Posted on 09/25/2013 9:23:17 AM PDT by jimbo123
As Ted Cruz continued to hold the Senate floor, his senior GOP colleague from Texas was calling in to local radio stations expressing general support for the effort while noting a significant tactical disagreement.
“Ted’s been a great addition to the United States Senate,” Sen. John Cornyn said on KTSA. “He and I were dove hunting in Hondo this weekend together and we both agree that we need to defund and delay and defeat Obamacare to protect the American people.”
But Cornyn, the Republican whip, is in the camp along with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., that plans to support limiting debate on the underlying House-passed continuing resolution, since that measure itself would block funding for the 2010 health care law that Cruz and other senators have spent all night speaking against on the Senate floor.
“I can’t see voting against that bill, which is what we’ve been asking for — for the last six months,” Cornyn said.
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Cornyn is just a liar.
Cornyn. If you have a better idea, we’re all ears.
You have to know when to hold and when to fold...any GOP that votes for CLOTURE folded as TED cruz said yesterday...well thats not quite the way he said it he was talking bout raising in poker...but point is..they are either RINOS or E -GOP if you vote for cloture.
I watched Ted Cruz during his valiant effort to halt the disaster called Obamacare. I hope you watched it as well. If he has used it once, he used the phrase “...we no longer listen to the people, our constituents...” over a hundred times. And he was 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.
Heard that Rand Paul is voting for cloture? read it on facebook. Anyone know or have a link?
I hope it is so.
I read Paul was voting against cloture.
You’re right. All I ever get in return is his newsletter filled wit
h nothing but mushy craps. Been writing him since we moved down here to Corpus in May. If I said what I’d like to do to him, I’d be on my way to Leavenworth tomorrow
Me, too. I’ve called his office to thank Rep Gohmert for staying all night with Cruz and Lee — and slipped in the “he needs to run against Cornyn” request!
Do you have a link? Or are you winging it?
Same thing I said. Once Cornyn casts a yea vote on cloture, I will be making my first contribution to his primary opponent.
Cornyn is history. Primary his azz and send him home!
No, I am trying to find out if it is a rumor or true. Read on Facebook that Paul will vote for cloture
2014 I believe and there are only 2 also-rans signed up at the moment
Wonder which way most of the people who voted for him would vote?
...........well sir, the filing deadline for Cornyn to be primaried is December 9 !!!
............who’s gonna run against him?
............IF I could, I sure as hell would! I do know one guy that might be willing but it would be a huge paycut for him. That’s part of the problem.
He will not survive next year’s primary
Cornyn. If you have a better idea, we’re all ears.
That’s the problem right there. The surrender caucus have no plan other than roll over for the Dems and tip toe to the next election.
Hey Cornyn! In just a little more than a year, you and your close buddy Dewhurst will both be out of a job.
Guess you can dove hunt with him all the time.
I think Cornyn’s gonna be tip toeing out the door.
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