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By Hayes Brown
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Wednesday raised fears that the shutdown of the federal government that he helped launch could potentially lead to an attack on the United States of America, calling on his fellow senators to to pass a separate resolution funding the Defense Department.
Cruz was speaking at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee related to reforms of the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act. Earlier in the hearing, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper informed members of the committee that the federal shutdown had caused the suspension of the 70 percent of the intelligence communitys civilian work force. In response, Cruz suggested that a miniature continuing resolution funding only the Department of Defense and the intelligence community could be passed through the Senate today. I dont believe President Obama should be playing politics with this, he said. He shouldnt be refusing to negotiate or compromise.
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What Cruz did not mention during his speech was that the he is the reason a separate bill would be needed at all. For weeks, he and his allies in the House and Senate have insisted that any continuing resolution that fund the government past Sept. 30 would have to remove funding for the Affordable Care Act. Just last week, he launched a 21 hour speech, dubbed a faux-libuster to convince his Republican colleagues to hold the line on stripping Obamacare from the continuing resolution. Hes also paid for numerous ads on cable television denouncing Obamacare and imploring that watchers call their senators to oppose funding it.
A clean continuing resolution including funding for not only Obamacare but also the Departments of Defense, State, Veterans Affairs, and the entirety of federal operations has always been the goal of the White House and Senate Democrats. When their demands were not met, the government shut down on Tuesday, leading to the furloughs that Cruz denounced as threatening Americas safety.
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/10/02/2719221/ted-cruz-warns-that-the-shutdown-he-caused-could-lead-to-attack-on-us/
Ted Cruz = Fucking Moron.
Republican shutdown is not playing well in Peoria. Or Kansas City. Or Sacramento. Or ...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023767797
DinahMoeHum
(21,794 posts)warrprayer
(4,734 posts)ARE f'ckin terrorists
louis-t
(23,295 posts)Teabaggers who are destroying our country are being called "Ted Cruze Republicans".....by their own party.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)Wow. He must be getting really desperate to be playing the fear card so soon. Fear mongering has been working so well lately. hahahahahaha!
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)Cuban-Canadian traitor. We need a Tower of Washington where he can rot away. He is pure evil.
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,035 posts)Avalux
(35,015 posts)Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)So fuck you.
Rex
(65,616 posts)There already WAS a terrorist attack...your fucking LOSER party has been using economic terrorism on America for 30 FUCKING YEARS!
STFU and go beg your wife for some more money.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)My word.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Hugin
(33,164 posts)Or is this an invitation and you are a traitor? A LIHOPer?
Note: This tirade is directed at Cruz and not at the OP of this thread.
Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)His projecting. hyperbolic rhetoric, full of irony aqnd cynicism is well within the Teabagger sweet spot.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)The Tea Party and these extremist republicans are the domestic enemy that the "Constitution" warned about!
The republicans are carrying out another bloodless coup (just like the 2000 Election fiasco) and we're sitting here watching it unfold on the 24-hour news channels. I can't understand why more of us citizens are not as upset as I am!
President Obama and the Executive Branch should take the steps necessary to protect the country from these people - In any other country, some of the loudest voices supporting this government Shutdown and fanning the flames of discontent would be "disappeared".
But things like that don't happen here in the United States.............
ProSense
(116,464 posts)MiniMe
(21,717 posts)And the repubs are the cause of it. Pass a clean funding bill dummies
ladjf
(17,320 posts)others for treason by aiding and/or abetting terrorism.
Initech
(100,081 posts)After all one of Osama bin Laden's stated goals was to bankrupt America. By contrast the republicans accomplished what he set out to do!