Posted on 09/24/2013 12:16:55 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Sen. Ted Cruz began a filibuster Tuesday with the intent of defunding the Affordable Care Act, known also as Obamacare.
The Texas Republican noted while on the Senate floor, “I intend to speak about defunding ObamaCare until I am unable to stand.”
Cruz additionally asserted that Democrats are not listening to their constituents in regards to the health care law, which is set to take effect Oct. 1.
“I rise today in opposition to ObamaCare in an effort to speak for 26 million Texans and 300 million Americans,” Cruz asserted. “It is time quite frankly to make D.C. listen.”
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There are A LOT of empty chairs on the Hill.
They match up with the empty promises.
I don’t think he’s allowed to sit but your picture it’s a nice shot at the emptiness of this body.
McConnell and Cornyn should be unable to safely walk any street in America after what they’ve done.
Gutless wonders!
We sent our “We Are Praying for You” email this morning and have already gotten an acknowledgment from his office. That’s organization for you. Ted is The Man among mice.
Called both my Ga. senators’ DC offices, results as follows:
Chambliss - Voice mail. Aked me to leave a message for a call back, which I did.
Isakson - Voice mail. Left a very detailed message on why he should vote against cloture.
Cruz & Lee are shaming the RINOS!!!!
Yes, prayers for him are up.
Other preps to extend filibuster staying power?
As I compose this, I’m watching Ted Cruz as he filibusters to halt the disaster called Obamacare. I hope you will watch it as well.
If he has used it once, he’s used the phrase “...we no longer listen to the people, our constituents...” over a hundred times. And he’s right...they don’t. And the fact is, THEY NO LONGER NEED TO.
I’ve sent my little rant on this topic before but Ted’s honest comment compels me to do so again.
Dick Bachert
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WHY THE POLITICAL RULING CLASS NO LONGER LISTENS TO US!
Among others, Thomas Jefferson warned that the financial disaster we now face would be but one of many problems paper money would visit upon us if we allowed our “leaders” to remove the backing from the currency, to wit:
“When the servants if the people are paid with something other than that which the people themselves have produced (i.e. the real, tangible products of their labors or some fixed and real medium of that exchange), the roles of master and servant will be reversed.”
It was believed by Roger Sherman and a majority of those at the Constitutional Convention that un-backed currency would so damage the fabric of the nation that they ATTEMPTED to prohibit it with these few words at Article 1, Section 10, requiring the states to enforce the prohibition: “No State shall…make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts;”
If the people and their states grew inattentive to this matter (and they have!), Jefferson also saw this problem ahead:
In a letter to John Taylor in 1816, he wrote, “And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
We have been “…swindling futurity…” for a long time and this is now where we find ourselves. If the government, through its banker masters at the Federal Reserve, can create “money” from thin air, they certainly don’t need ours every April 15th. That annual sheep shearing is simply an attempt to vacuum enough of the excess paper from the system to keep the rest of us from catching on to the biggest theft ring in the history of man. They have now created so much that their attempt is failing and failing badly to a point where all but the dullest among us (Obama voters and his growing cadres of personal and corporate welfare beneficiaries) are starting to “get it.”
If you understood that last paragraph, you can now make the small leap to an understanding as to why the “progressive” utopian welfare state hacks in Washington don’t give a damn WHAT you think. Their power to create all the “money” they need to fuel their infernal machine and fill the gaping maws of enough of those hoards of welfare constituents to assure their perpetual re-election means that — ready — THEY NO LONGER NEED YOU! They have become, as Mr. Jefferson predicted, our MASTERS.
That they are taking down a nation and a system that has provided more wealth, safety and abundance to more people than any other in history matters not to them. Failing to grasp the lesson of the French Revolution, they believe themselves to be above the impending disaster.
We’re running out of time to get this increasingly rapacious beast back into the cage from which we have carelessly allowed it to escape.
You are right. I had forgotten about Lee; but he stood up in the nick of time. Cruz is amazing~!
you are right; that is a top credential in my book.
Can’t they “tag team” the filibuster from one to another? In other words, Paul, Lee, etc. can continue it when Cruz has to give it up. Under those circumstances, could Cruz come back after a rest while they carry the torch? I understand that could go on until 60 vote to shut it down.
He really should be fitted with a bladder catheter, forego any solid foods, and drink only Mountain Dew during his filibuster.
Sen. Vitter ( Louisianna)is there and maybe he will step up to the plate.
Senator Vitter (TN) stands with Cruz!
Sen. Vitter (LA) just asked a question re shoving things through - Cruz mentions “Cornhusker Kickbacks”.....
Also, wouldn’t it be appropriate for Patriots to start gathering outside to force coverage and show just how much support this has.
Signing a petition is one thing. 1.6 million citizens showing up in person is another.
Is anyone aware of any movement of Soverign Citizens to get off their butts?
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‘Representing 6 million Texans, unlike Cornyn. “
even factoring out the illegals we have more than 6 million
Where are the rest6 of his colleagues. Why aren’t they spelling him, Giving him a rest to come back?
COWARDS.
Can’t they ask a Veeeerrrrryyyyyy long question?
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