The GOP has placed its future in the hands of a Senator with 9 months experience

[Stephanie]

lol, still whining over Cruz

you people put in a JUNIOR SENATOR OF LESS THAN FOUR years to RUN OUR COUNTRY

So you all can blow out your asses about someone with little experience

and we have been SUFFERING from it ever since

NOW look at him shutting us out of our parks, memorials, etc etc

that is the actions of someone WHO HATES US and is one vindictive SOB

 

[boedicca]

Wow Ted Cruz was able to shut down the government basically all by himself with less than a year of experience in the Senate impressive. If he was able to steamroll both the House Republicans and Senate Democrats on this who knows he might make a good President.

I bet his Unicorn can totally kick Obama's in the ass.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Radicals and reactionaries, left and right, have to be outed.

Boehner will order an up and down vote without preconditions on the budget.

Inevitable.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Got back to SLC earlier today.

The whole town is pissed, I gather, mostly at the GOP, and this state is red.

 

[Darkwind]

Allow who to dictate a government shut down?

There are only two people responsible for the government partial shutdown.

Obama and Reid.

Obama now has 5 years experience and Reid has far too many years to even be cognizant of his surroundings.

Republicans, Obama and the democrats are all to blame. Republicans just have the nerve to throw 800k people out of work for such a stupid reason.

Both parties are full of radicals and this is quickly becoming about who can go the other direction the furthest. To hell with the workers and status of our nation within the world...

Fuck science
Fuck the economy
fuck sanity

the problem with being a radical is it isn't logical.

Yet another who cannot see the forest for the trees.

It wasn't the Republicans.. Write to your Senators....

BTW....I have a feeling that those 800k people will be just fine. The economy has sucked for 6 years, NOW your are concerned?

Science?

What, are you a test tube cleaner and worried about your job?

 

[Dutch]

The way he is pissing off the old guard of the party I would not be surprised to find a dead hooker or a bag of coke in his office sometime soon

 

[deltex1]

All the repubs are asking for now is a delay of the individual mandate and an end to subsidies for congressmen. Is that too much for the king to abide?

 

[rightwinger]

The Dems put their future in a Senator with 20 months of experience.

Math is not your best subject?

I deduct time spent playing golf, on vacation, voting present, and campaigning.

I figure he spent 20 months (on the generous side) doing actual work since 1997.

I am right...math is not your best subject

 

[Darkwind]

All the repubs are asking for now is a delay of the individual mandate and an end to subsidies for congressmen. Is that too much for the king to abide?

Apparently so.

It appears that the Senate isn't interested in keeping the government functioning.

 

[rightwinger]

Think of it as a poker game

The Republican Party has gambled their whole bankroll on the advice of a Senator with nine months political experience. Even though everyone knows hey hold a pair of dueces

 

[rightwinger]

Are they freaking crazy?

They allow him to dictate that we should shut down the government?

Idiots that voted for Obama put him in the WH with less experience.

Good point

The Democrats backed Obama with four years experience and ended up with a two term President

Republicans are hooking their future to a Tea Bagger with nine months of political experience. The result is a splintered Republican Party and an outraged American public

What are these guys thinking?

 

[zeke]

All the repubs are asking for now is a delay of the individual mandate and an end to subsidies for congressmen. Is that too much for the king to abide?

They are just asking for those little things eh?
And if they get them, they (Repubs) are willing to fund the government and pay the governments bills.

And you think using the faith and credit of the country as a bargaining item is a good thing?

In other words, you will "understand" when, some day in the future, the Dems use it as a bargaining chip for something they want to stop. They will hold the economy hostage. Offer petty little bills to show how hard they are working.

But they (Dems) will bring the economy to a halt. Shut er down. They will have learned how from the Repubs.

And your're good with that? Why?

You all better be glad we have a President that understands that, on this item, the faith and credit of the country, there won't be any negotiating.

You'll be glad one day.

 

[tinydancer]

Are they freaking crazy?

They allow him to dictate that we should shut down the government?

Aye carumba! 9 months experience?



You haven't read his bio or resume have you? It kicks ass man. You look like a complete fool posting this thread.

 

[velvtacheeze]

Are they freaking crazy?

They allow him to dictate that we should shut down the government?

He's been Canadian longer.

 

[Montecresto]

Are they freaking crazy?

They allow him to dictate that we should shut down the government?

There are bills in the senate right now to fund your dear leaders stated priorities and he refuses to take yes for an answer, so he is the one keeping government workers at home.

They're non-essential Tex, we don't need them, it's no big deal. But yeah, he's some bodies stupid dear leader, from behind even, lol.

 

[Mustang]

Are they freaking crazy?

They allow him to dictate that we should shut down the government?

Sometimes when politicians think they've found a winning issue that riles up the voters, they like to keep beating that drum in the hope that it will turn out the voters in an election. Conservatives have used social issues like that for many many years. But it's a good idea not to get to complacent because you never know what could happen if you lose control of the narrative. For example, constantly running against gay rights by demonizing gays has kind of backfired on conservatives in recent years.

And Obamacare seems to have gotten away from them too. I think they like running against it, but most Republicans never wanted it to get out of hand like this.

But along comes Calgary Cruz, and he sees an issue he can demagogue and naturally raise his profile at the same time. It shouldn't be a surprise either. Talk radio keeps conservatives constantly riled up about a host of issues, and they're so wound up like a coiled spring that it wouldn't take much prodding to get them to join a grass roots movement to push for some whacked out idea like shutting the gov't down. And here we are.

So, imagine you're a Republican House member who's been watching this movement gain steam on the heels of all the calls to primary representatives who seem to be failing the ideological purity test over the last couple of election cycles, and you REALLY want to get reelected cuz it ain't such a bad job being a Congressman in a not so good economy. And here you've been whippin' up the masses just like everyone else because you've been thinking that you can ride that dissatisfation to victory next year when something happens that you hadn't forseen. Cruz comes along and overturns your conservative apple cart and messes up your plans. If you argue for reason, you'll be considered a persona non grata turncoat next fall. So, lke a lemming you fall in line, just like in one of those banana republic countries, just hoping that someone else can save the nation you care about almost as much as you care about your career.

 

[Stephanie]

Are they freaking crazy?

They allow him to dictate that we should shut down the government?

Sometimes when politicians think they've found a winning issue that riles up the voters, they like to keep beating that drum in the hope that it will turn out the voters in an election. Conservatives have used social issues like that for many many years. But it's a good idea not to get to complacent because you never know what could happen if you lose control of the narrative. For example, constantly running against gay rights by demonizing gays has kind of backfired on conservatives in recent years.

And Obamacare seems to have gotten away from them too. I think they like running against it, but most Republicans never wanted it to get out of hand like this.

But along comes Calgary Cruz, and he sees an issue he can demagogue and naturally raise his profile at the same time. It should be a surprise either. Talk radio keeps conservatives constantly riled up about a host of issues, and their so wound up like a coiled spring that it wouldn't take much prodding to get them to join a grass roots movement to push for some whacked out idea like shutting the gov't down. And here we are.

So, imagine you're a Republican House member who's been watching this movement gain steam on the heels of all the calls to primary representatives who seem to be failing the ideological purity test over the last couple of election cycles, and you REALLY want to get reelected cuz it ain't such a bad job being a Congressman in a not so good economy. And here you've been whippin' up the masses just like everyone else because you've been thinking that you can ride that dissatisfation to victory next year when something happens that you hadn't forseen. Cruz comes along and overturns your conservative apple cart and messes up your plans. If you argue for reason, you'll be considered a persona non grata turncoat next fall. So, lke a lemming you fall in line, just like in one of those banana republic countries just hoping that someone else can save the nation you care about almost as much as you care about your career.

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I had to laugh at this line

Sometimes when politicians think they've found a winning issue that riles up the voters, they like to keep beating that drum in the hope that it will turn out the voters in an election.

YOU ALL need to look in a MIRROR...thread after thread on this shut down by YOU the left/Democrats


you all are Subjects and SHEEP for the Democrat party...

 

[ScienceRocks]

Cancer research is being cut because of this fucking shut down. Blood is on the hands of the house and senate.

 

[Darkwind]

Are they freaking crazy?

They allow him to dictate that we should shut down the government?

Aye carumba! 9 months experience?



You haven't read his bio or resume have you? It kicks ass man. You look like a complete fool posting this thread.

Well, to be fair.

Not just this thread......

 

[tinydancer]

Oh yeah. Cruz the nobody.



Cruz was a partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice.[5]

Between 1999 and 2003, Cruz served as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice, and as Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.

In addition, Cruz was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation, from 2004 to 2009.

Oh yeah, to libs this guy's a lightweight. A nobody.

Texas Solicitor General

Appointed to the office of Solicitor General of Texas by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott,Cruz served in that position from 2003 to 2008.

Cruz has authored more than 80 United States Supreme Court briefs and presented 43 oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court. Cruz's record of having argued before the Supreme Court nine times is more than any practicing lawyer in Texas or any current member of Congress.


Cruz has commented on his nine cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court: "We ended up year after year arguing some of the biggest cases in the country. There was a degree of serendipity in that, but there was also a concerted effort to seek out and lead conservative fights."

In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz drafted the amicus brief signed by attorneys general of 31 states, which said that the D.C. handgun ban should be struck down as infringing upon the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

Cruz also presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

In addition to his victory in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the constitutionality of Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds before the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 5-4 in Van Orden v. Perry.

Cruz authored a U.S. Supreme Court brief for all 50 states successfully defending the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools, winning 9-0 in Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow.

Cruz served as lead counsel for the state and successfully defended the multiple litigation challenges to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan in state and federal district courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 5-4 in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry.

Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States.

Cruz has been named by American Lawyer magazine as one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America, by The National Law Journal as one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America, and by Texas Lawyer as one of the 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century

Ted Cruz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia