As God Is My Witness, Ted Cruz Is Reading Sam I Am

I want to add one thing here and you can take it for what it is worth. I am not trying to be combative or insulting but this exchange just highlights the real issue and that is the distrust that lies between the partisans of each party. You served your country in the military and I respect and appreciate your service. You used to be a republican and your life experiences for whatever reason has caused you to see things differently. I haven't reached a point in my life that I have become disenchanted with the policies and ideology of those of my ilk. And I don't think the conrtant bickering is going to change any minds. We come from two different schools of thought and I will have to accept the fact that we as Americans are deeply divided and that doesn't look like that will change anytime soon.

as long as party takes precedence over what's best for America there's always going to be an issue and followers of both parties are more about winning for their team Then winning for this country

Blue Countach said:

I want to add one thing here and you can take it for what it is worth. I am not trying to be combative or insulting but this exchange just highlights the real issue and that is the distrust that lies between the partisans of each party. You served your country in the military and I respect and appreciate your service. You used to be a republican and your life experiences for whatever reason has caused you to see things differently. I haven't reached a point in my life that I have become disenchanted with the policies and ideology of those of my ilk. And I don't think the conrtant bickering is going to change any minds. We come from two different schools of thought and I will have to accept the fact that we as Americans are deeply divided and that doesn't look like that will change anytime soon.

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It still comes down to what the Republican Party is selling and what they think we're willing to buy.

Republicans: Freedom and Liberty (unlike those scumbag Liberals), unless we think you're going to vote for someone else. In that case, we're going to call your very citizenship into question. But don't get us wrong, Freedom and Liberty...yeehaw.

Republicans: Reign in government spending.....because we created an agency that never should have been created and that's where your money should go. But other than the multi-billion dollar bullshit we want, we need to reign in government spending.

Republicans: It's all about the Bill of Rights and the Founding Fathers. But just ignore the part where they vehemently opposed allowing Christianity or any other religion into government....they were just making a funny.

Republicans: Obama has made the economy worse and that's why no one should get unemployment or welfare or foodstamps because the economy that Obama made worse is doing so well that anyone not making 50k a year is lazy and stoopid and on drugs and there's no excuse for that in such a healthy economy that Obama has made worse.

This last election made it clear to me that Republicans have reduced themselves to hoping that people are ignorant enough to believe the shit that they're slinging, if they say it often enough.

Blue Countach said:

The Brennan Center? their credibility has been called into to question more than once and by real non partisans. I guess I could sit here for 3 hours in a cut and paste war but I simply refuse to do it. Your going to have to do better than an organization that George Soros funded with 7 million dollars and is affiliated with the bastion of conservatism NYU. For every article you post touting organizations such as that there are 3 shooting holes through it. I am sorry but you just lost all credibility that I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt in having. Sell that shit to somebody else.

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SMH, you say there is rampant voter fraud? could you provide some data to support that claim. I've yet to see any statisitcs they say there is rampant voter fraud in this country. Does voter fraud happen? yes it does but it's in such smalll numbers that it's essentially non existant. Between 2000 and 2010, there's only been 13 cases of in-person voter impersonation

Iceman322 said:

SMH, you say there is rampant voter fraud? could you provide some data to support that claim. I've yet to see any statisitcs they say there is rampant voter fraud in this country. Does voter fraud happen? yes it does but it's in such smalll numbers that it's essentially non existant. Between 2000 and 2010, there's only been 13 cases of in-person voter impersonation

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It could be rampant successful voter fraud. In which case they didn't get caught and you can't get the metrics on that. Those stealthy basturds!

On one hand a vote is supposed to be kind of sacred. So, I have to show a photo id to rent a car, why not to vote? Sounds logical to me.

Oh the other hand for the very reason you just point out Ice, I just can't get any passion behind this and don't see it as a priority to put on the agenda.

wdoall said:

as long as party takes precedence over what's best for America there's always going to be an issue and followers of both parties are more about winning for their team Then winning for this country

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A judge at this very moment is reviewing as to why the Obama administration saw fit to violate Section 215 of the Patriot Act. That includes wiretapping and determining the location of private citizens through their cell phone use. Not once during this discussion has Mayhem made mention of the trampling upon our civil liberties by this administration. It will not be until after Obama leaves office will the extent of this will be made known. The Bush administration even sought clarification in 2008 yet Holder and Obama continue to run roughshod through the use of the NSA and the IRS and the Bush administration is the one using Gestapo tactics. Got it.

amazing that republicans are suddenly speaking up on violations of privacy. this was going on through the entire GWB years and its just as unacceptable by Obama. but now you cry foul?

it wasn't a problem for any of you from 2000 - 2008 but suddenly it's unacceptable? it should have been unacceptable then too. Just like Libya and Syria and Benghazi have you all so outraged now but imagine if there were a republican white house? McCain would have been in war up to our necks and Benghazi would have been a sorry mess but nothing more than what is really is.

ted Cruz is another dangerous republican with crazy ideas and religion guiding him and his policies. but he's in the same state that continues to elect Rick Perry so that pretty much says all there is to say.

How about for once get your facts straight. Never once did the Bush administration emplement any tactics that were not within Patriot Act guidelines. Disagree with the Patriot Act all you want but he at least followed what it allowed. Obama and Holder have gone beyond the limits and is why the judge is reviewing it in secrecy as to not risk national security. So now you are defendimg that which you don't even have the first detail of. Violation of section 215 is what is in question here. As for Cruz can you respond within 2 minutes as to what your biggest gripes with him are? Without a crash course by Google? You know nothing about the man other than that he is a republican christian senator. He is not a nutjob he doesn't say stupid things unless you are an ideologue and is a Harvard educated lawyer like someone else we know. If you can't overcome him demonize him. That's all you got. You are going to have a difficult time lumping Cruz in with the likes of Bachmann.

you are so delusional it's frightening. Bush Cheney passed laws that eliminated the 4th amendment. They gave companies unrestricted access to your entire life including using neighbors, co workers, your credit and anything else they can find to collect debt. they handed out unlimited power to companies and to government to absolutely violate our privacy. They used the loophole of allowing Lexus Nexus type companies to compile huge databases on every American just like the KGB once did, and then the government buys the information from them. Since they didn't collect the information, it navigated them around the law. You have said you use companies like Lexus Nexus and I have told you before that I have a friend who's husband worked for them.

So you tell me they didn't create this society of secrecy but it is well known that the Bush white house created these practices and Obama is continuing them which is sickening.

and as far as Ted Cruz goes I don't know a lot about him but knowing he's a bible thumping bigot who wants more religion in government. I also know he is a big part of the freezing of the government to try and overturn obamacare. he is all about party and not people. I saw him on the news last night and then saw that there are people within the republican party who are against him and think he's dangerous to the party. that congressman from NY was on I dont remember his name saying he thinks Cruz is not being logical or concerned for the country with the stance he's taking.

I'm sure you love the guy because he wants to take away obamacare and wants to require all americans to be christians, but its not a good move for your party to put someone like this out there.

Get back to me when you achieve your goal of no Christians being able to hold office. And the only repubs that are speaking out against Cruz are RINO's you know, the type you wouldn't vote for anyway? So who gives a good cotdam if you like him anyway?
I really didn't have Cruz at the top of my list of people I'd like to see run but the more I see him and the more the left starts complaining the more I like him. One thing is for certain, if you are against them they are worth considering. ane Bush and Cheney never passed any laws congress did which also included democrats. Whether they violated the 4th is not for a scholar like you to decide but for the SCOTUS to decide.

Bob Corker is now a RINO?

Folks, if you're curious as to why the GOP tent continues to get smaller and not larger (as it did under Reagan), just look around the internet and the right wing press and count the number of times that you see or hear people using the term "RINO".

He is a fucking RINO. Look at his voting record. Drones, Patriot Act Michelle Obama's lunck program. Sorry the term offends you but the place is crawling with them. Folks, if you want to see why the independents will never elect a president is because the easiest of political animals to be is an independent. You don't have to take a position on anything unless you see a dem and rep arguing and then interject how both are fucking up the country. Yeah that's tough business being a independent when you have 2 other scapegoats to blame it all on all the while not offering one damn solution to our problems. I have far more respect for radical lefties like Mariah Johan or Mayhem who at least put their positions out there instead of this independemt I am above the fray no solutions but love to criticize bullshit.

Apparently over half the Republicans in the Senate are "RINOs". The Senate just voted to end debate on Ted "Sam I Am" Cruz's attempt to hold the nation's credit rating hostage in order to get what he wanted.

The Senate voted, 79-19, to move forward on the bill, clearing the required 60-vote hurdle. Twenty-five Republicans joined all the Democrats and 19 Republicans opposed. Two Republicans did not cast votes.

:clap: Good for them, for putting the republic's interests before those of their party.

its kind of fucked up for ANYONE to oppose the lunch program considering how many kids in this country aren't getting fed. and how do you claim that drones are a left concept???? and the patriot act is now a RINO position to take? I hate the things from the GWB era that Obama has embraced. he has sold out completely. but to call Cruz a RINO is a little inaccurate wouldn't you say? and the republican congress passed the laws that eliminated much of the 4th amendment which GWB and Cheney went right along with.

I hate the political climate in the country now. it's "for us or against us" and very little in between. the fact that if you even consider compromising with the left you are a pariah is a disgrace to being a public servant. look at the shit Christie took for saying Obama handled the Sandy issue well. he is blamed for Romney losing by a lot of people, including Romney. all he was doing was his job and being honest about it. Look at how many republicans were against McCain because of all of his working with the left. God forbid anyone actually be more concerned about the people of the country than the party or the people who fund their campaigns.

I HATE Pelosi and Harry Reid. They are both too left for me. But I will not back off of the fact that there are far more radical and stubborn people on the right than the left. you don't hear too many people on the left saying shit as crazy as masturbating fetuses and denying climate change and the earth being 10,000 years old. that is just fucking dangerous considering that most americans are stupid and clueless and take talking points from what they hear on TV.

Blue Countach said:

He is a fucking RINO. Look at his voting record. Drones, Patriot Act Michelle Obama's lunck program. Sorry the term offends you but the place is crawling with them. Folks, if you want to see why the independents will never elect a president is because the easiest of political animals to be is an independent. You don't have to take a position on anything unless you see a dem and rep arguing and then interject how both are fucking up the country. Yeah that's tough business being a independent when you have 2 other scapegoats to blame it all on all the while not offering one damn solution to our problems. I have far more respect for radical lefties like Mariah Johan or Mayhem who at least put their positions out there instead of this independemt I am above the fray no solutions but love to criticize bullshit.

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Any herd animal will tell you that there is (perceived) safety in numbers - even though herd animals tend to be the dumbest and most helpless in nature. Hell, how hard is it to go to a meeting with a bunch of other sheep and just nod your head when the political evangelist tells you to? Yeah, that takes mucho guts. What does following the crowd get you? I don't know. Let's ask the people who followed Jim Jones into the jungle and see what they tell us. Oh, that's right, we can't. Cause they're all dead!

You can think that being a loyal and obedient disciple to a political party (instead of to the republic) is the way to go if you want to. But like I said, what we're experiencing now is EXACTLY what George Washington warned us about. I get paid rather well to let data determine my course of action in business. And I am very agnostic in my approach. But your lot, you have to put your fingers to the winds of politics and see what the party bosses tell you before you can figure out whether you're supposed to be for or against something. IMO, that represents intellectual laziness and true cowardice. Stand up! Be a man (or a woman) and think for yourself!

Yeah that's about right. I can list about 20-25 RINO's in the D.C. Kiwanis Club

And what does being a RINO really mean? It means that someone is not being a good follower. It means that someone has stepped out of line and is thinking for himself. It means that someone has broken from... the herd. "Group think" is taking intellectual laziness to an extreme.

Oh yes let someone that has no political affiliation dictate what i should believe or what party I align myself with. It is called fucking core beliefs and ideology and it just so happens that conservatives are who I agree with. Not republicans. And as you all say we are in the minority now so it takes far more backbone to be a partisan than an independent any day of the week.

Did you reward the RINO maverick John McCain with your vote? Wait you would have but he chose Palin so you couldn't He could have chosen a dem as his running mate and you wouldn't have voted for him.Boy that RINO business sure earns a lot of respect doesn't it. That is until you actually have to vote for one.

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Did you reward the RINO maverick John McCain with your vote? Wait you would have but he chose Palin so you couldn't He could have chosen a dem as his running mate and you wouldn't have voted for him.Boy that RINO business sure earns a lot of respect doesn't it. That is until you actually have to vote for one.