In 2013, Tx Senator Ted Cruz held a filibuster calling for defunding Obamacare. Which is what the GOP leadership, as well as others in the party, had campaigned on. Both the dems and fellow members of the GOP, criticized and mocked Cruz for it. Reid's response was to shutdown merely 17% of the federal govt; or the non-essential employees. Their time off was FULLY paid as a leave of absence. The GOP and the even Fox News, blamed the NON-govt shutdown on the Tx Senator. Despite the FACT that Reid's tactic had NO repercussions whatsoever, and the FACT that the Rs won in even BIGGER landslides than 2010, Senator Cruz pretty much became a toxic personna-non-grata among his very own in DC. Needless to say, Reid and Obama got their way. Obamacare was funded.
In 2015, Ky Senator Rand Paul held a filibuster denouncing the Debt Ceiling deal between the GOP and the Barrack Obama. Yet again both the dems and the GOP majority criticized and ridiculed Sen Rand Paul for it. And, because of the lack of support...or should I say lack of a SPINE...from fellow Rs, it got nowhere fast. Once again, the R "majority" caved in to the democrat "minority"; and the Debt Ceiling was raised. The Debt has now reached approx $19T.
JUNE 15, 2016
On this date Senate "Minority" Leader Harry Reid ended his filibuster that called for a vote ontwo gun-control measurestwo gun-control measures. NO ONE either on the left or the right made any sorts of criticizism, let alone mock him, in the least. They all stood united. Never putting the FOCUS back on the FACT that the mass murders were acts of Islamic terror and not a platform for legislation that would do NOTHING to even deter the mass shootings that occur EVERY DAY in cities like Chicago.
This is very disturbing, when we consider what was the INTENTION behind FAST & FURIOUS. Which, like the Black Panther investigation of 2009, it was swiftly shutdown by the Obama admn. Never to be spoken about again.
Remember Jonathan Gruber—the architect of Obamacare? It is no longer just a rumor that Gruber, as well as the ENTIRE Obama admn, LIED about their very intentions with, and the very content of, the almost 3,000 page Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
And, what about the FARSE behind "climate change" / global warming? They are being sold under the innocent labels as Cap And Trade and the Copenhagen Accord (Treaty). Exactly like w/ Obamacare, the left is attempting to hide MORE oppressive and job-killing laws and regulations within the language of such laws. Which means that they would also consist of thousands of pages - that will have absolutely NOTHING to do w/ "global warming" at all; but further denial and removal of our Natural Rights of Freedom and Liberty. Five days prior to the 2008 prez election, Barrack Hussein Obama called it the "Fundamental Transformation" of the United States of America. And the GOP has been rolling over w/ them since day one!
With everything that I have presented above, can anyone honestly accuse me of being paranoid or some conspiracy nutjob? The gun laws that filthy Harry Reid filibustered over was in no way a mere shot-from-the-hip. No-no! Just like Cap And Trade and Obamacare - these gun laws that the dems so feverishly want to pass had been cooked up YEARS ago! And, because of Operation FAST & FURIOUS, which was COMPLETELY set up by the Obama admn, I have NO doubt whatsoever that Obama's federal govt was totally AWARE of what the Islamic terrorist, Omar Saddiqui Mateen, fully intended to do.
This attack, which occurred just months before the most pivotal prez election in US history, and during a time where the most complicit and docile GOP members are found together at this point in time, is exactly what the radically far left in DC was patiently waiting for decades now. Make no mistake. Whatever these "gun laws" will be - they will likely consist of THOUSANDS of pages, which, of course, they'd have to pass FIRST, and in a hurry, before WE, the people, can ever "know" what's in it! By then, just like Obamacare, it will be too late.
Luis
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