First Official GOP President Announcement

Mass graves?

You really are riding that hyperbole train lately.

The origin of this debate was about him being responsible for the government shutdown as alot of naive people claim(some, but not alot on this site)

The only way he could be 'responsible' for it, is if his 'filibuster' caused it.. which it did not.

And ok, I take back something I said earlier.. that he had 'nothing' to do with it.. I admit that was too strong a word.. he is indeed a member of the senate, so he did indeed vote on it.

In July and August 2013, Sen. Mike Lee, along with fellow Tea Party-affiliated Senators Ted Cruz of Texas,[47] Marco Rubio of Florida,[47][48] and Rand Paul of Kentucky,[47] lobbied their colleagues in the Senate to support a letter written by Lee calling for defunding the Affordable Care Act. The letter was eventually signed by 19 senators, although 5 of the co-signatories later withdrew their support.[49][50]

Freshman Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina circulated a similar letter in the House of Representatives that was signed by 80 House members.[49][51][52] The New York Daily News wrote that it was Meadows' letter that had put the federal government on the road to shutdown,[53] noting that calls to defund the Affordable Care Act through spending bills languished until Meadows wrote an open letter on August 21, 2013, to House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor asking them to defund the Affordable Care Act in any appropriations bills brought to the House floor.[51][54] CNN described Meadows as the "architect of the brink" for his letter.[52]

Joshua Withrow of the Tea Party group FreedomWorks, which had endorsed the Meese coalition's plan months earlier,[45] explained the overall strategy, writing in August 2013 that the continuing resolution due to expire September 30 "must be renewed in order for the doors to stay open in Washington. The CR is the best chance we will get to withdraw funds from Obamacare. This can be done by attaching bills by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) or Congressman Tom Graves (R-GA) to the CR, which will totally defund Obamacare."[55] He added, "Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC) are leading the charge to get their colleagues to commit to this approach, by putting their signatures to a letter affirming that they will refuse to vote for a CR that contains Obamacare funding...."[55]

Signed the letter
Jeffrey Chiesa (NJ)
Mike Crapo (ID)
Ted Cruz (TX)
Mike Enzi (WY)
Deb Fischer (NE)
Chuck Grassley (IA)
Jim Inhofe (OK)
Mike Lee (UT)
Rand Paul (KY)
Jim Risch (ID)
Pat Roberts (KS)
Marco Rubio (FL)
John Thune (SD)
David Vitter (LA)
Signed but later withdrew support
Kelly Ayotte (NH)
John Boozman (AR)
John Cornyn (TX)
Mark Kirk (IL)
Roger Wicker (MS)

It works so well for the "conservative" posters, I figured I'd give it a try.

Seriously, though, it was a joke. Poking fun at Cruz's saying ACA is the end of liberty while signing up for health insurance under it.

It works so well for the "conservative" posters, I figured I'd give it a try.

Seriously, though, it was a joke. Poking fun at Cruz's saying ACA is the end of liberty while signing up for health insurance under it.

You know who is a racist fearmonger? Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

I can buy the fearmonger to a very small extent.. I listen to Glenn Beck and there are those who accuse him of being a fearmonger(I don't buy that)

Tea Party is a Party of Constitutional Conservatives with a taste of Libertarian. All we want is a strict following of the constitution.. We also want the Government to back the F off. We push stuff like new amendments to the constitution (2 specifically, the Balanced budget amendment= budget MUST be balanced every year, and Term limits on Congress= typically the limit should be 12 years.)

We want Tax Reform. Abolishment of certain government agencies. so on and so forth.

The reason the Tea Party is so against Obama is at least 2 reasons: 1: Well truth be told he is democrat(liberal/progressive)
2: He LOVES his executive agreements.

Is there anybody out there that can run for president (and actually stand a chance) without the skeletons in the closet, or is that mandatory nowadays?

I thought it was a requirement.

Makes the candidate seem more human, sometimes in an inhumane way.

Because who would believe a candidate was clean?

The plan is Republicare.

Need a real POTUS at the moment because the current one is hellbent on pushing big government down our throats. I'd rather have a POTUS that loves America. Nuke Deal {No, Thanks.} -> http://www.ijreview.com/2015/03/265234-ad-refusal/?fb_action_ids=1549971898617573&fb_action_types=og.shares

Big government like the Bush expansion of Government power?

.... Back to the topic, I think Cruz is going to take some heavy hits due to his early announcement. I'm not sure it was a good strategy to be first.

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Tea Party is a Party of Constitutional Conservatives with a taste of Libertarian. All we want is a strict following of the constitution.. We also want the Government to back the F off....

So the ACA?

With a Republican twist!

Or the virtual suspension of the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, and 10th amendments?

Seriously, the only liberties that seem to matter these days are religion and guns...

Real death panels?

Big government like the Bush expansion of Government power?

Nice strawman, but nobody is defending Bush. It's 2015, we can stop defending Obama's every move by referencing Bush now.

Nice strawman, but nobody is defending Bush. It's 2015, we can stop defending Obama's every move by referencing Bush now.

It's almost like it's the new Godwin, though. It's like complaining about eating haggis and having someone tell you that it's better than eating feces. Yes, that's true, but it's a stupid point to make in the first place.

It's almost like it's the new Godwin, though. It's like complaining about eating haggis and having someone tell you that it's better than eating feces. Yes, that's true, but it's a stupid point to make in the first place.

Benghazi.