Here's hoping that it is an electoral tsunami (we used to say tidal wave in my day but half of today's people wouldn't understand that now).
It is difficult for me to believe that there are, or could be, out there who are so oblivious to what Obama and his ilk are doing. Myself, I'm just one big ball of seething, angry, anxious voter RAGE who cannot wait to punch the ballot against a RINO or two in the primaries.
Drama????
Me thinks it was not a drama but a showdown of wits and Cruz and Lee were the winner by far. Odogdung can not hold a candle on smarts compared to these two. People say Odogdung is smart....I say BS...maybe the puppet masters are smart but not Odogdung.
They not only out foxed Odogdung, but the ones in the Republican party as well that were calling for their heads.
Cruz stood up to the entrinched Republican establishment and did what he said he would do when he ran for office. For this, I will always have respect for the man.
If he tires of Washington, he can come home to Texas and be President of this great State.
Now, we need to rid Washington of Cornyn.....
No one can tell me that there weren’t GOPE (GOP Elite Snobs) insiders who weren’t well aware that amonst other things that the infamous website wouldn’t be operational at the start up date. But kept it to themselves because they didn’t want the upstart tea partyers to spread the word. That might have killed this thing from the get go.
While the Romney camp didn’t use any researched material in the disasterous 2012 campaign on AHCA that don’t mean they didn’t research what was in there. If they deny researching it then they’re really incompetent.
-— Cruz anticipated that the American people would realize eventually: “Holy Cow! Those Republicans were right!” -—
This is the value in fighting a losing battle. You can lose a battle, but win the war.
Alternatively, 35 years of strategic retreat has cost us our country.
Another great thing Ted accomplished is that he destroyed what I believe was the main talking point Obama and his minions were going to use to justify Single-Payer when the inevitable crash-and-burn of the Affordable Health-Care Act took place:
“We tried it the Republican’s way, now we have to come up with a real solution!”
I’ve heard a few Democrat talking heads still try to suggest that the ACA was actually a Republican idea, but it’s difficult to make that nonsense stick post-shutdown.
While Ted Cruz-Mike Lee engaged in their whole exercise.... They put on a brave face but figured they would fail to stop 0-Care. But they knew they would be laying down a marker. That Republicans have nothing to do with o-care and no Republican voted for it
When the 0-Crae website roll out is such an expensive disaster people figure 0-Care will be as bad. That awful website is the best advertising conservatives could have for why we don’t like 0-Care style socialized medicine. No one is signing up except for those who want gimme medicaid
Unfortunately the McConnell wing of the Party destroyed all that Cruz did.
Pray America will wake up
There’s something else, on amnesty and other issues, every article I see now has the GOP-ers like McCain saying they’re going to have to wait until after the primaries to “move forward” on any of those issues. Cruz reaffirmed the Tea Party’s willingness to primary out RINOs. That’s resulting in stopping in its tracks a lot of bad legislation the GOP-e wants to collaborate with the Dems on.
Terrific article which is spot on. Senator Cruz’s 21 hour Senate speech will be hailed as a turning point in American politics. It was a brilliant move, perfectly timed. It is now clear that Obamacare is a disaster that is harming millions of Americans. And it is only going to get worse. It will eventually collapse of its own weight. This is the natural consequence of a law so complex and poorly thought out.
Senator Cruz looks like Nostradamus.