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McConnell Sparks Conservative Ire With Debt-Limit Vote
The Hill ^
| February 12, 2014
| Alexandra Jaffe
Posted on 02/14/2014 2:24:42 PM PST by lbryce
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The conservative ire raised against this pusillanimous trigger-lover that Mconnell revealed himself to be in licking his master's boots in obsequious impotent sycophancy showed that there was still a price to pay for chicken-hearted betrayers in abandonment of the cause.
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posted on
02/14/2014 2:24:42 PM PST
by
lbryce
To: lbryce
You mean they didn't even have to bribe him this time?
Maybe they did, we just haven't found out about it yet.
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posted on
02/14/2014 2:30:49 PM PST
by
ZOOKER
(Until further notice the /s is implied...)
To: lbryce
Please KY, dump this turd.
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posted on
02/14/2014 2:32:16 PM PST
by
VRWC For Truth
(Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
To: lbryce
There was nothing to be won, the people are heavily against this method of fighting overspending.
But he still sucks and here’s why. He voted for cloture, which was the decisive vote, and then voted against the debt ceiling rise which was meaningless as he knew it would pass without his vote.
Up yours, McConnell, I hope you get retired by your electorate.
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posted on
02/14/2014 2:39:05 PM PST
by
SaxxonWoods
(....Let It Burn...)
To: lbryce
Yeah, baby!
To: VRWC For Truth
Inspired me to donate to Bevins campaign
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posted on
02/14/2014 2:45:00 PM PST
by
Josa
To: VRWC For Truth
Inspired me to donate to Bevins campaign
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posted on
02/14/2014 2:45:23 PM PST
by
Josa
To: Zuben Elgenubi
Thanks for the image. I hadn’t seen it but it is every bit as nauseating as I had envisioned.
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posted on
02/14/2014 2:47:16 PM PST
by
lbryce
(Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
To: Zuben Elgenubi
I love your tagline. No HOPe for the GOPe works nearly as well.
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posted on
02/14/2014 2:50:12 PM PST
by
lbryce
(Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
To: lbryce
McConnell did this also with the Ted Cruz filibuster vote last September. He voted yes on cloture when NO would have stopped it, and then claimed that he voted NO on the bill when it was already assured to pass.
-PJ
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posted on
02/14/2014 2:51:54 PM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: lbryce
"See, see, evil purist right-wing Teabaggers - McConnell voted AGAINST the bill! This is why I love the Republican Party. They vote against it in the end!!"
< /S >
To: lbryce
America pays its bills
If being an conservative now means America doesn't pay its bills than I'll have to call myself something other than a conservative...an American comes to mind.
To: montanajoe
America pays its bills
If being an conservative now means America doesn't pay its bills than I'll have to call myself something other than a conservative...an American comes to mind.
What is that supposed to mean in the context of the traitorous, deceitful behavior we just witnessed from John Cornyn and Mitch McConnell?
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posted on
02/14/2014 3:55:29 PM PST
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: SoConPubbie
It means what it says.
I support Cruz generally but he is playing the same idiot political game all politicians do on this issue without regard to the consequences of their actions in the world economy.
In my view there should never be an issue regarding the debt. The idiots incurred the bills and we are on the hook..end of story.
I don't like it but a conservative always pays the bills incurred in the name of the United States in my universe.
The idea that somehow America would shirk this responsibility shows to me that Liberals and Liberaltarians are dead beats..and as I conservative I have no use for either.
To: montanajoe
The idea that somehow America would shirk this responsibility shows to me that Liberals and Liberaltarians are dead beats..and as I conservative I have no use for either.
And just where, did Ted Cruz say we should renege on paying our debt?
Please find and post the relevant speech or comment for us so we are all enlightened as you?!
No, what Ted Cruz was fighting for was the same leverage that has been used the LAST 55 times the Debt Ceiling has been raised, some sort of compromise to either decrease the growth IN THE FUTURE, or somehow limit the size of the government.
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posted on
02/14/2014 4:25:42 PM PST
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: montanajoe
You do understand that they passed a “CLEAN” debt ceiling raise with no effort to get a compromise from the other side, right?
They CAPITULATED WITHOUT A FIGHT!
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posted on
02/14/2014 4:27:01 PM PST
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: SoConPubbie
The problem I have is that the idiots in Washington has shown the world they are so dysfunctional and unable to show any level of competence to govern that they are reduced to playing idiot games.
I'm sorry but Cruz has fell on his ass on this one and shows not leadership but demonstrates the best chance for America's future in my view is stuck in partisan politics and has no grasp of the economic world we live in..
To: SoConPubbie
“They CAPITULATED WITHOUT A FIGHT!”
There should never be a fight on this issue.
To: montanajoe; SoConPubbie
There should never be a fight on this issue. You are, of course, correct.
But your position presumes that both sides are in fundamental agreement about spending levels and resultant debt levels. And that both have had equal input into the spending decisions that have incurred the debt.
But, in this case, no, they are not in agreement, nor have they had equal input. And the reason is that one side -- the GOP House side -- had no input on spending levels for FY 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. Recall that the Democrats -- and, then, the Democrat Senate -- failed to pass a budget for any of those years, intentionally leaving spending levels to the workings of the "baseline budget" -- which had been inflated to the tune of $1 trillion by Porkulus.
I.e., the Democrats cheated the House out of its rightful role in authorizing any and all expenditures, in contravention of the Constitution.
The Republicans thus have every reason fight the issue. That they did not redounds to their discredit.
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posted on
02/14/2014 4:51:16 PM PST
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media -- IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: montanajoe
America pays its bills If being an conservative now means America doesn't pay its bills than I'll have to call myself something other than a conservative...an American comes to mind.
Except, had this bill failed, the US would have paid its bills. It just would have to cut future spending in order to keep the total US debt under the present amount. So you are actually advocating more spending, with not checks on the amount we go in debt for it. You're right... you're not a conservative...
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