Posted on 12/12/2014 11:19:15 AM PST by Rusty0604
WASHINGTON – Republican Sens. Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Jeff Sessions are pushing for a vote to defund President Obama’s executive amnesty in the “Cromnibus” spending bill Friday night, The Daily Caller has learned.
The trio of conservative senators is hoping to get the defund vote onto the Senate floor as a “point of order,” which would force a procedural vote on the issue without Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid having to introduce it.
The senators are pushing hard on Capitol Hill for the measure as of early Friday afternoon. If successful, the vote would take place late Friday night, after planned deliberations on the defense budget.
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ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for trying, Senator Cruz. Your efforts may be doomed to fail, but they won't be forgotten.
Blah, blah, blah. Everyone knew those votes were meaningliess.
More than the usual number of voters are paying attention this week. This is a chance to form the issues and debate them before the public, and to make it more clear where various Republicans stand. And it's also an opportunity to make more voters aware of who did, or didn't do what during all the maneuvering this week. And it's a chance to highlight what was, and still is possible for Republicans to do.
The more voters who are aware of the sorry dealings among the Beltway Republicans, the better. Reagan and Gingrich made a heck of a lot of speeches before either made any progress toward winning more voters to their cause.
“Three good conservative senators, where are the rest of the Republicans?”
Where they usually are: collaborating and capitulating.
Maybe to post contact information will help others to do likewise. There is definitely power in numbers.
"See,we tried!"
BTW, what's with these people who claim "they were tricked by Boehner" into voting for this in the House? Just WTF? Over.
Maybe he can read another Dr. Seuss bedtime story.
Better than reading a phonebook like dem fillibusters....
And eveyrone knows this vote will also be meaningless blah, blah blah.
Just my 2 cents....
I don’t get that feeling about Senator Cruz’s efforts here.
It was like giving him a blank check, your banking information, and your passwords, because he said, “Honest!”
The whole thing stinks to high heavens.
“Oh just approve of the move to go back to the floor. I’ll change it then, honest.”
If this is true, he is one craven individual.
I sure wish they could do better than Boehner this next two years.
This is disgusting to the absolute max.
I did the same thing. Would drift off to sleep and jump up and watch for a bit...did that til the wee hours of the morning. I wanted to hang in there for my Sen Cruz. God bless and keep him, Sen Lee and Sen Sessions.
Rand Paul's immigration speech...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reformLatinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
Perhaps the biggest weakness of the current Republican party is the lack of decent spokesmen. This week has been an opportunity for some to speak up and they should. You would have considered Reagan's run in 1976 as meaningless.
Making the voters aware of what is going on is critical, especially when the so-called 'leaders' of the Republicans try to hide so much. The government shutdown boogieman is one of the biggest strawmen erected in recent years. It's been nothing but a diversion to divert attention from the GOPe's working with Obama to amnesty illegal aliens, and to fully fund Obamacare.
The few conservatives definitely need to do things to draw attention to those realities.;
I don’t get that feeling about Senator Cruz’s efforts here.
Ditto!
At least they’re standing up and fighting for the American people...albeit alone and against huge odds. Which is more than McReidconnell, McShame or McCornyn are doing.
The entire Rump Session in the Senate should have been devoted to confirmation hearings on the new SoD, and debates on Foreign policy. In the House, absolute maximum recalcitrance should be the Order of the Day, not craven accomodation of this administration.
It is time to "out" the personal fortunes of the House and Senate. Are the American people now so stupid that they have no curiosity as to how Diane Feinstein,Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi et al., have amassed $Billion+ family fortunes. Ditto: Hatch, Reid, Boehner, Biden, McConnell, etc.? Is this the reason the "Republican" Party blithely ignores the outspoken wishes of those that gave them the majority in Congress for the next two years?
OK, Ted, pis aller and faut meilleur, you are our hero. But please spare us these last-minute heroics that so often come to naught.
No, running for preisdent and losing is not meaningless, because doing so allows voters to get to know a candidate.
Clearly sometimes you have to run more than once before you catch fire.
If these three men, whom are all good men, want to start leading, then start leading.
Doing so should not be hard at all considering that the GOP has zero leadership.
I do not considering having meaningless votes leading, I consider it having meaningless votes.
Want to do something effective? Then get with the members, convince them you should be leader, are going to be leader, and then get them to elect you leader.
No ones need Mitch McConnell and John Boner besides Obama.
If this party cannot generate leadership outside of these two traitorous rats, then it is most certainly going to die and should die.
We've had a number of those over the last twenty years. Each time we've found a way to yank Defeat from the Jaws of Victory.
In 1992, Bush ran one of the worst presidential campaigns I have ever seen. He phoned it in, if that. Look at the baggage Clinton had. The Bush team couldn't capitalize on it.
In 1996 it was Bob Dull. With even more Clinton baggage, he couldn't capitalize on that either.
Then 2000 and 2004 came along, and Bush couldn't capitalize on the records of Al Gore or John Kerry astutely enough to win the sort of victory that was reasoned. He barely scraped by against the likes of those two.
Then McCain and Romney were unable to defeat a man who may not even be a citizen. Furthermore, they didn't even bring the issue up. McCain actually endorsed Obama. Romney endorsed national Romneycare, giving people absolutely no reason to prefer him over the man that was giving us Obamacare.
In each of these elections, the Democrat's Leftist candidates were so bad, they should have been laughed off the public stage. Instead our inept Leftists allowed them to trump, or barely squeaked by, an equally disgusting outcome.
Reagan won because Carter looked so bad. And Reagan won because he took Carter to task on his record. Nobody since him has actually taken the other guy to task on his record forcefully.
So ripe moment after ripe moment goes by with out our side capitalizing on it.
Surely I jest though, we don't have a side in this fight.
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