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Sen. Ron Johnson: "Stop Relying on the Federal Government to Solve Your Problems"
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Posted on 09/26/2013 9:26:20 PM PDT by cornelis

(CNSNews.com) - As the people's elected representatives in Washington wrangle over the budget, the debt limit and defunding Obamacare, one freshman senator admits the news is not good.

--snip--

"Eventually, if you're going to defund Obamacare, you're going to have to pass a (repeal) bill because Obamacare is permanent law. It's part of that mandatory spending. And you have to pass a bill through the Senate and have the president sign it into law."

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To: cornelis

*** Sell out cowardice on parade Alert***


21 posted on 09/26/2013 9:56:55 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: samadams2000

Like Cornyn, these fools are trying to sound as conservative as possible as they stab conservatives in the back


22 posted on 09/26/2013 9:58:03 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: TBP

Pat Buchanan explains how to do it:
http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/republicans-fix-bayonets/

Johnson will cave, is my prediction.


23 posted on 09/26/2013 10:00:01 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: RDasher
He is right on the money.

It's the same shtick that Boehner said after a crisis: it's up to you now, you have to vote Republican.

24 posted on 09/26/2013 10:01:22 PM PDT by cornelis
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To: cornelis

Barf. I sure as heck don’t see why it ever has to be funded. It may be a law, but it’s up to the house whether it gets one red cent.

Besides who else in Washington obeys the law? Not the Obama Administration nor the Harry Reid led Senators. They can all just go jump in a lake as far as I’m concerned.


25 posted on 09/26/2013 10:06:28 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: bigbob

I don’t trust him, but he’s a godsend after Feingold.


26 posted on 09/26/2013 10:07:09 PM PDT by cornelis
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To: cornelis

Eliminate welfare programs and make everyone pay their own way!

Fire all employees that administer welfare progerams.

That would go a long way to ballance the budget and start to pay off the debt.


27 posted on 09/26/2013 10:09:36 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: GeronL

I don’t want the fedgov to solve my problems.

I want it to stop causing them, though.


28 posted on 09/26/2013 10:21:47 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Graewoulf

Called all 8 of Cornyn’s offices 5 times today - message boxes full and no one answered the phone or there was a busy signal. Also tried sending a fax to all 8 offices after setting my machine on redial. None of them ever answered.

Just flipping unbelievable.


29 posted on 09/26/2013 10:22:22 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Grams A

I thank you on behalf of my four Grandchildren for your efforts.


30 posted on 09/26/2013 10:24:50 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Grams A

The WDC freaks (obviously our betters) don’t want to hear from the people. They are too busy enjoying themselves at the trough.


31 posted on 09/26/2013 10:28:52 PM PDT by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp)
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To: cornelis

At this point of with 30 posts already in. I’m the only poster identifiable from Wisconsin. Found Johnson to be sincere and concerned. What does scare me is that his reading of Obama is skewed. Obama is a snake oil salesman when it comes to what he really believes which is he’s a die hard one world communist. Government is the solution to every problem. Which is the same way Cruz reads him.

Johnson buys into the bi-partisan b/s and doesn’t accept what Obama really is and that’s where he gets into trouble.


32 posted on 09/26/2013 10:58:37 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause.Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: cornelis

I think the senator is making a valid point. No matter what, the only possible way to defund Obamacare is to actually vote for cloture. However, Democrats can always add amendments after the fact. There is simply no other way to do it. Shutting down the government by keeping the debate going won’t do it. No matter what, cloture must be invoked at some point. There’s only one way to actually defund Obamacare without shutting down the government. It has to make it through the amendment process in the senate.


33 posted on 09/26/2013 11:07:29 PM PDT by CitizenUSA (Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
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To: GeronL

For some? Yes. But there are plenty of others who really want Obamacare defunded but don’t believe it can be done by Cruz’s method. As I understand it, Cruz cannot succeed by voting against cloture. I think a better strategy if for the House to start passing funding bills for separate pieces of government. Pass something to fund the DoD, for example, that does not include funding for Obamacare. Will the Democrats simply refuse to pass anything at all unless they add Obamacare back into it? If so, popular opinion isn’t going to support that.


34 posted on 09/26/2013 11:12:43 PM PDT by CitizenUSA (Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
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To: cornelis

It’s way to low to pay the O tax. That kicks in at around
$400,000 or so. I’m hoping to get $160,000


35 posted on 09/26/2013 11:43:13 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: Nifster

Thank you for your post. Ron Johnson is one of the good guys.


36 posted on 09/27/2013 12:01:55 AM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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To: Rocky

Senator Johnson represents those of us in Wisconsin well, he is damned sure better than Feingold ever was, and then we have Tammy Baldwin on the demodummie side who is a major lib if there ever was one.


37 posted on 09/27/2013 2:07:39 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: cornelis

What the is “permanent spending”? Is that like Scottish law or something? Totals bull crap.


38 posted on 09/27/2013 2:46:18 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: RDasher

“If we’re voting to proceed to a vote on a bill that actually defunds Obamacare, that’s kind of hard not to vote to proceed to that final passage”

Direct quote. He sounds like Coburn. He knows Reid will strip out the language with a bare majority.


39 posted on 09/27/2013 4:14:26 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: cornelis

Our founding fathers are spinning in their graves over what this federal government has become!


40 posted on 09/27/2013 5:00:26 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)
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