZENS OF THE REPUBLIC IT IS TIME TO DO A RECALL

Those born 20 years ago have never seen this film clip.Of the four passenger helicopter already overloaded with eight just barely lifting off its roof top heli-pad. Attached to its steel tube runner type landing gear below the fuselage were about a dozen more desperate people clinging to the gear . As the craft struggles to get airborne. it lurches skyward as one of those clinging to the steel tubes used as landing gear lets go. Falling to a death some 35 feet down to the refugee crowded lamding pad atop the Saigon American Embassy roof..

They were fleeing South Viet Nam because American support was withdrawn and denied .leaving its army running out of ammo and conviction. Sold out by an American congress controled ironically by Democrats that.decided to shed its support for a democratic form of government to what became a US ward for a socialist/communist replacement . It was a harbinger of what that political party will bring to the US 50 years later.

Because of Obamacare most recalling of defunding\ governemnt shutdowns simply goes back to Gingrich’s time when he was Speaker. This earlier defunding/ government shutdown had profound implications where hundreds of thousands died because of it. Like the constitutional constrains on central government. That abandonment of Viet Nam is hardly if ever mentioned or discussed in classrooms despite American humiliation could be demonstrated in that film clip described in this articles lead paragraph.. Because it was created by the Democrat party responding to the socialist/communist radicals that had taken over the “liberal arts eduicational industry” and were slowly taking that party over as well..

Not only did we lose a war because of it. But those same university socialist educators which encouraged this defunding , and dis-honoring the of the 58,000 deaths of our military. Also encouraged their charges to use humiliation such as calling retuning servicemen “baby killers” (only later to kill their own) and spitting in their faces. Their educational products are now on their own, borrowing a military term, R&R . Running and Ruining destroying this country . For this time the same group are now in control of that political party.

Changing it so much that in their 2012 convention booed any reference to “The Creator” ,God.. Demonstrating that any connection to the political party of JFK is gone. They are Democrat in name only and really Demo-Coms.. A term their present political opposition would choke on repeating . For the Republicans are.unable even to use the milder epithet “socialist”. The DCs are now demanding funding for a cherished socialist concept replete with 2000 pages of controls for the health collective. Controls which includes newly created bureaucracies for enforcement some under the direct control of the President .

Controls that:; Put thousands out of a 40 work week and reduced them to part time employees, Shut down physician hospitals, confiscated union health plans. prohibited private contracts with individual doctors, replaced medical specialists with socialist bureaucrats (death panels) Shut down medical insurance companies, or doubled the cost of health plans for starters...Yet not a word of this will be mentioned.by the complicit media apararatzicks running major visual media outlets.

For there is another example of the damage the aparatzicks did and will continue to do until challanged. Expect a continuing of the racism charge. OK ! Let’s see who started that ? It really began with the President of The United States implying an attacker was a “victim”. of a security guard doing his job when shot and killed by the guard defending himself..There seems to be a number of socialist agendas cited as Obama’s reasoning for doing this. One of which is living in collectives. However on Obama’s cue the propaganda arm swung into action with drastic results..

The guard a big Obama supporter was an “hispanic” who is part black with a last name which is “jewish” .Who’s doing surveilance in a posted private mixed race area of modest means experiencing robberies and burgalries by young blacks. Being such it’s legal to question anyone of blue, red, green,white, or black complexion as to their purpose being there. In this security guard situation he discontinued a surveilance after being suggested to do so by the police.The guard could have legally questioned the person under surveilance but instead allowed him to continue on his way uncontested. Only to have that person under surveilance as the guard was returning to his vehicle. knock the guard to the ground start beating his head against the sidewalk and wind up getting killed over a struggle the guards gun

Now consider all those congressional investigations going on. If somebody even suggests impeachment. Get to your black base voters, whom you’ve done nothing for, all worked up.

Pick on some security guard who’s doing his job and make him expendable. Time to employ propaganda devices. Emphasize that white jews last name! . Call that surveilance “stalking”!, The area he’s patrolling “public access” area not gated “owned by rich whitieys”,never mention the guard is part african and dark skinned.. Depict that person he’s watching a 10 year old black kid (show picture) a “victim” and a saint. Not a six foot 160 pound 16 year old, “who was killed in cold blood” and not who was killed fighting over a gun..The episode was given the full hyperbolic treatment which lasted for months and the results are clear..

Since this barrage of propaganda black youths have been using these devices as their excuse even citing the “victims” first name Innocent whites, hispanics and asiains being murdered because of the inflamatory rhetoric composed of lies and missconceptions being driven by the regime and its supporters in the media begun by the President of the United States.. Obama never disassociated himself from it, nor discouraged it.and the reasoning behind it ?

Well, by painting a target on that security guards back he has geared up his black base .Ain’t that neat ? What better way to discourage any investigation into malfeasance and corruption by organizing the base for riots in the streets ? Think it’s too far fetched ? Think it’s not working ? Look again http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3051558/posts

To date the political opposition known as Republican has yet to mention or comment on these examples of how this regime operates. Time to demand that they behave like political opposition or leave the rostrum !
Now is the time not to ask but demand...


7 posted on 09/24/2013 9:22:12 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause.Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: yoe

I perceive Cruz to be a pretty smart cookie. I believe that when he takes a political course of action, he is a bit like a chess master working out the likely “best case / worst case” scenarios if he makes a particular move and chooses a particular battle. I also believe he has heard the phrase, “choose your battles”.

In that context, I find it interesting, and kinda exciting, that he chose this one.

Oh, and McConnell is my senator. For now.


8 posted on 09/24/2013 9:22:44 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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How Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn busted Ted Cruz’s Obamacare bubble (Playing politics)

What kind of payoffs are McConnell and Cornyn getting form the antiCHRIST 0bama?

I don't know when these clowns have to run again, but I've heard that "paybacks are a bitch"!

9 posted on 09/24/2013 9:24:07 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Muzzie killing muzzie what's the downside and who am I to stop them ?)
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Amen, all those not against Obamacare and big government need to be targeted and primaried in both the Democrat and Republican parties.
10 posted on 09/24/2013 9:24:21 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: yoe

McConnell/Cornyn. What is different in them from any socialist/Marxist/Democrat on this vote and the outcome?

Cornyn IS NOT SUBJECTED TO Obamacare, but subjects us to it. Tyrants do that.


11 posted on 09/24/2013 9:25:05 AM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: cuban leaf

It’s clear to me that Boehner should be defeated, preferably in a primary but by voting for the Democrat if necessary.

Voting for a Democrat in KY for a six-year term is a harder sell. Hope you can chase him before November.


12 posted on 09/24/2013 9:26:54 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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Thankfully Cruz is my Senator. Corncob I think is up for re-election, so I guess if he gets an opponant, he/she will get some of my money


13 posted on 09/24/2013 9:26:55 AM PDT by Farnsworth ("The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no)
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Gotta look into the backgrounds.

http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00003389&cycle=2014

http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00024852&cycle=2014

We need to find out who their chiefs of staff are and what their games are.


14 posted on 09/24/2013 9:27:40 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Jim Noble

Voting for a Democrat in KY for a six-year term is a harder sell. Hope you can chase him before November.


The good news is that just as a republican can be a liberal in the northeast, around here a democrat can be a conservative. But it becomes less likely with each passing year.


15 posted on 09/24/2013 9:30:39 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: yoe

Retire these GOP/e B@$@$T$; don't show any respect for their previous actions..deeds.

16 posted on 09/24/2013 9:32:55 AM 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: Farnsworth
No kidding.

IMO grass roots on all sides needs to go after both the Dem and Repub candidates in the primaries.

I find it hard to believe that even American Democrats in many cases are not sick of this giant government and soft dictatorship.

There are conservatives in both parties and IMO there needs to be hard pushes everywhere to remove the turds with real people who truly what the best for our country in practical ways with no affiliation to the Washington establishment or big government unions.

17 posted on 09/24/2013 9:34:14 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: yoe

“How Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn busted Ted Cruz’s Obamacare bubble (Playing politics)”

Fixed it

How Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn busted Republican Voter’s bubble that the party has a spine.(Being themselves)


18 posted on 09/24/2013 9:34:19 AM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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To: yoe

GOP -> RIP


19 posted on 09/24/2013 9:34:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: yoe
Their decisions signaled that the fiery freshman’s plan isn’t good politics even for Republicans facing conservative primary threats and reinforced a widely held view that it won’t work in practice.

No, that's wrong. Their decisions signaled they don't realize the arguments have changed, and they're on the way to extinction. 2014 may end up being a pretty bad year for Republicans, and that failure is going to lead to a whole bunch of rolling heads. Let's hope the bloodletting is over in time for 2016, but I'm not hopeful.

20 posted on 09/24/2013 9:43:37 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (It's hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.)
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