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Ted Cruz Smacks Down Candy Crowley for Saying 'It's Blackmail' to Offer Separate Funding Bills
Newsbusters ^ | October 6, 2013

Posted on 10/06/2013 3:03:28 PM PDT by SMGFan

CRUZ: But Candy, let me press back. It's twice you've said Harry Reid would say it's blackmail. And I want to press back, because I actually -- I think that's a false claim with no basis. The bill that the House passed on the VA simply funds the VA. It doesn't mention anything about Obamacare. It doesn't mention anything about anything else. Now, for hundreds of years, the way Congress is appropriated has been one topic at a time. How is it blackmail to say we think we should fund the veterans? Do you agree? That's a yes or no vote. Now Harry Reid refuses to let the Democrats vote on that. But how is it blackmail to say, we may not agree on everything but is there anything we can agree on? We ought to agree on supporting our veterans.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cruz; shutdown; tedcruz
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To: SMGFan

“Candy, the notes please....”


101 posted on 10/06/2013 6:31:13 PM PDT by esoxmagnum (The rats have been trained to pull the D voting lever to get their little food pellet)
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To: Hattie

yes, the Maverick, and his side kick Lindsey and maybe King. They might squeeze in Mitch McConnel now and then as well.


102 posted on 10/06/2013 6:33:53 PM PDT by esoxmagnum (The rats have been trained to pull the D voting lever to get their little food pellet)
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To: Dick Bachert
1. They believe they will be princes in the new order, their lives of wealth and ease little affected by the distress inflicted on the us down here, the mass of the great unwashed. They really should restudy the histories of those who collaborated with other tyrants who, once in firm control, dispatched those who had the resources and intellect to topple the new “king” once the inclination to do so took hold of them.

2. During the Cold War, the head of Citibank, one Walter Wriston, was asked why his New York based organization continued to provide financing to the tyrants running the Soviet Union and the slave states the USSR dominated. He replied that it made little difference to him what sort of government these nations had and his only concern was “Can they pay their bills?”

You forgot . . . .

3. They're more than happy to get rid of the expense of insurance coverage for their employees and dump them all into the gubmint exchanges.

103 posted on 10/06/2013 6:34:03 PM PDT by Conservative_Rob
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To: PhiloBedo
I had to look it up. A.B. Stoddard, of The Hill.

Can anyone remember anything she's ever said?

104 posted on 10/06/2013 6:35:22 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: oldbrowser

i’m not sure where the word tactics came from but i like the fact that is sounds like tacking in sailing terms. the strategy in a sailboat race is obvious the tactics however involve calculating where on the course you will need to be to win the race. tacking is just going up windward stair steps because you can’t sail directly into the wind. maybe these guys have figured out how to do that.


105 posted on 10/06/2013 6:35:47 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (i don't believe any court in this country is operating lawfully anyway)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

We wouldn’t have been ready for Cruz and neither would the House had he come along sooner....

I sometimes think God withholds the answers and men we need because we don’t see what he wants us to see ....until we are open to see things as he wants us to we cannot handle what he has for us.


106 posted on 10/06/2013 6:48:45 PM PDT by caww
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To: Conspiracy Guy

107 posted on 10/06/2013 6:49:53 PM PDT by caww
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To: deport

Thank you for posting the videos.


108 posted on 10/06/2013 7:02:42 PM PDT by caww
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
Why? How is Cruz the same as Romney? Did you vote for O in the last election.. or did you maybe vote for O by NOT voting for anyone other than obama?
109 posted on 10/06/2013 7:03:15 PM PDT by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUS.. We are DOOMED for several generations. . Who cares? The Dem's do & voted!)
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To: pugmama

What I see in Cruz is a man who has done his work....’knows’ how gov. works AND how it should not work and for this knows how to answer.

Further he knows how the media works and journalists operate so he is prepared to “control” the conversaton where it needs it.

HE sort of reminds me of Newt in his control of what he knows and needs to be said. And like with Newt...they really don’t like to interview him because they know they can’t trip them up.


110 posted on 10/06/2013 7:08:21 PM PDT by caww
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To: erod

That’s exactly why democrats and the media use people like Crawley.....they are masters at making republicans look like idiots because many of them are....which is why Cruz looks so good in his responses. He doesn’t care if they are after him to take him down or not...he keeps on message regardless....and they are learning he’s going to do so...therefore they have to themselves be prepared or end up looking like the fools that they are.


111 posted on 10/06/2013 7:12:00 PM PDT by caww
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To: SMGFan
"Now, for hundreds of years, the way Congress is appropriated has been one topic at a time." -Sen. Ted Cruz

THAT is how the House of Representatives exercises its Constitutional power of the purse. No more "omnibus" spending bills!

112 posted on 10/06/2013 7:16:49 PM PDT by Always A Marine
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To: Bluestocking

I honestly think the journalists like Cruz....he’s a challenge to them rather than the same old talking points by politicians who don’t know crap what they’re talking about.

No thanks to Cruz being a Savior...we already have one....we don’t need to be making more of those. In fact Cruz wouldn’t be very happy if people try to make him some sort of God head.

He’s a fine statesman and would definately be great up against Hillary.....journalists/media are in part of the candidate selections...I think they may very well want to see Cruz run because it would make great story lines and be an amazing Election from start to finish.

Media has more and more identified that the public is tired of their journalistic games...and their ratings etc. are showing it....they may very well use this next election to get back in favor with the public...if they’re smart.


113 posted on 10/06/2013 7:18:38 PM PDT by caww
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To: SharpRightTurn

He showed epic restraint when Candy called Dana Bash “a big girl.”


114 posted on 10/06/2013 7:18:49 PM PDT by TropicanaRose
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To: Libloather

That “omnibus” crap is the way Progressives and RINOs instituted, hid and perpetuated the crony capitalism within the government. Solyndra and all that green crap was buried in the bowels of those omnibus or CR bills where they were not readily available for public scrutiny.


115 posted on 10/06/2013 7:37:53 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (A civilian forece funded and equal to the military ... Obama/DHS & Hitler/Gestapo & Stalin/KGB)
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To: Conservative_Rob

Damn!! (Bachert slaps his forehead...)
Thanks.


116 posted on 10/06/2013 8:48:22 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is not bliss. It is the road to serfdom.)
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To: SMGFan

Crowley has really unveiled herself to be a leftist piece of crap. In other words, a CNN reporter.


117 posted on 10/06/2013 10:39:23 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

She was unveiled years ago wasn’t she?


118 posted on 10/06/2013 10:40:20 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL

She was unveiled specifically during the last presidential debates but she has continued to amass a very visible/audible record of leftist bias since then.

If you can show a person a documented list of her transgressions, then you have won the day even if no action is taken against her.

You can’t refute the truth; only deny it.


119 posted on 10/06/2013 10:44:27 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: caww

Wow there are choices?


120 posted on 10/07/2013 12:54:22 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (What's the frequency, Kenneth?)
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