Posted on 08/23/2015 7:27:27 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
A Shutdown Threat, Trump’s Fed Hiring Spree and More From Presidential Candidates For most 2016 presidential candidates, the critical day of the campaign is still several months away, with the first votes being cast in Iowa on Feb.1.
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, however, appears to have a much closer date circled on his calendar, a date that federal employees are also keeping an eye on: Sept. 30, the last day Congress can pass a spending bill to avoid a government shutdown.
Cruz is using his campaign soapbox to threaten to derail the funding process if Planned Parenthood receives federal appropriations. In an op-ed published in USA Today Thursday afternoon, the senator promised a “fight” in the Senate to see his defunding plan through.
Cruz is no stranger to risking a shutdown over ideological issues, and any threats he makes should be treated seriously by federal workers nervous about receiving furlough notices or delayed paychecks. The presidential candidate is widely credited as the architect of the 2013 government shutdown, which he orchestrated in an attempt to defund the Affordable Care Act.
Once again, Cruz has made clear he means business.
“The time for show votes is over,” Cruz wrote. “Funding the federal government does not require funding Planned Parenthood.” …………………………
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Cruz is my choice.
Ted Cruz is a fighter, not a talker.
Talk is cheap, and we have heard too much cheap talk from RINO’s like McConnell and Boehner.
I am ready for President Cruz.
I’VE SEEN NO HIRING SPREE.
And the TRUMP HIRING “SPREE” IS THIS:
A less explosive element of the immigration white paper called for a federal agency to triple its workforce. Trump suggested Immigration and Customs Enforcement hire 10,000 new employees to give the agency far greater resources to enforce immigration laws and locate individuals residing in the country without legal status.
The billionaire businessman said he would pay for the new hires by eliminating tax credit payments to the undocumented immigrants.
Presently I'm still uncommitted.Even though the Republicans presently have 17 'candidates' I am only considering/researching 2 possibly 3. Due to weekly new pronouncements, new revelations, any earlier enthusiasm is occasionally dulled for me. But I'm still keeping an open mind, a searching heart.
Over the last few decades, it's a shame that a country with >335M populace, we cannot set forth qualified, patriotic, fire-in-the-belly, problem solving candidates on both sides of the ballot.
Good for Cruz. It’s time for “show votes” to be over. It’s time for all the rinos to pick a side. They’re either for baby killing or they’re not.
I suspect they are for it.
I believe the nation has been poorly served by our journalists and other media. We have these candidates queried on their legislative desires when they are running for an executive office.
They are asked about state issues, court decisions and whether they wear boxers or briefs.
Executive matters at the federal level are never an issue.
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