Recent content by 1836er

I think you are correct; I have no problem with the votes of those four even though I think Rand's "nay" in this case was the better option. I think this response in the Guardian actually shows the wisdom in voting "nay" even though in some ways the bill could have scaled back the surveillance...

Yep. Just show up at your precinct convention (the same place where election day voting takes place) right before the polls close tonight at 7pm. Be sure to bring a digital and/or 3 printed copies (to make life easier on the precinct chair) of any resolutions you'd like to send to the county...

Of courses the statists and their media enablers will never admit that their statism failied... they'll simply claim that the free market is broken and we need more statism and what we did last time wasn't enough statism.

So really, then, the Republicans have already caved; even if Reid and the Dems accept this "compromise." As terrible and the mandate and the congressional exemptions are, the part that absolutely has to be defunded and/or delayed are the Health Care Exchanges. The regulations and penalties and...

I think, unfortunately, what so many are missing is the fact that this fight right here (the last chance to stop Obamacare) is the fight the tea party movement has building up to for the last four years. Not only is this fight hugely important for that reason alone, even more so it is THE FIGHT...

This is not that complicated if you think it through. If Cruz and Lee do not muster 41 or more votes tomorrow against cloture Harry Reid gets to unilaterally add his amendment that funds Obamacare. Then, instead of having to win 60 (all the Dems plus some Reps) votes to pass his bill as would...

Could he stand to sound more hardcore on this one than he is? Yes. But more importantly, I think he just needs to be CLEAR where he stands because many of the people who agree with him on this issue (and whom he's spent the last three years cultivating a positive relationship with) are...

Wow, here's a piece that I think precisely sums up both the stakes and puts Cruz's efforts vs. the pretend assumptions of the GOP into better perspective. http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2013/09/25/whats-gop-establishment-strategy-against-obamacare/?print=1

GGRRR, and that's what's so frustrating. In order to win the GOP nomination he's got to get the hardcore conservative base on his side. He's certainly not going to win the nomination by playing to what passes for the political "center," as it is the establishment who most despises and fears...

I ask myself the exact same thing; I think it's way overblown. Maybe a whole bunch of them are just spooked from the whole Gingrich/Clinton era shutdown and the mainstream media meme they've come to accept that the GOP "lost" that shutdown. Maybe many of them don't want a shutdown because it...

Grrrrrr, I missed it... what did Sean ask... what did Rand say?

I don't think most republican voters give a crap if government shuts down.... I think most would accept that in a heartbeat if it would shut down obamacare. It's the republican congressmen that don't want a government shutdown.

Generally I have little faith the house republicans hold their ground if even the most modest and insignificant of "fixes" to Obamacare is included in a compromise proposal... and just enough representatives will be looking for anyway to avoid voting for a shutdown if they can make it appear...

No that wasn't the cloture vote. I copied and pasted this explanation from a post on another site (got to keep a close eye on your allies) that I think explain it pretty well as I understand it. The vote today was to start debate on the House CR bill. It passed (as was expected). In the next...

You see, I don't really know. I do know that it sounds to many like Rand is hedging and that is bad politically. On what strategy Rand actually supports I'm not really sure, but I do agree with Ted Cruz that we lose the battle for sure if the Senate sends a bill back to the house that re-funds...