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Cruz says he would filibuster to defund Obamacare
The Daily Caller ^ | 9-19-2013 | Alexis Levinson

Posted on 09/19/2013 10:57:09 AM PDT by servo1969

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To: Mr. K

Ooh a real one?


21 posted on 09/19/2013 11:24:59 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: servo1969

I have been wondering about this.
Does it take 40 to filibuster or the full 51 to filibuster a CR which is basically a budget. Budget recojncilaition takes 51 to filibuster as thats how Obama-care was finally passed.

Or is this like the single Senator talking until he gets tired like Rand Paul did on that confirmation?


22 posted on 09/19/2013 11:25:16 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: Pride in the USA
It's a crime that it will probably come to this, but I love Ted Cruz for being willing to do it.


23 posted on 09/19/2013 11:25:18 AM PDT by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
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To: DonaldC

Good point. That would insure that the idiots that passed it before they read it would have an opportunity to know what is in it.

Blessings, bobo


24 posted on 09/19/2013 11:27:48 AM PDT by bobo1 (L)
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To: servo1969

a real filibuster, it’s been a long time.

Usually a Democrat will say “I filibuster” and the GOP surrenders. It will just be deemed a flibuster.


25 posted on 09/19/2013 11:28:53 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: servo1969

Cruz is one of the bright spots of Republicans in Congress. Most others are merely occupying space.


26 posted on 09/19/2013 11:29:29 AM PDT by Dapper 26
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To: servo1969

Hey Nancy,

You passed the bill and now we have read it.

The American People do NOT want this socialized monstrosity of a health care law.


27 posted on 09/19/2013 11:30:37 AM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: CPT Clay

AGREED! THIS is that hill. Or bust.


28 posted on 09/19/2013 11:30:44 AM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: servo1969

Excellent.


29 posted on 09/19/2013 11:30:55 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (My PV2 is my hero.)
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To: Mr. K
can’t they hand-off to another guy willing to stand up and filibuster?

get 3 people and you can keep it going indefinately

what to talk about for 24 hours straight? just read the damn obamacare bill...

Why? All Cruz has to do is say he's filibustering it and it goes nowhere. This isn't the old days when they had to hold the floor. They can filibuster from a hot tub if they want to.

30 posted on 09/19/2013 11:34:26 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Westbrook

This is out on Drudge:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7cRsfW0Jv8&feature=player_embedded


31 posted on 09/19/2013 11:35:28 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: servo1969
So much for the Democrat's disinformation campaign saying Cruz will cave to dingy on funding Obamacare.
32 posted on 09/19/2013 11:39:16 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: zerosix; CPT Clay; Jane Long; Jim Robinson; C. Edmund Wright

TED CRUZ is showing the globe how to engage an enemy, both foreign and DOMESTIC! There is HOPE again. Thanks be to God

Wars have been won this way.


33 posted on 09/19/2013 11:39:40 AM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: Mr. K
just read the damn obamacare bill...

AND if it goes on longer than that, start grabbing phone books at random from around the country and start reading names because all those people are going to be hit with zero-care and their identities should be HEARD! ;)

34 posted on 09/19/2013 11:54:32 AM PDT by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: RitaOK

“TED CRUZ is showing the globe how to engage an enemy, both foreign and DOMESTIC!”

Obama might be both.


35 posted on 09/19/2013 11:58:03 AM PDT by 1035rep
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To: DoodleDawg

what is the longest filibuster on record?


36 posted on 09/19/2013 12:08:19 PM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: Mr. K
what is the longest filibuster on record?

I think Jimmy Stewart holds the record.

37 posted on 09/19/2013 12:16:44 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: servo1969

He’s the real deal, nothing false, nothing fake with him.


38 posted on 09/19/2013 12:24:12 PM PDT by BeadCounter (Really? Syria?)
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To: Mr. K

It’s about a 20 record set, 25 minutes each side back in the days of the 78 speed records.


39 posted on 09/19/2013 12:24:57 PM PDT by BeadCounter (Really? Syria?)
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To: Mr. K
what is the longest filibuster on record?

Well if you're talking about a real filibuster, the kind where a Senator has to hold the floor, then I think Strom Thurmond went over 24 hours in his filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

40 posted on 09/19/2013 12:27:01 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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