Ted Cruz Calls On Grassroots To Rise Up Against Obamacare: ‘Liberty Is Never Safer When Politicians Are Terrified’ 1 Comment ON Monday morning Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) pointed out the obvious about Republicans in Washington; they are scared of getting beat up by the Obama administration. Cruz’ words come at a time when Senate Republicans are blasting Senator Mike Lee’s (R-UT) proposal to defund Obamacare. So Senator Cruz, instead of retreating and simply blasting back at the Republicans, took to the Glenn Beck radio show and encouraged a grassroots effort to get behind Lee’s efforts and push elected officials to support the measure. “Liberty is never safer when politicians are terrified,” the Texas senator said. “What I can tell you is that there are a lot of Republicans in Washington who are scared, they’re scared of being beat up politically,” Cruz said during his interview with Beck. Cruz told Beck that the Republicans in Washington are worried about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Barack Obama screaming “at the top of their lungs” about the “evil mean nasty Republicans” who were attempting to shut the government down. Cruz’ position was to pass a continuing resolution to fund government, but defund Obamacare. In his estimation this would put the ball in Obama’s court and demonstrate that if there was no agreement to this, then it was Obama, not Republicans who wanted to shut down government. Frankly, it’s a smart move politically, but I would like to see further defunding of government to only the enumerate powers granted in the Constitution, which would mean elimination of various departments in the federal government, among them the Department of Energy and the Department of Education, along with the Environmental Protection Agency. These would all be good for the United States to rid itself of. “If we stand together, that’s how we win this fight,” Cruz said. Senator Cruz indicated that there were only 63 days for grassroots activists to convince their elected representatives to support the effort. “Listen, I can’t win this fight,” Cruz continued. “Mike Lee can’t win this fight. Marco Rubio can’t win this fight. No politician in Washington can win this fight, because if it’s just going to be arguments in the Senate cloakroom, the votes are against us.” Cruz called for grassroots Americans to rise up against Obamacare and campaign in favor of Lee’s proposal. “The one principal is true,” Cruz added. “I think liberty is never safer when politicians are terrified.” Lee has threatened “every procedural mechanism,” including a filibuster to stop Obamacare.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 00:19:07 +0000
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