Our Senator Ted Cruz again

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Butch Lambert

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March 18, 2013

Greetings,

The Senate held important votes last week on defunding Obamacare and the Second Amendment I’d like you to know about. If you have a moment, please read and share the latest news with your friends on Facebook and Twitter. As always, it’s an honor to represent you and the Great State of Texas.

All the best,
TC Sig
Ted Cruz

DEFUNDING OBAMACARE

All 45 Senate Republicans presented a united front and voted unanimously in favor of Sen. Cruz’s amendment to defund Obamacare in the upcoming Continuing Resolution. Unfortunately, the amendment was defeated on a party-line vote; all Senate Democrats voted against it. While it’s disappointing the amendment did not pass, Sen. Cruz is proud that all Senate Republicans recognized the threat Obamacare poses to our still-struggling economy and came together to force this matter for a vote in the U.S. Senate.

Shortly before the vote, Sen. Cruz delivered his first major speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate, highlighting many of the promises Obamacare has already broken. Please take a moment to watch and share if you can.

Obamacare

SECOND AMENDMENT

Last Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation to ban assault weapons, limit the size of magazines, and require universal background checks. Sen. Cruz, along with all the other Republicans on the committee, voted against this legislation, which is now headed for the Senate floor.

During the committee meeting, Sen. Cruz raised serious constitutional concerns with Congress infringing our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Here is a video of his remarks.

Hearing

MEETING WITH THE PRESIDENT

President Obama came to Capitol Hill to meet with Senate Republicans last week. During the meeting, Sen. Cruz opened up a discussion with the President about the best ways to achieve economic growth and create jobs, specifically by enacting meaningful tax reform and regulatory reform.

President Obama said he believed there should be agreement between Republicans and Democrats when it comes to corporate tax reform and also suggested a Senate task force be created to examine regulatory burdens and find ways to make it easier for businesses to thrive. Sen. Cruz welcomed those suggestions and looks forward to working hard to make progress in the Senate on economic growth.

MAJOR MEDIA

Sen. Cruz spoke with several major media outlets this week about his amendment to defund Obamacare and reinvigorate the economy. Below are links to two of those interviews.

Greta
Sen. Cruz speaking with Fox’s Greta Van Susteren.

Kudlow
Sen. Cruz speaking with CNBC’s Larry Kudlow.

Sen. Cruz also had the honor of delivering the keynote closing address at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference. There, he spoke about the state of the conservative movement and the need to stand up for our constitutional principles. Please watch this short excerpt of his remarks.

CPAC
Excerpt of Sen. Cruz's Remarks at CPAC

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As opposed to

"Our main agenda is to have all guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort the facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."
Sara Brady


Yeahh, you got a good one, keep it rolling! :)
 
We all like what Ted says because it is what we think. The guy talks a good job.

This guy comes from my state, Texas. He is my Senator and I voted for him. Texas has had it's share of political hacks. I am going to take my time before I throw my full support his way.

Concho Bill
 
I like Cruz

Finally a republican with some hangers!! If we only had 46 more!!
 
I like what he says and that for which he stands, but mark my words...the Uber Left will demonize, isolate, mock, and destroy him..so sad for our country.
 
fx77 said:
I like what he says and that for which he stands, but mark my words...the Uber Left will demonize, isolate, mock, and destroy him..so sad for our country.
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Think about what you're saying here :)

"The Uber Left"

As though it were an entity, a Thing........ it's NOT!

The current political situation is the result of US, we the voters have put us here. Our job is to change our neighbors, our job is to BE better and to drag others with us.

Education.

This whole idea of laying down and whimpering "I'm beat," "I'm beat" bothers me..... beat by those wimps???? BEAT by by a bunch of toothless, useless pansies?

We just need top man up and stay the course, it WILL all out in the end :)

It already is....


http://www.newspressnow.com/news/business/ap/article_21cb5a42-f84f-5bd2-8d13-0f2bc2adeb77.html


REALLY, the left is WRONG..... facts don't lie.
Al
 
Butch,
I think you folks got a good one in Mr. Cruz. Based on what little I have heard him speak, I like him.

alinwa said:
The current political situation is the result of US, we the voters have put us here. Our job is to change our neighbors, our job is to BE better and to drag others with us.
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I am a firm believer that over 50% of this country, as a whole, is of a conservative nature. The problem is getting all of us folks off of our arses and voting. The wrong types, you know the ones, centered in and around the population centers of any state (and possibly a few states as a whole I think) certainly get off their arses and vote since they've got something to gain (we'll call these the entitlement seeker types). We have to get folks up and off the couches and to the polls!

And what makes it even harder by the day, is much of the curriculum in our K-12 schools teaches the next generations the "liberal" views. We have got to get control of this situation ASAP! My wife is a teacher and keeps telling me I need to run for our school board, which I am really comtemplating. At only the local level though, it'd be really hard to have the opportunity to effect much change, especially in light of the curriculum being dictated by the state, coming from the Denver area population center and all.

Bryan
 
My kids attend school in the Battle Ground WA system which is (or at least was at one time) "the largest school system west of the Mississippi." My point is, it's BIG, 12,000-14,000 kids. And it's liberal, and bloated and grossly over-funded and very politically active.

Back when our kids first started school we didn't think much about it beyond "I wonder how scared my kid will be his first day" etc.... but as we grew, and our kids grew, and our experience-base grew, and as our pool of friends who could be termed "concerned parents" grew we began to think about it. A number of yrs back we became concerned enough to try home schooling. When we thought of putting the kids back into public school we decided to educate ourselves, meet the people who'd be teaching the kids etc. We had concerns regarding the "new curriculum" and had heard horror stories.

So we went to some meetings..... PTA meetings, board meetings and special meetings called for specific subjects. I remember our first meeting, it was about the new sex ed teaching requirements that had been "mandated by the state." We conservatives were ALL in a tizzy about our kids installing condoms on each other in the classrooms, and having to learn about safe same sex sex and stuff. EVER'bodies up in arms, it's the topic at every church social and golf course. "Daggone gub'mint all up in our faces, messin' up our kids and I oughtta'.....and "you an' I both know".....and "we gotta' STOP this! Nip it in the bud!" So we decided we'd attend a meeting, we fussed and we planned a little, we put on our goodest overhauls, combed our hairs and drove over to the school, our notebooks clutched tightly. Got there early to find a parking space......

to find an empty parking lot.

We drove around for a while and finally another car showed up. We went over and caught the guy, "hey, is the policy meeting tonight?"

"Yup."

"Over in the new gym or what?"

"Naww, lemme' go turn the light on, see that door over there? It's in the coach's breakroom, they left the heater on. I'll tape a sign on the door and we can get started....."

????

2 more cars showed up...... we waited 'til quarter after and that was it. One mother and another couple, and us. The first guy introduced hisself and started the meeting with, "well guys, I'm glad you came. I don't have kids of my own so I'm out of my depth here. Plus, I'm an academic, I have no idea how it is out there in the big world so bear with me."

So, we 5 parents representing 3 families made policy decisions for the entire district that night. We 5 people, all with the same agenda affected the lives of probably 5-6,000 students.

I tell this long story to illustrate just where we, most of us, are, apathetic. We TALK but we don't DO.....Until we care ENOUGH to actually get involved, minorities WILL MAKE POLICY because they care enough to.

I shoulda' known better, my dad was on the school board. But I had to learn for myself.

al
 
alinwa said:
I tell this long story to illustrate just where we, most of us, are, apathetic. We TALK but we don't DO.....Until we care ENOUGH to actually get involved, minorities WILL MAKE POLICY because they care...

I shoulda' known better, my dad was on the school board. But I had to learn for myself.

al
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Al, that was one of your all time best post of many good ones. Down here there used to be a saying, "Talk is cheap. Deeds are gold."

Concho Bill
 
pikespeakgoat said:
The wrong types, you know the ones, centered in and around the population centers of any state (and possibly a few states as a whole I think) certainly get off their arses and vote since they've got something to gain (we'll call these the entitlement seeker types).
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Sounds like you and Mitt Romney agree. You call them "entitlement seekers." He expressed his thoughts in the now famous "47%" video.

It was one of the few times he openly said what he really believed and it cost him the election.
 
vicvanb said:
Sounds like you and Mitt Romney agree. You call them "entitlement seekers." He expressed his thoughts in the now famous "47%" video.

It was one of the few times he openly said what he really believed and it cost him the election.
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Sounds like you and obama agree......

Yeahhh, we KNOW vic, you are one of "the 99%" and one of the "47%" also. We KNOW :)

Let me put it clearly for you....... Some of us still agree with the American ideals we, as a country were founded on. The ideals we grew to greatness on. The principals that have allowed even our poor and middle class success, allowed even our lazy to have a decent lifestyle. We grew so great, provided so well that now we're being outvoted. We're being outvoted by the workers, the students, the children....

By YOU :)

We know vic...... We put you there, we GAVE you that right and ability to vote.
 
I have an 82 year-old brother. He worked hard all his life, much of it doing physical labor. He earned his modest social security pension. He's now in a nursing care facility. Were it not for Medicare plus the proceeds from his home paying the bills he'd be dead. Thank goodness we once had politicians in this country with enough compassion to provide programs like Medicaid for those in need. Instead, today we have politicians whose main belief is "you're on your own." My brother is not an "entitlement seeker" or a "47 percenter" in my book, but I guess he is in yours. Only when these things affect you or yours do you truly know the difference between ideaology and real world life. There is a difference.
 
vicvanb said:
Sounds like you and Mitt Romney agree. You call them "entitlement seekers." He expressed his thoughts in the now famous "47%" video.
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Yes we do, and I'm glad he did. Just confirms what I believe, we need more "built on principle" folks to get out and vote, the one's whom believe that they are going to get stuff w/o earning (read free) it obviously suceeded. Hopefully next time around will produce the "right" results.

vicvanb said:
It was one of the few times he openly said what he really believed and it cost him the election.
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See above and I'm not really worried about an election.

We obviously have differences of opinion, works for me.
 
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