Ted was on at 5:38AM ET when I tuned in. A few minutes later, Mike Lee came on. Now (6:40AM) Marco Rubio is on. Defunding ObamaCare was the single reason we gave the House the majority in 2010, but the House has never allowed a vote to defund ObamaCare.
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9/25/13, "Ted Cruz Talking Filibuster in progress (Live Thread)," Free Republic
"LIVE VIDEO
(Excerpt) Read more at c-span.org ..."
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Among comments:
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"The rubber is meeting the road right now! Let's see who shows up on the floor to support him as he goes on.
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"To: Timber Rattler
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He is doing what I elected him to do. If the media and the GOP-E don't like it, they can pound sand./johnny
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"To: Timber Rattler
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Go Ted Go!!!
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"To: JRandomFreeper
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posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2013 2:59:45 PM
by HurriKane
(You will suffer in the world. But take courage! I have overcome the world.)"
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During filibuster Ted Cruz cites recent Ashton Kutcher speech in praise of hard work:
During filibuster Ted Cruz cites recent Ashton Kutcher speech in praise of hard work:
9/25/13, "Senator Ted Cruz in marathon speech against Obama health law," BBC
"To fill the time, the first-term senator covered a range of subjects, sharing with the largely empty chamber his penchant for the little hamburgers at fast-food chain White Castle; quoting from a reality television show, Duck Dynasty, as well as lyrics by country singer Toby Keith; and praising a recent acceptance speech by actor Ashton Kutcher on the value of hard work."...
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To protect ObamaCare from being
defunded, the House GOP establishment stuck the defunding bill in a GOP
controlled committee and wouldn't let it out. The only reason we gave them the majority in Nov. 2010 was so they could defund ObamaCare. And they laughed in our face:
9/29/11, "Draft spending bill would defund Obama healthcare law," The Hill, Sam Baker
"House Republicans released a draft spending bill Thursday that would cut off funding for many parts of the healthcare reform law, though the bill remains deadlocked in the Appropriations Committee."...
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"House Republicans released a draft spending bill Thursday that would cut off funding for many parts of the healthcare reform law, though the bill remains deadlocked in the Appropriations Committee."...
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Comment: This is how I explain ObamaCare: George
Bush and his crowd for 8 years cavalierly destroyed both the Republican
Party and the country. After the 2008 elections, there were almost no Republicans left in the House. Deservedly so. This freak occurrence in the House allowed a freak
voting procedure that enabled ObamaCare to pass even though it really
wasn't about health care and the American people didn't want it. People
joke about things being "Bush's fault" and ObamaCare really was. Then
came the Nov. 2010 elections in which we gave the GOP House all it
needed to defund ObamaCare. This didn't mean taking an up or down vote
on the whole bill, it meant defunding it. The House has 100% discretion
to do this--not half of one third or the like. Guess what? GOP
leadership wouldn't allow the subject to be mentioned on the floor,
still hasn't. Boehner put an ObamaCare defunding measure in the GOP controlled House Appropriations committee where it was "deadlocked"
for over a year. Right. That's how much the GOP establishment including
the Bush crowd, Fox News and Rupert Murdoch, hates this country and
ordinary Americans. This doesn't even get into the details of ObamaCare.
We're an advanced nation of 300 million people being treated like
unwashed street urchins. It's got to stop. Bankers, lobbyists, and
EuroTrash now control this country. We need to get it back.
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In June 2007, Peggy Noonan said George Bush #1 and #2 had destroyed the Republican Party, and since at least 2004 the grassroots had more than ample reason to leave the Bush crowd. Her own separation from the Bush admin. began in Jan. 2005:
6/2/2007, "Too bad," Wall St. Journal column by Peggy Noonan:
"What political conservatives and on-the-ground Republicans must understand at this point is that they are not breaking with the White House on immigration. They are not resisting, fighting and thereby setting down a historical marker -- "At this point the break became final." That's not what's happening. What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition. This is sad, and it holds implications not only for one political party but for the American future.
The White House doesn't need its traditional supporters anymore, because its problems are way beyond being solved by the base. And the people in the administration don't even much like the base."...
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In June 2007, Peggy Noonan said George Bush #1 and #2 had destroyed the Republican Party, and since at least 2004 the grassroots had more than ample reason to leave the Bush crowd. Her own separation from the Bush admin. began in Jan. 2005:
6/2/2007, "Too bad," Wall St. Journal column by Peggy Noonan:
"What political conservatives and on-the-ground Republicans must understand at this point is that they are not breaking with the White House on immigration. They are not resisting, fighting and thereby setting down a historical marker -- "At this point the break became final." That's not what's happening. What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition. This is sad, and it holds implications not only for one political party but for the American future.
The White House doesn't need its traditional supporters anymore, because its problems are way beyond being solved by the base. And the people in the administration don't even much like the base."...
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