“Cruz to House Conservatives: Oppose Boehner”:
On a Thursday conference call, a group of House conservatives consulted with Senator Ted Cruz of Texas about how to respond to the leadership’s fiscal strategy. Sources who were on the call say Cruz strongly advised them to oppose it, and hours later, Speaker John Boehner’s plan fizzled.
It’s the latest example of Cruz leading the House’s right flank.
The private call came together after Boehner unveiled his strategy at a Republican conference meeting earlier this week. Boehner’s plan — to focus on a debt-limit package, rather than a drawn-out CR battle — made many conservatives uneasy. As they mulled a response, they reached out to Cruz.
On the call, Cruz told them that Boehner was making a mistake, and urged his friends to fight until the end on the CR. The group agreed, and they complained that Boehner’s shift to the debt limit was a diversion. Senator Mike Lee of Utah joined Cruz on the call, and both senators said they’d stand with House conservatives as they opposed the leadership.
By the call’s end, there was a consensus: until the CR talks are complete, Republicans should whip “no” on Boehner’s debt-limit plan, as a way of preventing the leadership from directing the strategy. And that’s exactly what happened late Thursday afternoon: GOP whip Kevin McCarthy worked the floor, but couldn’t find the votes for Boehner’s debt-limit plan. After McCarthy reported back about the Cruz-inspired uprising, the leadership shelved it.
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Leadership sources, for their part, are startled by Cruz’s attempt to shape House strategy and work against the speaker. They knew he’d oppose Boehner’s playbook, but they didn’t expect him to huddle with conservatives and ask them to ignore it. So, Cruz’s meetings have made him a key House player, but they’ve worsened his already-fraught relationship with the leadership.
We’ve reached an existential point: the fight itself is the thing, win or lose.
At least those of us who take the proper stand will be able to look at ourselves in the mirror, right before we’re given that final dose of morphine to remove us as selfish burdens to the Greater Good.
I wish I could have been there to listen to McCarthy and the responses McCarthy received. I also wonder just how hard McCarthy pushed the Boehner plan.
Somehow, I doubt Senator Cruz much cares about his relationship with the GOP good ole’ boy club.
“So you’re saying that I’m unpopular with a handful of guys who are consistently in the low teens on popularity polls? Gee, that’s a shame…”
How come these fellas Lee, Cruz, Paul et al didn’t learn the first principle of the Republican formation of a fighting strategy: “Take the enemy’s aims and adopt them as your own”? Where did their parents go wrong?
Heh. Reading the Federalist Papers will do that to you, sdferr.
The other side’s long game.
This is the modern progressive formulation of democracy.
The self designated “elite” know what you will love, want, and do need, before you poor ignorant emotional desire driven people do. And so it is their great burden to force what you will really want on you for your own good.
The
white man’sProgressive person’s burden. A heavy load they bear with pride and love … of the power.How Obamacare Divides Our Nation: A Chart
How Crazy Are the Democrats? This Crazy
President Pinhead is up pretty quick on the teevee.
Bets on what he says?
the fight itself is the thing
There ya go.
However, Jonah Goldberg is all whiny in his G-file today because Cruz made the Neville Chamberlain comparison with those who said “impossible.”
He’s since become more sympathetic with Cruz’s position, but apparently he can’t see that Cruz was aiming his criticism more at his colleagues than at the punditry (though not exclusively).
Take your medicine, Jonah: you were wrong to be pessimistic.
He also included a keeper of a metaphor: “Personally, this week has been like watching Michael Moore doing a nude yoga routine, unendurably ugly from beginning to end, yet with a few moments of dark comedy in between.”
I guess he had a lot of people e-mailing and tweeing that he was a “sellout.”
Obama talked of the “radical Republicans” meaning the tea party supported ones and now Sen. Harkin “Says Politics Have Reached Civil War Levels.”
Do they really want this to be their analogy? Have they so corrupted the education of the public that they can use this comparison without damage? We shall see.
Jonah Goldberg is all whiny
the death of cosmo might be a factor
Well, he talked about the Fugitive Slave Act the other day. Now again with the Civil War?
He probably ought to quit while he’s ahead since there are enough of us who are ready to go to the mattresses as it is.
If Harking wonders why there is no comity in Washington anymore, it’s mainly because Obama’s style of government by crisis, rinse, re-fight, has generated nothing but animosity and mistrust. The entire budget process has been a giant con and a crisis that Obama can turn on and turn off as his political needs dictate. It makes everyone in Washington look like con.
It’s all one giant scam. We’re forced to play our roles in it all, choosing one side and throwing rocks at the other, while a bemused Obama tweaks the government bureaucracy behind the scenes to wage war on various sectors of the US economy and our traditional values and way of life. It’s quite cynical, even evil, the way he scams and manipulates us into one civil war after another, never letting the latest crisis go to waste.
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Sen. Barbara Mikulski uses “teabagger” on Senate Floor
Uncouth bitch.
Sen. John McCain Hires Disgraced Syria ‘Analyst’ Elizabeth O’Bagy
How do my balls taste, Barb?
the death of cosmo might be a factor
I missed that.
Poor puppy. I’d be cranky and whiny too.
Obamacare is THE DISTRACTION. Cruz is only mostly right.
What it’s supposed to distract us from is the gross amount of fraud in America’s existing, government mediated “health-care” system. By layering on Obamacare, all the “petty” stealing that’s been going on since the eighties will never be prosecuted; the losses due to fraud by both practicioners and patients will instead be ‘balled-up’ and hidden under rolls and rolls of Obamacare flim-flammery, and noone, I said NOONE, will ever be prosecuted for a whit of it.
This is the end game of ObamaCare – bigger pools hide ever larger globules of graft and theft, and the tax-payer gets the tab for it all. That, and the juicy politics to be played with services allocation – as Dick Durbin alluded to two nights ago – that’s The Game.
The thing about Medicare and Medicaid fraud to consider is, like so much of the fraud behind the housing bubble-and-bust, there is a distinct racial element to the fraud. I’d be willing to bet that, should any bespectacled inspector choose to prosecute against a class of defendents of Medi-Fraud, he’d necessarily be called a Racist. Because the prevaling swindling patients fall into the “other,” brown-skinned peoples type.
Same thing with crimes of all types, be they gun-crimes or petty theft. The racial element is obvious for all with eyes to see, and much of what passes for government progams is designed to obfuscate this fact, and thus, to stymie proposals that deal directly with the real problem before us.
Cruz is swifty becoming a folk hero to those of us not bes0tted by “government.” But, if a hearty state’s AG were to finally file suit against one or two noteables who have scammed the Gov’s “medi” systems, he’d quickly overtake Cruz’ notoriety because, instead of simply tugging on a loose thread hoping to unravel Obama’s knitting like Cruz is, he’d be undercutting Obama’s prestidigitation more directly.
This is all about laundering all the fraud of the eighties, nineties and ‘oughts under a new moniker, with new faces, a devoted IRS bureau and an ungodly amount of taxpayers’ money. If the Dem’s can win at playing God, or garner donations from newly unionized healthcare workers, or lure their imported electorate with “free” benefits, then that’s just icing on the cake!
Cosmo, RIP
By Jonah Goldberg
Willie Nelson’s Stuffed Armadillo Returned Unharmed
Thank God! I was so worried.
Steveaz, I think you just nailed it
fat man media
“How many Republicans are you going to see walking up and down these streets like this?” she said. “He’s approachable. I really like that. And I think the people in Orange are really thrilled, whether they’re Democrat or Republican, that he’s here.
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Cory Booker supporters to white Republican: ‘Go back where you came from’
The trouble with Bryan Preston, whose article you quote from above newrouter, is that he fails to grasp that Harkin knows exactly what he is doing. Harkin knows that his side is responsible for the lack of comity. He has memorized the Leftist Playbook.
What really angers me is that conservatives like Mr. Preston still don’t get it – even after all that we have seen these past five years.
People like Harkin want to destroy The United States, reduce it to rubble, so that they can build their Utopia on the ruins.
Mr. Preston: Tom Harkin is Evil. Obama is Evil. All Leftists are Evil. And, until you understand that, you’re useless.
[…] Bryan Preston’s entry at the PJ Tatler of Noon yesterday is worth quoting in full [tip of the fedora to Newrouter]: […]
Politico: House GOP to attach Obamacare delay to CR
Well, well.
Does this indicate the House has decided to listen? That the House has at long last finally figured out the question?
Then we can begin to wonder whether anytime soon these House members can open their Senate counterparts’ eyes.
damn anarchists
On Saturday, in fact, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) said the House’s new plan was “pointless.”
“The Senate will reject both the one-year delay of the Affordable Care Act and the repeal of the medical device tax,” Reid said in a statement, referring to the health-care law. “After weeks of futile political games from Republicans, we are still at square one: Republicans must decide whether to pass the Senate’s clean CR, or force a Republican government shutdown.”
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i deem louise slaughter an exceptionally stupid proggtard
impeached judge now up for ‘rats
a voice of insanity: sheila jackson lee now makes noises and gestures.
sheila points alot
When did Sheila start wearing her hair like Farina on the Lil Rascals?
jerry nadler looks eloquent . i don’t dare turn off the mute.
sheila was trying to confuse the liv by wearing red. the proggtards so mischievous.
‘rat frank pallone does one sided head tilts
‘rat kathy castor doling out the oil
‘rats have someone named douche pushing the cleansing qualities of O!care
my bad deutch a sig heil too proggies
screaming proggtard now. you go grrl!!11!!
fag from vermont says “you meanies!!!”
fresh from star trek the ‘rats have on babs lee
oh tonite’s star trek is proggtardian : Operation: Annihilate!. just in time for deb washername shultz to mouth stupid stuff
the orangeman should run some ads on the daily show with his position. at least make stewart’s writers tell good and true jokes
chaka be talking. proggtardia is forever.
steny whorer is a dignified old white guy
Maybe next up they shroud add the Vitter amendment to the House CR, but Reid will reject that too. He and O! want just what they want and nothing else or else.
oh good another old white dude levin from mi
followed by an old white dude from nj
that’s why orangeman should go on the pr offensive with the liv. do an ad on the morning shows.
the muslim is doing his taki
bikini waxman
with no sound the proggtards are sensible?
another old white dude neal
old white dude israel from ny
jan schak is giving the litany at the fed gov’t “shutdown”
sheila jack is emoting in red
gwen is doing the rap
bald white dude now
mock these losers loser rethugs
clown says nih don’t get no money
jim moran is very concern about the military.
jim moran is an old white guy by the way
oh my parks are closed in Oct. and weather peeps . the humanity of it all.
jim moran: i don’t want you or steny coming to “work” anymore
eff you steny clown
oh steny : old white dude.
What must become fundamental for us is initiation, not
dissidence. That is, we should consider ourselves first and foremost
as initiators of future possibilities and not as subversives, drop-outs
or rebels who are anti-a, anti-b, or anti-c. We should leave resistance
and repression to the ruling powers and transform our opposition
into an increasingly clear position! Charter 77 represents the position
of an independent citizens’ initiative that understands human
rights as something given not de lege but defacto, And in that sense
the initiators of a new position must be able not only to formulate,
but also to bring to life the notion of a harmonious relationship
between individuals and society.
potp havel et al pg 104
bobby orr plus
good nite dc. effin commies!!11!!
bobby orr plus
Or a Nick Lidstrom, a Manny Machado and a Deion Sanders
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