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Related: About this forumTed Cruz Unveils Brilliant Plan To Fight Obamacare By 'Shutting Down The Military'
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In a Sunday interview, Cruz told Fox News host Chris Wallace that Senate Republicans should stand together and refuse to vote for cloture by filibustering if Democrats added Obamacare funding to the bill.
Any vote for cloture, any vote to allow Harry Reid to add funding to Obamacare with just a 51-vote threshold, a vote for cloture is a vote for Obamacare, Cruz insisted. And I think Senate Republicans are going to stand side-by-side with Speaker [John] Boehner and House Republicans, listening to the people and stopping this train wreck that is Obamacare.
Wallace pressed Cruz on his end game Because the government is going to shut down a week from Monday, the Fox News host pointed out.
If Harry Reid kills the bill in the Senate, the House should hold its ground, and should begin passing smaller continuing resolutions, one department at a time, Cruz explained. It should start with a continuing resolution focused on the military. Send it over, see if Harry Reid is willing to shut down the military, he quipped.
Watch it for yourself. For bonus giggles, pay attention to Chris Wallace uncomfortably trying to explain Senate rules to Sen. Cruz.
http://www.alan.com/2013/09/22/ted-cruz-unveils-brilliant-plan-to-fight-obamacare-by-shutting-down-the-military/
Warpy
(111,381 posts)mounted backwards on a mule, broom in hand, shouting CHARGE! at a wind farm.
The mule looks bored, slightly skeptical, and disinclined to budge.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)itsrobert
(14,157 posts)that not funding the military would put the US in an imminent threat to enemies foreign and domestic and as the President has the authority to take any action to defend US.
Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)by foreign terrorists who want to kill Americans.
Thats how he should make the case--just as an ignorant tea freak like Batsh** Bachmann would make the case on Cluster Faux: (Obama wants terrorists to kill Americans).
Throw it right back in their slimy faces.
Thats what depresses me sometimes about Mr. O. He doesn't throw it back at them when they make claims the HE wants to shut down the government--which is what the ignorant constituents believe.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Why can't the good people of Texas see this bum for what he is and kick his butt to the curb. We are better than Cruz, lets get him out.
yuiyoshida
(41,867 posts)That 90% of all Americans think OBAMA CARE will bring down this Nation... and Destroy the Economy. I bet there is IS NONE.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)Or an artists rendering of Cruz being attacked by someone from John Boners office?
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)Rhiannon12866
(206,265 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)he was voted into office. nuff said.
meow2u3
(24,774 posts)The more I hear him, the more I'm convinced he's trying to overthrow the constitutional government and make himself dictator. In other words, he's a wannabe tyrant, plain and simple.
bonniebgood
(943 posts)did the teabag ever ask him to show his birth certificate? Accuse him of being an American? or any dem on tv or other accuse him of being unamerican?