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Cruz On Debt Ceiling:
Obama Trying To Scare People
With Financial Apocalypse

Breitbart News, by Staff

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Posted By:JoniTx, 1/6/2013 10:57:05 AM

[Video] Let me be clear, I do not support default on the debt and we should never default on the debt and the only players who are threatening to default are President Obama and Harry Reid. This is an issue, and earlier in the show you played the President threatening default. In any given month tax revenue are 200 billion and interest is 30 or 40 billion. There is it plenty of revenue to service the debt and any responsible President would´ve stood at that podium and said ´whatever happens with the debt ceiling, we will always pay our debt.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: preciosodrogas, 1/6/2013 11:09:01 AM     (No. 9101520)

Knowing this, and acknowledging this article, why haven´t the pubs out front on this? We just went through a national campaign, one of the longest if not the longest, in history (well at least on the dems side) and somehow this was not in the pub´s message.
Where was Boehner on this?


Reply 2 - Posted by: VinGoombatz, 1/6/2013 11:16:09 AM     (No. 9101529)

The Republican leadership doesn´t know language/PR. Maybe Cruz is the guy...


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: Coy860, 1/6/2013 11:30:09 AM     (No. 9101545)

Cruz can´t do it alone.
Time to get on the phone and call your Senators. BLITZ them !


Reply 4 - Posted by: mws50, 1/6/2013 11:30:30 AM     (No. 9101549)

Every time I hear Senator Cruz speak, I am very glad he beat Dewhurst in the primary. I cannot imagine Dewhurst EVER saying and planning what Cruz is saying and planning.

I believe Ted Cruz will be an exceptional Senator for Texas and the USA.


Reply 5 - Posted by: Philipsonh, 1/6/2013 11:36:10 AM     (No. 9101563)

Cut spending, period. Not the rate of increased
spending, true cuts. If it takes a shutdown of Government, then do it. Force this Administration to stick to a budget ( not that they have one ). It is time to save the USA from economic oblivion.


Reply 6 - Posted by: LadyVet, 1/6/2013 12:01:35 PM     (No. 9101605)

Cruz is bucking high, right out of the chute.


Reply 7 - Posted by: 6ironejd, 1/6/2013 12:09:34 PM     (No. 9101611)

This guy is great! He understands the power of the message, and is obviously not afraid of taking it to the democrats. Lay on McDuff!


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: King of all trolls, 1/6/2013 12:12:18 PM     (No. 9101616)

Wasn´t Cruz talking about forcing a shutdown of the government just yesterday? Nevertheless, i like the new approach: seize the moral high ground and stop acting like a teenage demolition crew.


Reply 9 - Posted by: lakerman1, 1/6/2013 12:15:56 PM     (No. 9101623)

Cruz impressed me today. He has a future...
now watch the democratic slime machine go after him, non stop.


Reply 10 - Posted by: Grambo, 1/6/2013 1:11:52 PM     (No. 9101702)

Cruz, a good man, is off base here.

Yes, there is 30 or 40 billion of interest to service the debt. And yes, there is 200 billion of revenue. But all of that 200 billion is not discretionary; it is committed to other spending streams. And if the Fed finds it can no longer hold interest rates at current levels, the cost of servicing the debt will explode.

Make no mistake; America is facing a very real prospect of economic apocalypse, and poo-pooing it is not very becoming in any politician, especially a Republican.


Reply 11 - Posted by: whyyeseyec, 1/6/2013 1:14:48 PM     (No. 9101707)

There are only two outcomes to the coming debt ceiling crises. Either the debt gets raised or the govn gets shut down. Boehner will never allow the govn to be shut down. He is too much of a wimp to let that happen so the national debt will be raised and raised and raised to infinity.


Reply 12 - Posted by: earlybird, 1/6/2013 1:27:56 PM     (No. 9101720)

Cruz was absolutely fantastic! He has an excellent mind, is extremely articulate - forcefully so - and his principles are in place.

And John Roberts let him talk. No Chris Wallace-type interruptions.

I have to say that this Fox News Sunday, with John Roberts as moderator, was the best, the most informative, we have ever watched. The entire show was satisfying in its presentation and John Roberts deserves a lot of credit for asking good questions and then letting his guests respond to them. In detail. Without interruption.

If Fox was polling re a new moderator for this program, Roberts would get my vote. (And I always thought he was just a pretty face.)


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: dman, 1/6/2013 2:04:24 PM     (No. 9101772)

"..and I´ll huff, and I´ll puff, and I´ll blow your house down!" - the Big Bad Wolf, and NerØbama.

If only we had party leaders who had the stones to call this bully´s bluff.

We don´t.

That´s why we need a new party, with people like Sen. Cruz at the helm.


Reply 14 - Posted by: StormCnter, 1/6/2013 2:17:25 PM     (No. 9101786)

#13, I guarantee Ted Cruz will not be leading some ill-advised, doomed effort at a third party.


Reply 15 - Posted by: TXknitter, 1/6/2013 3:04:30 PM     (No. 9101832)

...but if Cruz is as courageous as we conservatives know he is, the RINOs will be wishing soon he WOULD go third party. Cruz gets it. No courage, no articulate message is why the GOP is half dead. Thank God Cruz can help us fix it.


Reply 16 - Posted by: OhMy, 1/6/2013 3:46:06 PM     (No. 9101877)

It is soooooo refreshing finally at long last to hear a GOP leader debunk the Obama demagoguery. We need more of this.


Reply 17 - Posted by: lana720, 1/6/2013 5:13:58 PM     (No. 9101987)

Sen. Cruz is terrific. Was happy to see Fox News Sunday Morning allow him and all the others to speak, the only exception was that MD dem van Hollen.
We do not need more of Chris Wallace´s interruptions.
We need many Republicans to speak the truth. One man is great, but he will need reinforcements. Just watch your back!


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: tedinmich, 1/6/2013 6:26:30 PM     (No. 9102045)

Wasn´t John Roberts at one time a Lib on CNN or one of the alphabets?

Ted in Michigan


Reply 19 - Posted by: judy, 1/6/2013 7:36:57 PM     (No. 9102144)

The senate rinos are not going to be happy with a true conservative...it will be interesting to see how long Cruz holds these conservative views once he hits DC.



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