Posted on 12/14/2014 4:55:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Post reports:
The Senate on Saturday night approved a sweeping $1.1 trillion spending bill to fund most of the federal government through the next fiscal year, turning back a conservative rebellion against President Obama’s immigration policy.
On a vote of 56 to 40, senators passed the spending bill and sent it to Obama, who plans to sign it. The bill’s passage eliminates the threat of a government shutdown and capped days of acrimonious debate on Capitol Hill over the omnibus agreement.
A small group of conservatives, led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), had sought to slow debate on the bill by raising concerns with Obama’s immigration policy, forcing a marathon weekend session. The move infuriated their colleagues, particularly Republicans who complained that forcing senators to stay in session produced nothing positive for the GOP and only helped Democrats in their bid to approve a final batch of Obama’s nominees for government posts.
The vote and drama that preceded it were indicative of the upcoming shift in power in the Senate, not only from Democratic to Republican but from cranks on the far right to constructive conservative legislation. Cruz can annoy and grandstand, but he no longer will affect outcomes of legislative fights, and his reputation as a showboating dilettante is cemented....
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Does she use a broom to get about DC?
Oh its time for Rubin’s “hate Ted Cruz” article this week already? Cruz lives inside this woman’s head rent free apparently.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Rhymes with “itch”.....
Reading Jennifer Rubin is a waste of time.
There are a huge amont of people in this counttry who don't even realize that January is a new congress and can be a game changer if we raise enough stink.
They (LIVs) think the boobs that voted this week are the newly elected body.
I am grubering onto the dems and their dumb serfs.
The stink is on those who just served the crap sandwich Cronibus bill and not the new congress that is unless they cave to the GOPe.o
Consensus can built to adjust the leadership.
It can happen. Will it?
You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?
Ha ha ha.
i am so tired of libtards telling me what constitutes far right cranks, constructive conservative, etc.
they wouldn’t know it if it bit them in the ass. they think a conservative is anyone who doesn’t 100% agree with them, and they are rightwing extremists if they actually defend their position unapologetically.
She forgot to mention the GOP hates most americans unless they are COC members, wealthy donors, crony capitalist of wall street bankers.
GOP still despises Ted Cruz?
Grate. I despise all of those who despise Senator Ted Cruz.
This is an endorsement compared to what she writes about Rand Paul.
Remember, neocons were originally communists. There’s nothing conservative about them. Everybody hates this little airhead. But, Krauthammer is the same way and he’s STILL fooling people.
GOP Elite once despised Reagan as well.
They have always been problematic.
Quislings.
No one in the GOP hates Ted more than the other Senator from Texas, Cornyn. John is grooming himself to run the Senate and thinks it is insolent for Ted to stand for something.
IN the meantime, Cornyn and his GOP cohorts try to tell us to trust them, as they continue to give Obama and the Dems everything on their liberal wish list.
Cornyn is disgusting.
“cranks on the far right . . . Cruz . . . a showboating dilettante”
JenRub—the ComPost’s Republican voice.
Rhino Hatch wasn’t happy with Cruz either. I guess he wanted to get along to his Christmas Holiday. American people be damned-
“You should have an end goal in sight if you’re going to do these types of things and I don’t see an end goal other than irritating a lot of people,” said Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah.
These traitors are in Class III and up for re-election in 2016
Ayotte (R-NH)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Coats (R-IN)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kirk (R-IL)
Thune (R-SD)
Toomey (R-PA)
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