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Title: Cruz vows filibuster ‘until I am no longer able to stand’
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Washington Times
URL Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news ... until-i-am-no-longer-able-sta/
Published: Sep 24, 2013
Author: Stephen Dinan
Post Date: 2013-09-24 18:05:38 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 124
Comments: 7
Sen. Ted Cruz began a talk-a-thon on the Senate Tuesday afternoon and vowed to keep speaking “until I am no longer able to stand” as he tries to halt President Obama’s health care law. “I rise today to speak for 26 million Texans and 300 million Americans,” Mr. Cruz began. He took to the floor armed with a big black binder, thick with papers, presumably to read as he talks. He began at 2:41, and can talk up until noon tomorrow, when under the Senate rules he would have to stop and the Senate would proceed to vote on ending debate and bringing the spending bill to the floor. The bill right now includes provisions to defund Obamacare, which Mr. Cruz supports, but under the rules Democrats can strip those provisions out with a majority vote. So Mr. Cruz is trying to block the entire bill — including the parts he supports — in protest. Earlier in the day Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that what Mr. Cruz was doing should not be considered a filibuster, since he cannot actually change the floor schedule that was already locked in on Monday, and that forces the chamber to vote by Wednesday afternoon. “I want to disabuse everyone. There will be no filibuster today,” Mr. Reid said as he opened the Senate floor action for the day. Usually Mr. Reid is eager to accuse Republicans of filibusters, arguing that the GOP is using a gridlock tactic to block popular legislation. But in this case Mr. Cruz is feeding off of conservatives’ support, and Mr. Reid appears to want to try to burst their that support.
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
Not a real filibuster because whatever Cruz is doing it is not preventing or delaying any Senate process. Tomorrow around lunchtime, whether or not Cruz has run out of breath, the Senate WILL TAKE UP the matter of keeping the govt paid for, and the Senate will do this no matter what Cruz wants. So Cruz is merely spinning his wheels during Senate dead time. Very probably, if enough Senators walk out of the chamber, a quorum failure will end Cruz's public masturbation. The odd thing is that other Republicans are sending messages to news media and even to Democrats, containing negative information about Cruz, because those other Republicans want Ted Cruz to disappear.
Cruz spun it out for about 21 hours and then the Senate automatically put an end to his showboating and took up grown-up concerns. In the course of his speech, Cruz praised Ashton Kutcher, read from Dr Seuss, and tried to identify Affordable Health Care with the Nazis. It occurs to me that over the years the Rightwingers have done quite a job making the Nazis sound nice; they provided affordable health insurance, limited air pollution, invented food stamps, discouraged kids from eating junk food, discouraged cyber-bullying, etc. Anything that sounds nice, the Rightwingers will tell you the Nazis had it first!
That commenter on your blog may actually be working for the Israeli government
#2. To: X-15 (#0)
#3. To: X-15 (#0)
#4. To: Itistoolate (#3)
-Alex Kurtagic
#5. To: Shoonra (#1)
2. because those other Republicans want Ted Cruz to disappear. 1. Killjoy lie-beral. 2. RINO's want Cruz to disappear. You lie-berals are welcome to take the RINO bunch BACK to your lie-beral fold. Also take back the NeoCons to your flat bosom. 1. Not a real filibuster because whatever Cruz is doing it is not preventing or delaying any Senate process.
#6. To: Shoonra (#2)
Hey, the Zionists didn't have a problem collaborating with the Nazis to protect their ( cough, cough) "elite." The Rothchild Bankers gave Hitler all the $ he needed to start WW II. And let's not forget that the Jewdenrats also were a big help to the SS. The aforementioned were all good Lefties, Shoonra, no? Suck it up, Princess. You opened the door. Anything that sounds nice, the Rightwingers will tell you the Nazis had it first
#7. To: All (#2) (Edited)
Even McCain couldn't stomach Cruz's attempt to link the Nazis to Affordable Health Care: And, yes, I have heard those stories of the Rothschilds and others trying to ransom Jews from the Nazis and it's clear that you've garbled the whole account including the sequence of events.
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