Cruz announces plan B for defunding Obamacare: ‘Shut down the military’
By David Edwards
Sunday, September 22, 2013 10:30 EDT
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Sunday warned Senate Republicans that refusing to filibuster a bill that defunds President Barack Obama’s health care reform law “is a vote for Obamacare,” and he also advised House Republicans to “shut down the military” if they had to.
After a summer of insisting that Republicans should pass a budget that would defund Obamacare or shut down the government if the president refused to sign it, Cruz got exactly what he wanted last week. House Republicans rallied behind a continuing resolution that stripped funding from the Affordable Care Act, but Senate Democrats were expected to add funding back or refuse to pass the measure.
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 Boehner and House Republicans, listening to the people and stopping this train wreck that is Obamacare.”
Wallace pressed Cruz on his “end game” if Senate Democrats did pass a budget with funding for the health care law and sent it back to the House.
“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.
it's be cool if the US empire tore itself apart over a shitty watered down health care reform law. 
he also advised House Republicans to “shut down the military” if they had to.
“Send it over, see if Harry Reid is willing to shut down the military,” he quipped.
Shut down the military? looks like ted cruz is the most leftist person in the senate.
*Bbbut...some of them were in the closet homosexuals, and some of them believe in the Bible, and they say dumb things on Fox News and act like old white men instead of the cool young black man*
-Jon Stewart
babyhueypnewton posted:Republican discipline and ideological commitment in opposing the warmonger and health care company/wall street lobbyist Barack Obama is inspiring. By opposing the war in Syria, the wall street bailouts, Obamacare, drones, the NSA, etc the Republicans have done more for the good of humanity in the last 5 years than the Democrats ever have done.
*Bbbut...some of them were in the closet homosexuals, and some of them believe in the Bible, and they say dumb things on Fox News and act like old white men instead of the cool young black man*
shit mayne, it's almost like this is exactly the reaction the republicans would like to hear from dumb americans. but marxists? ahahah. no analysis of the state as it is, we'll just side with some speeches and shit. republican "discipline" ahahhaah jesus christ
babyhueypnewton posted:Republican discipline and ideological commitment in opposing the warmonger and health care company/wall street lobbyist Barack Obama is inspiring. By opposing the war in Syria, the wall street bailouts, Obamacare, drones, the NSA, etc the Republicans have done more for the good of humanity in the last 5 years than the Democrats ever have done.
look, i think Republican obstructionism has been in many respects a good thing for pragmatic reasons but let's not get ahead of ourselves here.
- Republicans flip-flopped on Syria when Obama made that deal w/ Putin and quickly portrayed Obama as an appeaser.
- Republicans never opposed the wall st. bailouts
- More Dems voted to defund the NSA than Republicans
so while we have some encouraging anti-war/anti-surveillance sentiment from Ron & Rand Paul and other assorted libertarians and paleocons, we still have a lot of general opportunism from most of the GOP.
babyhueypnewton posted:Republican discipline and ideological commitment in opposing the warmonger and health care company/wall street lobbyist Barack Obama is inspiring. By opposing the war in Syria, the wall street bailouts, Obamacare, drones, the NSA, etc the Republicans have done more for the good of humanity in the last 5 years than the Democrats ever have done.
*Bbbut...some of them were in the closet homosexuals, and some of them believe in the Bible, and they say dumb things on Fox News and act like old white men instead of the cool young black man*
you seriously need to find a new hobby because you really suck at this
tpaine posted:Someone make an mspaint gif of a boat called The Ted Cruise and animate a bunch of friggin' smilies with the names of prominent rhizzoners eagerly shuffling on board. for the win
i've done this and put it in the premium members subforum.
tpaine posted:getfiscal posted:tpaine posted:Someone make an mspaint gif of a boat called The Ted Cruise and animate a bunch of friggin' smilies with the names of prominent rhizzoners eagerly shuffling on board. for the win
i've done this and put it in the premium members subforum.
but i thought that forum was for the best dick pics?
its for two things
tpaine posted:but i thought that forum was for the best dick pics?
the cruise ship was actually my dong
gyrofry posted:
haha i laughed so hard at this when i was literally 13
getfiscal posted:jason alexander turns 54 today which means he was 30 when seinfeld premiered, meaning that i'm about the same age as george, and could be compared unfavourably to him in life and looks.
i realized this same thing while watching the 'feld the other day (the age thing, not the looks thing, although more than one person has told me i resemble a young julia louis-dreyfus) and it made me Really Sad
tpaine posted:all the seinfeld guys were old when it started. fucking kramer was 40
Where'd the years go
I dunno
"uggh, the kung pao pork, fried rice, and oyster chicken wings were not a good combination"
tpaine posted:nicebro.jpg
what does it say about me as a person if my first reaction to seeing that is a pavlonian salivation response and wondering what it would be like to put that in my mouth.
AmericanNazbro posted:tpaine posted:nicebro.jpg
what does it say about me as a person if my first reaction to seeing that is a pavlonian salivation response and wondering what it would be like to put that in my mouth.
that you touch urself at night haha