Ted Cruz: ‘Why is President Obama threatening to shut down the federal govt?"

[240 is Back]

ABout time we see some republicans with BALLS. 

Ted Cruz: ‘Why is President Obama threatening to shut down the federal government?’

Source: Raw Story

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Tuesday argued that President Barack Obama and Democrats, not Republicans, were the ones trying to shut down the federal government because he insisted on funding a health care reform law that was passed in 2010.

Last week, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) called on Republicans to refuse to vote on a continuing resolution to fund the government if included any funding for Obamacare. Cruz said that the government should be shut down unless the Affordable Care Act was “fully” defunded.

“Under no circumstances will I support a continuing resolution that funds even one penny of Obamacare,” Cruz told The Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. “In order to win this fight, we need to get 41 Republicans in the Senate to make the same commitment or we need 218 Republicans in the House.”

“The next step will be that President Obama and Harry Reid will scream and yell, ‘Why are those mean and nasty Republicans threatening to shut down the government over Obamacare?’” he continued. “And at that point, we’ve actually got to stand up and fight.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/30/ted-cruz-why-is-president-obama-threatening-to-shut-down-the-federal-government/

[Straw Man]

No balls at all

just another crybaby trying to deflect his own deeds and blame them on someone else

The Affordable Care act is the law and Congress has a mandate to fund it

If Cruz wants to shut down the government instead of funding it then he should at least have the balls to admit that is what he is doing instead of trying to blame it on Obama

[Soul Crusher]

No balls at all

just another crybaby trying to deflect his own deeds and blame them on someone else

The Affordable Care act is the law and Congress has a mandate to fund it

If Cruz wants to shut down the government instead of funding it then he should at least have the balls to admit that is what he is doing instead of trying to blame it on Obama

[chadstallion]

with two nice cars parked outside.

[headhuntersix]

No balls? Your guy is the biggest whiny bitch ever. No use revisiting the last 5 years...why isn't he involved with the mid east peace talks? I suspect because he has no clue what the hell he's doing.

[avxo]

ABout time we see some republicans with BALLS. 

Ted Cruz: ‘Why is President Obama threatening to shut down the federal government?’

Source: Raw Story

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Tuesday argued that President Barack Obama and Democrats, not Republicans, were the ones trying to shut down the federal government because he insisted on funding a health care reform law that was passed in 2010.

Last week, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) called on Republicans to refuse to vote on a continuing resolution to fund the government if included any funding for Obamacare. Cruz said that the government should be shut down unless the Affordable Care Act was “fully” defunded.

“Under no circumstances will I support a continuing resolution that funds even one penny of Obamacare,” Cruz told The Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. “In order to win this fight, we need to get 41 Republicans in the Senate to make the same commitment or we need 218 Republicans in the House.”

“The next step will be that President Obama and Harry Reid will scream and yell, ‘Why are those mean and nasty Republicans threatening to shut down the government over Obamacare?’” he continued. “And at that point, we’ve actually got to stand up and fight.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/30/ted-cruz-why-is-president-obama-threatening-to-shut-down-the-federal-government/

I don't like Obamacare one bit - I wish it were repealed and we could have an honest and rational debate about what to do with healthcare going forward, because, really, there are things that we can and should do, and that includes things that the government can and should do to help improve the situation.

But it's silly to argue that the other side is threatening to shut down the Federal Government if you just finished championing the "shutdown the Federal Government" movement. It is, no doubt, wonderful rhetoric which will play well in the era of the 24 hours news cycle and the hyper-partisan blogs. But it's also very, very silly.