CRUZADE: DEFUNDING EFFORT NEARING 30 VOTES IN SENATE

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Breitbart:

According to sources on the Hill, there is growing support among Senate Republicans to support Sens. Cruz and Lee's efforts to scuttle Sen. Harry Reid's attempt to reinstate ObamaCare funding in the House Continuing Resolution. On Friday, the Senate is set to vote for cloture on the CR, which, if successful, will then allow Reid to resurrect ObamaCare funding with a simple majority. The effort by Cruz and Lee will most likely fail, but each additional GOP Senator that joins their block is another vote against Senate GOP Leadership.

This is not the place to unpack the confused and convoluted Senate rules. On Friday, the Senate will vote to end debate on the House CR that defunds ObamaCare. After that vote, the Senate will consider amendments to the bill and vote for final passage, all of which requires 51 votes. Ordinarily, the cloture vote would come after all amendments have been considered. The early cloture vote allows Reid to amend the bill and move to final passage on a partisan vote.

Technically, a vote for cloture on Friday would move the House CR forward to the point that Sen. Reid can reinstate ObamaCare funding. Were he to lose the cloture vote, he would have no ability to do this. Sens. Cruz, Lee and their allies have drawn a line in the sand and will vote against cloture, i.e. they will not vote to move the bill to where Reid can reinstate ObamaCare.

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I guess he got 19 votes against.

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I guess he got 19 votes against.

Cowards!

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Head to the Barn Juan McRhino http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=205251

 

 

 

Investor’s Business Daily editorial predicts disaster if Reach for the Sky McLame and company are left in leadership.

 

There’s a new sheriff from Texas in town.

 

Time to ride off into the sunset for the We Lost on Obamacare Kid.

 

IBD: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/092513-672496-if-younger-gop-generation-doesnt-rise-third-party-will.htm

 

Sept. 24 and 25, 2013, should live in infamy for GOP McCainiacs. The subtext of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's 21-hour-long filibuster could be a paraphrase of JFK's inaugural address:

 

"The torch has been passed to a new generation of Republicans, unwilling to permit the slow undoing of the constitutional rights to which this nation has always been committed."

 

Where were "old guard" Senate Republicans as Cruz gave his heart on the Senate floor for nearly a full day? They were snoozing, counting the sheep they so closely identify with, instead of standing with Cruz and his allies, like Mike Lee of Utah, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Jeff Sessions of Alabama.

 

Cruz wasn't long off the floor before Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a war hero, raised a white flag in one of the most disgraceful Senate speeches ever delivered.

 

Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., aptly called it "the Democratic response" to Cruz. It can be summed up in two of McCain's own defeatist words: "We lost."

He even absurdly attacked Cruz's apt comparison of those opposing ObamaCare defunding to Britain's Nazi appeasers, claiming it insulted his father and grandfather, who fought against Germany.

 

Instead of breaking Reagan's 11th Commandment, "Thou shalt not speak ill of thy fellow Republican," McCain might want to recall his 2008 election loss by more than 9 million votes.

But this week, Ted Cruz gave America a look at the GOP future, in all its boldness and common sense.

 

We hear Arizona has many fine retirement homes, Sen. McCain. Time to pass the torch.