Willard: "It will NEVER be for US, our families or our staff."
Posted on 09/23/2013 7:37:48 PM PDT by Qbert
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will not join an effort in the Senate to block a House-passed spending bill that defunds Obamacare, a spokesman for McConnell said Monday.
“Sen. McConnell supports the House Republicans’ bill and will not vote to block it, since it defunds Obamacare and funds the government without increasing spending by a penny. He will also vote against any amendment that attempts to add Obamacare funding back into the House Republicans’ bill,” said Don Stewart, a spokesman for the Republican senator.
The statement represents a divergence from the approach favored by Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), who want Republicans to oppose a procedural vote on the House bill before Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) plans to strip out the Obamacare defunding provision by a majority vote.
“If and when the majority leader goes down that path, Washington Democrats will have to decide — without hiding behind a procedural vote — whether or not to split with their leadership and join Republicans and their constituents in opposing the re-insertion of Obamacare funding into the House-passed bill,” Stewart added.
A spokeswoman for McConnell’s top lieutenant, Minority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, said that Cornyn too will break with Cruz and Lee.
“Sen. Cornyn will not block a bill that defunds Obamacare,” the spokeswoman said.
Time to boot dead wood.
Anyone who goes against Cruz in 2013 will be mincemeat in 2014.
"So you see Tea Party Rednecks, my @ss is covered. There, I voted against Obamacare. Now stop trying to primary me, will ya?"
It would appear, then, that the enemies of liberty are beginning to out themselves.
2 compromised career leeches doing the right thing, begrudgingly. They must be ousted as well.
Thank you for posting this. Many of us spent the day chasing these guys down, wondering of the outcome. Appreciate it very much.
According to Cruz, on Hannity, it certainly looks like we go back to the phones for Friday 60 vote effort, for debate.
KICK ‘EM TO THE CURB!
Willard: "It will NEVER be for US, our families or our staff."
"So you see Tea Party Rednecks, my @ss is covered. There, I voted against Obamacare. Now stop trying to primary me, will ya?"
Yep. They love to thump their chests and pretend that they're doing something- knowing it will have no actual effect.
Oh, well... it makes it a lot easier to primary these fools now.
I’m not sure; does this keep Cruz from filibustering? Is it the same as saying Mc Connell and Cornyn will vote for cloture?
On a 51 vote matter Harry can let up to 5 of his most vulnerable people vote against it.
If they want to take the Senate in 2014 they have to force a 60 vote requirement on the Dems so those vulnerable Dems have to vote for Obamacare.
Why won’t they try to win??????????????
Folks, any Republican who votes for cloture should be voted against the next time they are up for reelection. We are getting nowhere with these cowards.
As my grandmother might have said, "Gutless coward traitors."
This will flush out the RINOs in time for the primaries.
“...By filibustering the bill before it comes to the floor, though, a mere 41 Republicans can block Reid from amending the bill to take the defunding provisions out, which would paralyze the chamber and probably lead to a shutdown... To have any chance of stopping a “clean” Democratic CR in the Senate, you need 41 Republicans willing to filibuster. And now, here’s the minority leader saying he won’t be part of that.”
Cruz’s tactic probably won’t work, but what has the establishment proposed? Oh yes, we’ll oppose it next time because the time isn’t right now. Then it’s next time again. Next time never comes.
The GOP is dead to me. Not another frickin dime of my money will help fund this neo-socialist party. Dead.
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