Posted on 09/17/2013 8:57:26 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
For the last few weeks, House Speaker John Boehner has been trying to find a way to convince his caucus to vote for a bill that keeps the government open after Sept. 30 without picking a fight over Obamacare. But a minority of his caucus has been insisting on defunding Obamacare, egged on by outside conservative groups and a handful of far-right Republican Senators, most importantly Ted Cruz (Texas). This has been pretty annoying for a lot of House Republican members and staff. Jonathan Strong and Andrew Stiles of National Review got an anecdote out of a closed Republican Study Committee meeting yesterday:
Max Pappas, an aide to Texas senator Ted Cruz who was on hand, rose to argue that in the event the House and President Obama were at odds when government funding expired, Republicans could pass a bill to fund the troops and other core priorities. At that point, a woman rose, identifying herself as a staffer to a Texas Republican. Pappas, she said, was “not dealing in reality” and making everyone else’s life difficult. The staffer, whom two GOP sources identified as working for Representative John Culberson of Texas, went on to decry Cruz for holding events in Culberson’s district and telling his constituents that defunding Obamacare would be “easy.”
This is a key aspect of the Cruz-driven defund Obamacare push. With in the Senate, Cruz is essentially irrelevant. Any budget deal that comes out of there will be struck between majority Democrats and a number of more practically-minded Republicans, like Sen. John McCain (Ariz.). [ROFLOL!]
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Wow. How unsporting to “annoy” the Democrat loving RINOs.
But I’m a bit confused. Is “far-right” further than “ultra-conservative”? Or is “”Far right extreme conservative” the furthest?
How come those adjectives are NEVER used with libtards??
I just can’t it straight. Maybe “Business Insider” can set it right for me? (Sarcasm)
You and I know that they need to be GONE and I hope this happens in 2014! There needs to be new (conservative) blood in DC..AND term limits!
Oh...and Cruz for president! :)
/johnny
:: The staffer, whom two GOP sources identified as working for Representative John Culberson of Texas, went on to decry Cruz for holding events in Culberson’s district and telling his constituents that defunding Obamacare would be “easy. ::
Mushy parochialism from a mushy Pubbie.
Yo, Culberson hack, all fo Texas is Cruz’s “district” and you just represent part of that in the House. Get over yer-sef, homes!
Pound sand, establishment supporter.
/johnny
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Works for me.
Derbyshire is libertarian at heart, a pro-abort in creed, a champion of Michael Sciavo's position in the Terry Sciavo controversy, and doesn't understand that tax cuts lead to prosperity.
He's not even a "sort of conservative" on a good day.
FReegards!
Great place to live! We should move there.
I STAND WITH TED CRUZ AGAINST ANYONE OF ANY PARTY IF THEY DISAGREE WITH US.
Hurrah! Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz.
He may only run if actually legal, we don’t support lawlessness like pResident Obama.
>>The GOP is in decent shape to make meaningful gains in the Senate and maybe the House in 2014. Regaining control of Capitol Hill is the only way to overturn ObamaCare. Don’t blow our only chance to stop this train wreck pursuing political theatre...<<
In my opinion, the best way to make those gains you see happening is for the GOP to stand firm and vote to defund Obamacare.
If the Senate fails to go along, you get a list of Senators who shut down the government for the sake of saving Obamacare.
If the Senate caves, and President Obama vetoes, you get a list of Senators, and House members, who supported President Obama in shutting down the government for the sake of saving Obamacare.
Whoever votes to shut down the government just to save Obamacare has the losing side of the political battle on this one. Shut it down and let’s see who caves.
Will constituents be calling Republican Congressman saying that they need their benefits so badly that the GOP has to go along with Obamacare, or will they be calling Dem Congressmen saying, “To hell with Obamacare, give me my benefits!” Don’t forget, most of them have Dem Congressmen in the first place.
Boehner wants to protect the budget cuts provided by sequestration. Those cuts are “small ball” compared to Obamacare.
I think irish needs to go to another forum, period.
You said to irish: “Pound sand, establishment supporter.” You are right, Johnny.
Well, thank God he’s legal. Born to a fully qualified American citizen working temporarily in Canada. He’s a natural born citizen and American patriot in every sense of the word!
Run, Ted, RUN!!
On the other side of the ledger, Derbyshire is pro-gun, anti-amnesty, anti-racial quotas, anti-union, anti-Muslim immigration at home, pro-Israel, anti-Muslim Brotherhood, anti-crime, anti-welfare state, and so on. That makes him well to the right of most Republicans, and certainly to the right of most GOP primary voters.
...Whoever votes to shut down the government just to save Obamacare has the losing side of the political battle on this one. Shut it down and let’s see who caves....
It is important to avoid projecting one’s own enthusiasms on the broader public. The ACA isn’t popular, but it is more popular than denying grandma her social security check and the wives and children of soldiers in the AfPak theater their paychecks and a million other things that the mainstream media will seize upon. Whatever the echo chamber of FR leads you to believe, the country won’t be behind Cruz and Co. on this hopeless crusade.
Did you not hear POTUS yesterday taunting the “extreme right” to go ahead and make his day? A shutdown is precisely what he wants. It saved Billie Jeff’s chestnuts in 1998 and it will save this charlatan’s in 2013. Don’t fall for this trap again.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
...Whoever votes to shut down the government just to save Obamacare has the losing side of the political battle on this one. Shut it down and let’s see who caves....
It is important to avoid projecting one’s own enthusiasms on the broader public. The ACA isn’t popular, but it is more popular than denying grandma her social security check and the wives and children of soldiers in the AfPak theater their paychecks and a million other things that the mainstream media will seize upon. Whatever the echo chamber of FR leads you to believe, the country won’t be behind Cruz and Co. on this hopeless crusade.
Did you not hear POTUS yesterday taunting the “extreme right” to go ahead and make his day? A shutdown is precisely what he wants. It saved Billie Jeff’s chestnuts in 1998 and it will save this charlatan’s in 2013. Don’t fall for this trap again.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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