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Will Boehner & McConnell allow Cruz & King to set the GOP immigration agenda-- no matter what the cost?
Ted Cruz has a vision: President Ted Cruz, the first U.S. President born in another country. From a family of Cuban fascists who found Texas compatible with their authoritarian ideology, Cruz is eager to implement a plan to force Obama to rescind his executive action delaying the deportation of Hispanic and Asian immigrants whose children are U.S. citizens. Right wing propaganda writer Byron York, writing for the Washington Examiner, a Republican weekly owned by fascist Denver billionaire Philip Anschutz, explained Cruz's seemly demented strategy in his column Friday.
York delves into the question of why Republicans want to fight Obama now while Democrats still control the Senate instead of waiting a few weeks when the GOP has a 54-seat majority and can start passing all the deranged legislation that comes out of the House. "When Republicans, or conservatives, or anyone else," he wrote, "announce what they think Mitch McConnell and John Boehner should do in the next few weeks, they should remember that right now Republicans have the same strength and numbers they had in October 2013, when they lost the government shutdown fight." He notes that the extremists, led by Cruz, have nearly as little trust in McConnell and Boehner to force Obama's hand as they do in Reid and Pelosi.
"I think we should fund virtually the entire federal government," Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, a leader in the last shutdown fight, said at a Capitol Hill rally Wednesday. "We should, however, not be funding illegal amnesty." As he did in the Obamacare fight, Cruz wants to see the House attach a rider defunding the immigration action to a spending bill-- a measure that has to be passed by Dec. 11 for the government to stay open-- and send it to the Democratic Senate. What happens after that, after Majority Leader Reid rejects it, is not clear.
Cruz advocates action now, he says, because GOP leaders can't be trusted to fight on immigration next year. "Even with a Republican House and Senate, the same folks who are saying 'Gosh, we can't do anything now' in January are going to say 'Gosh, we dont have 60 votes in the Senate,' " Cruz continued. "It's like Charlie Brown and Lucy."
Cruz advocates action now, he says, because GOP leaders can't be trusted to fight on immigration next year. "Even with a Republican House and Senate, the same folks who are saying 'Gosh, we can't do anything now' in January are going to say 'Gosh, we dont have 60 votes in the Senate,' " Cruz continued. "It's like Charlie Brown and Lucy."
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RW Strategy: "Making Themselves Look Good To The Heritage Action/Purity-For-Profit Crowd" (NSFW) (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Dec 2014
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Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)1. MY EYES MY EYES DEAR GOD MY EYES
PUT A WARNING IN YOUR OP, GOOD GOD MAN
MiniMe
(21,709 posts)2. I'm for rescinding the executive order as long as they start with Cruz
Deport him now before he does more damage to the US