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CRUZADE: DEFUNDING EFFORT NEARING 30 VOTES IN SENATE
Breitbart/Big Government ^ | 9-26-2013 | Mike Flynn

Posted on 09/26/2013 9:06:43 PM PDT by smoothsailing

September 26, 2013

CRUZADE: DEFUNDING EFFORT NEARING 30 VOTES IN SENATE

Mike Flynn

According to sources on the Hill, there is growing support among Senate Republicans to support Sens. Cruz and Lee's efforts to scuttle Sen. Harry Reid's attempt to reinstate ObamaCare funding in the House Continuing Resolution...

According to Hill sources, over 20 GOP Senators are set to buck Leadership on Friday and reject this procedural game, by voting against cloture. By some accounts, up to 30 Senators could vote against GOP Leadership, which would represent an existential crisis within the caucus. McConnell and Cornyn have publicly put their reputations on the line. If more than half the caucus votes against them, the center of power within the Senate Republicans will have shifted. ...........

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cloture; cornyn; cornyn4obamamcare; cruz; defundobamacare; mcconnell; mcconnell4obamacare; primarycornyn; primarymcconnell; tedcruz
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To: Jane Long

The dems have to know this thing is a total wreck. You’d think they would jump ship, rather than face the wrath of the voters in the upcoming election.


41 posted on 09/26/2013 9:43:46 PM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: Graewoulf
May I use you to defend my repeated posting should I get crosswise AGAIN with the Admin. Mod.?

Absolutely. Please cite my post to you, if needed.

Your post isn't spam (if that's the charge). It's a much needed public service.

42 posted on 09/26/2013 9:43:52 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: smoothsailing

Any Senator, including GOP Senators, who vote for shutting down debate
tomorrow is a vote to fund Obamacare. Pure and simple.


43 posted on 09/26/2013 9:44:13 PM PDT by tennmountainman (Just Say No To Obamacare)
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To: smoothsailing

Reid: “There’s No Need For Conversations”

All the more reason to tell senators to vote NO! for cloture!


44 posted on 09/26/2013 9:46:05 PM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: Windflier

Thank you!

_________

“You Sir, are a gentleman and a scholar, and there are damn few of us left!”


45 posted on 09/26/2013 9:46:41 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: All; Jane Long

“Keep calling/faxing/Tweeting/FaceBooking and emailing!!”

You BET!

Better chance of talking with someone if you call in the morning.

However, leaving a message is good, too.

You can tweet these guys all at once. Someone posted this on Twitter:

“NO on cloture! @McConnellPress @SenAlexander @KellyAyotte @SenatorBurr @SenThadCochran @SenBobCorker @JohnCornyn @SenatorHagan #MakeDCListen “


46 posted on 09/26/2013 9:49:46 PM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: BeadCounter

Yeah, there’s still hope.

I think a lot of what pisses the GOP-e off is the fact they get angry that their voting constituents (us) are smarter and more well informed that the Democratic counterparts. I mean, if you’re a lib, all you gotta do is have a (D) next to your name and as long as you kiss enough media butt, your liberal supporters will come out and pull the lever, no matter what you do because if the media hides it, they don’t know any better.

Our guys on the other hand, should know better. They pull that crap (i.e. Amnesty reform, etc) and we light up the phone lines and make use of the primary system. Experience doing this has taught us some of those “complex” procedural rules Congress tries to pull on us to make us look like we don’t know what’s going on. We don’t give our RINOs cover like the Libs give their Blue Dogs. Look at Manchin, Landrieu, and Pryor. If Reid has the votes, it would not surprise me for Reid to give permission for them to oppose cloture, and all will be forgiven by their constituents because at the heart of every Democrat, the most important thing above anything else is winning and the “understanding” that they come from Red States where Dems wouldn’t normally have a prayer, and that anything with a (D) is preferable to an (R).

We, on the other hand, hold our people accountable and have long memories. I think the GOP-e really wishes we were just as stupid or ignorant and let them be.

Thank goodness for Ted Cruz. For the first time in a long time, we have a leader in Washington trying to fight for liberty. I’m still shocked he and Lee have had to almost single-handedly fight this alone. This isn’t rocket science what their doing.


47 posted on 09/26/2013 9:56:21 PM PDT by parksstp
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To: Jane Long

November 2014: DeRINO Congress


Expect a senate RSC to try to save their RATS, like Murkowski vs. Miller in 2010. They protect their own hides first.


48 posted on 09/26/2013 10:04:47 PM PDT by txhurl ('The DOG ate my homework. That homework, too. ALL my homework. OK?' - POSHITUS)
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To: parksstp

interestingly Dingy Harry tried to push a vote on cloture at 8pm tonight...why the big hurry I wonder? perhaps numbers getting a bit too close for comfort? Perhaps asked to do this by republican leadership to avoid embarrassment tomorrow?

Regardless Sen Lee objected and the vote will be held during daylight hours for all the world to see...bring it on!


49 posted on 09/26/2013 10:09:16 PM PDT by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: Lancey Howard

CRUZADE!!! LOVE IT!!!


50 posted on 09/26/2013 10:09:45 PM PDT by MestaMachine (My caps work, You gotta earn them.)
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To: BeadCounter

Make no mistake..... If Obamacare is funded and implemented, it will be because Republican members of Congress decided to do it..... the Republican ‘House controls’ the fate of Obamacare...period!


51 posted on 09/26/2013 10:14:01 PM PDT by caww
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To: Graewoulf

Thanks for the info, Graewoulf.


52 posted on 09/26/2013 10:16:43 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: Red Steel

Sen. Scott is a good man.


53 posted on 09/26/2013 10:18:09 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: smoothsailing
I was talking with a friend of mine who is a lib, voted for Obama twice, exc... She was complaining about how much her insurance premium is going to go up. She's had to get a second job because of it. She didn't know anything about the IRS connection to Ocare, or the death panels, or especially, that the politicians have exempted themselves from it.(She didn't think that was right at all.)

Just goes to show that we should try to talk to everyone about these issues, even when we think they won't listen.

Time to start reminding the citizenry about all the wonderful things they will have to look foward to with Ocare- Death panels, Irs telling your doctor when, how, and how much medical treatment you are allowed exc.. but then reassure people that they have nothing to worry about, because the important thing is that their elected officials exempted themselves from Ocare.

54 posted on 09/26/2013 10:20:32 PM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: Pajamajan

Just goes to show that we should try to talk to everyone about these issues, even when we think they won’t listen.


Great point.

But the key to doing that is to discuss it with them on a personal level that hits home with them.

The low info people don’t look at the big picture and must be slapped up the side of the head, so to speak.


55 posted on 09/26/2013 10:24:32 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: Jane Long; All

And praying. Please don’t forget to pray (especially Thanks)!

This is the most optimistic I’ve been in a *long* time.


56 posted on 09/26/2013 10:25:49 PM PDT by KGeorge (Till we're together again, Gypsy girl. May 28, 1998- June 3, 2013)
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To: Graewoulf; P.O.E.
Senator Pat ToomeyVerified account ‏@SenToomey 11h I will be voting no on cloture.

Wahoo!

57 posted on 09/26/2013 10:31:53 PM PDT by MestaMachine (My caps work, You gotta earn them.)
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To: MestaMachine

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


58 posted on 09/26/2013 10:33:55 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: smoothsailing

I think the two senators from Georgia need a lot of calls and emails.


59 posted on 09/26/2013 10:39:25 PM PDT by barmag25
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To: smoothsailing
Handwriting on the wall!

I will not be voting again for Coryn, a do nothing Senator.

60 posted on 09/26/2013 10:43:49 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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