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Did Ted Cruz Just Force Republicans Into A Government Shutdown They Don't Want?
Business Insider ^ | 09/18/2013 | Josh Barro

Posted on 09/18/2013 7:41:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 09/18/2013 7:41:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

One can only hope.


2 posted on 09/18/2013 7:43:33 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (In te, Domine, speravi: non confundar in aeternum.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I AM a US Govt Employee(US Air Force Civ) and I say, “SHUT the DAMN thing DOWN”!


3 posted on 09/18/2013 7:44:04 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Failing to see how Ted Cruz has forced anything on anyone....


4 posted on 09/18/2013 7:44:09 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: SeekAndFind

At this point, what difference does it make?


5 posted on 09/18/2013 7:44:13 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Mad Dawg

Better see if the limp-wristed Senate Repukelicans are onboard for you start stalking to the senate communists for their votes.


6 posted on 09/18/2013 7:45:57 AM PDT by Common Sense 101 (Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What America needs, is for American companies, to bring back American jobs, to America.

For an entire generation we have send the world’s strongest economy to the world’s weakest country.

Except the world’s weakest country, has 5 TIMES OUR POPULATION.

So now America has very few actual jobs, everything is made in China - which is rapidly replacing America.

And we argue over stuff which doesn’t really matter.

BRING BACK AMERICAN JOBS NOW.


7 posted on 09/18/2013 7:47:24 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: SeekAndFind

As Ronald Reagan once said “Let’s shut it down, and see if anyone otices”

I don’t quite remember the 90’s shutdown being so awful “for Republicans” as all the media are saying...

If I remember it correctly it ammounted to nothing but a free paid vacation for all federal workers for 2 days.


8 posted on 09/18/2013 7:47:29 AM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: austinaero

No, I don’t see it either, particularly since the bill the House is coalescing behind is one that actually does not shut down the government. It provides funding for those activities, and the only thing it defunds is Obamacare.

Even a lot of Dems might like that, because they could use the fact that it funds the government as an excuse for voting for something that will halt the increasingly unpopular Obamacare.


9 posted on 09/18/2013 7:47:51 AM PDT by livius
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To: SeekAndFind

It would be nice, and I’m getting more and more on his bandwagon, but I doubt it. He forced a vote (which the Senate will urinate on and pass back to the House) at which time Boehner will cave.


10 posted on 09/18/2013 7:47:57 AM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: SeekAndFind

Mike Lee created the plan. Cruz signed on and helps sell it.

But the headline doesn’t accuse Mike Lee of anything.

There’s one reason why.

Mike Lee isn’t a lightning rod that well might run for President, far as anyone knows.

This is an attack on Ted Cruz.

Period.

That’s why this thing was written and headlined this way, and Robert Costa who’s quoted is not so subtly ANTI-CONSERVATIVE, ANTI-CRUZ.


11 posted on 09/18/2013 7:48:37 AM PDT by txrangerette ("...hold to the truth; speak without fear." - Glenn Beck)
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To: SeekAndFind

Too bad the Republicans don’t have the gonads to put the blame for any shut down where it belongs — on Obama.


12 posted on 09/18/2013 7:48:41 AM PDT by Maceman (Just say "NO" to tyranny.)
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To: SeekAndFind

As Mark Levin says: “Government shutdown? the whole damn government shuts down every weekend”


13 posted on 09/18/2013 7:50:00 AM PDT by AU72
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To: SeekAndFind

let’s hope so, I am done being double crossed by boner


14 posted on 09/18/2013 7:51:18 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: SeekAndFind; nathanbedford
Boehner must decide wherein lie the greater and the lesser risks. His dithering has left it with few positive options, he must choose the least dangerous risk.

Hopefully the reports on defunding 0bamacare are true. Boehner, true to form, selects the "least dangerous option" to him, which is the right decision for the wrong reason!

15 posted on 09/18/2013 7:51:27 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: SeekAndFind

We not only need to get rid of this terrible O-care (which is destroying jobs From Sea to Shining Sea),
we need to get rid of this terrible Congressional “leadership,” which is only leading us further into the Obama Depression.


16 posted on 09/18/2013 7:52:12 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Er)
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To: SeekAndFind

The only ones who are seeking to force a shut down of the government are Obama and the Democrats. Under Cruz’s proposal only Obamacare will not be funded. The rest of the government will be funded and can carry on.


17 posted on 09/18/2013 7:54:38 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: AU72
... the whole damn government shuts down every weekend

And at noon Friday if Monday is a holiday.

18 posted on 09/18/2013 7:57:41 AM PDT by ken in texas (Obama schedule- Nice weather: golf, else play spades with Reggie)
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To: txrangerette

This is an attack on Ted Cruz.


The author, John Barro, is a goosestepping Dem propagandist. The leftist media are getting worked up into a frenzy now in support of Dear Leader. Drudge had an AP wire story today that accused the GOP of taking “hostages”. Disgusting.


19 posted on 09/18/2013 8:00:10 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
What America needs, is for American companies, to bring back American jobs, to America.

The jobs have been driven away by the Marxist policies of the government.

20 posted on 09/18/2013 8:00:40 AM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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