McConnell Shoots Down Ted Cruz's Plan To Risk Shutdown Over Obamacare

Talking Points Memo ^ | SEPTEMBER 23, 2013, 5:20 PM EDT | SAHIL KAPUR

[BlatherNaut]

Ha! Most probably don’t even know who Mrs Beasley is/was ;^)

whoever she is, she looks a lot like mitch (though probably surpasses him in intellect)

[Windflier]

Voting ain’t going to fix what is broke in this country..... Too late for playing nicey nicey. The enemy is inside the walls

Good for you for seeing through the charade that is U.S. politics today.

[Hostage]

Exactly, thank you.

[Political Junkie Too]

No procedural opportunity should be waived but that is McConnell busy undermining Cruz and Lee. 

It's the same thing that McConnell did with the debt ceiling fight in 2012. He swooped in at the last minute with a Senate "compromise" that undermined the House's strongest card and gave Obama the debt ceiling power. McConnell single-handedly snatched defeat from the House's victory, and now he's doing it again.

He's afraid of going against the Democrats, but not his own party.

-PJ

[RinaseaofDs]

McConnellCare.

I hope he chokes on it, because that’s his legacy, the turkey-necked hack.

[MinuteGal]

If you had bothered to read my post and made an effort to understand its plain talk you'd climb down from your high horse to understand I addressed voter registration in closed and open state primaries...NOT IN GENERAL ELECTIONS.

A conservative may live in a state where (if he has dumped his GOP registration) he would NOT be able to vote for, say, Ted Cruz over Al Capone in the primary. Therefore, he becomes an INNEFECTIVE conservative. Is this so difficult to understand?

I was NOT addressing general election voting....it's up to you whether or not you want to sit the general elections out or vote for third, fourth or fifth parties....it's a free country.

But you're no longer a worthwhile conservative if you cannot vote in GOP PRIMARIES and GOP SPECIAL ELECTIONS in a closed-primary state due to your unthinking petulance and a stupid registration change....you're merely a useless apolitical bag of hot air.

But, again, it's a free country.

Leni

[MWestMom]

I’ve always seen him as more of a turtle.

[TheOldLady]

Bump