From the WashingtonTimes.com:
By Tom Howell Jr., The Washington Times
House Republicans survived a key test vote Thursday on their plan to keep the government running while trying to halt the health care law, defying a veto threat from President Obama and inching closer to a shutdown showdown with Senate Democrats.
Top Republicans say their party’s strategy is unlikely to succeed and not worth shutting down the government, but some rank-and-file lawmakers said they have to draw a line now and use the leverage of the spending bill to end the president’s signature achievement.
Ted Cruz hit the nail on the head during an interview with Hugh Hewitt. In one reply, Senator Cruz stated:
TC: . . . every day it becomes clearer and clearer that this thing isn’t working, that more and more Americans are losing their jobs, are not getting hired in the first place. More and more Americans are finding themselves forcibly reduced to 29 hours a week. More and more Americans are seeing skyrocketing health insurance premiums. And more and more Americans are losing their health insurance altogether. And as you noted, the fact that the unions are jumping ship, I mean, there is bipartisan agreement that it isn’t working, and President Obama has already lawlessly granted exemptions for big corporations and for members of Congress. And this fight over defunding Obamacare in one sentence is about if President Obama will grant waivers to big corporations and members of Congress, why would President Obama threaten to shut down the federal government in order to deny those same waivers to hard-working American families?
Correct: if Obamacare is so wonderful, why are there any exemptions whatsoever, to either corporations who donated to Mr Obama’s campaign, or any DC politician and their staffs? If Obamacare is so wonderful, inclusive, less expensive and more efficient, why would there be any exemptions at all?
I think you know that answer.
And finally: a filibuster?
BZ
P.S.
This just in:
Democratic Official Allan Brauer Wishes Death on Ted Cruz Aide’s Children
BY:
Allan Brauer, the communications chair for the Democratic Party of Sacramento, Calif., told an aide to Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Tex.) on Friday that he hoped her children “die from debilitating, painful and incurable diseases.”
@amandacarpenter May your children all die from debilitating, painful and incurable diseases.
— allanbrauer (@allanbrauer) September 20, 2013
He followed up the attack with a series of vicious tweets:
Busy blocking the tapeworms that have slithered out of hellspawn @amandacarpenter‘s asshole. How’s your day so far?
— allanbrauer (@allanbrauer) September 20, 2013
I’m being attacked on Twitter for wishing one of Ted Cruz’s pubic lice to experience the pain her boss is inflicting on Americans.
— allanbrauer (@allanbrauer) September 20, 2013
Ah, those loving, understanding, compassionate, sensitive, tender, kind and all-inclusive Demorats and Leftists, embracing and considerate of all persons’ feelings and opinions.
It must be a miserable life to be a despicable Democrat, having to wish death, of ANY kind, other the children of GOP and Conservative law makers…
I don’t know what it will take to wake America up but if things like this, and that asshole in Kansas that wished death on the children of NRA members isn’t enough to wake America up, it’s too late to save America…
Texas secession is looking better every day…
Isn’t it, though.
BZ
Amen Fred.
I’ll meet ya at the Alamo.