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Frustrated Republicans Vent after Senate Vote
National Review Online ^ | September 27, 2013 5:32 PM | Betsy Woodruff

Posted on 09/28/2013 8:29:24 AM PDT by Hojczyk

One Senate aide blamed Corker’s spotlight-grabbing role as Cruz’s foil on weak Republican leadership. “Because our leadership has not led for a number of months because of electoral politics, Senator McCain and Senator Graham and Senator Corker have sort of emerged as sort of de facto leaders in a leadership vacuum,” he says. “I like Senator Cornyn, I like Senator McConnell, I respect them, I know their colleagues respect them, but in fairness there just has not been a whole lot of direction, there’s really been no strategy.”

“It might not work,” he adds of Cruz and Lee’s efforts (we spoke a few minutes before the vote), “but what’s the alternative that leadership or anyone else is offering? What’s Bob Corker’s plan?”

It’s messy, and there’s plenty of tension to go around. When asked about the level of frustration directed at his boss, an aide for a senator involved in the defund efforts says, laughing, that “it’s about as high as I’ve ever seen it.”

“I wouldn’t want to test it to see if it could go much higher,” he adds. “Change is hard. People don’t like changes.”

They also don’t like being targeted by members of their own party. Senator Lindsey Graham reiterated to me his frustration with some of his fellow Senate Republicans. “My fate is in my hands, not theirs, and they said some things about our colleagues that I just think are really out of line,” he adds of Cruz et al. “At the end of the day,” he continues, “they’ve got to decide what kind of role they want to play, I’ve got to decide what kind of role I want to play to grow the Republican party and to save the country.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Kentucky; US: South Carolina; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bobcorker; johncornyn; kentucky; lindseygraham; lundergangrimes; mattbevin; mitchmcconnell; nancymace; southcarolina; tedcruz; texas
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To: Hojczyk
McCain, Graham and Corker are the vacuum.

The are exactly the reason the gop is in its current leadership cunumbrum.

I'd through rove is as well.

21 posted on 09/28/2013 8:41:21 AM PDT by Pietro
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To: Hojczyk

22 posted on 09/28/2013 8:41:27 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Hojczyk

“...Time for a third party...”
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Which would accomplish...
...what was that again?
I can’t remember.


23 posted on 09/28/2013 8:41:39 AM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: Hostage

They decided they wanted Lindsey Graham.


24 posted on 09/28/2013 8:42:06 AM PDT by sport
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To: Hojczyk
One Senate aide blamed Corker’s spotlight-grabbing role as Cruz’s foil on weak Republican leadership. “Because our leadership has not led for a number of months because of electoral politics, Senator McCain and Senator Graham and Senator Corker have sort of emerged as sort of de facto leaders in a leadership vacuum,” he says.

Is this McLame's aide spouting this BS. If anyone has emerged as leaders in the Senate it has been Cruz, Paul, and Lee not these other doddering, feckless clowns.

25 posted on 09/28/2013 8:43:13 AM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: rrrod

Says it all.


26 posted on 09/28/2013 8:45:32 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: sport

Oh? Did the 2014 election already happen?


27 posted on 09/28/2013 8:48:43 AM PDT by Hostage (Be Breitbart!)
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To: sport
Graham is going to get his ass handed to him this election.

/johnny

28 posted on 09/28/2013 8:50:31 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Hojczyk
Time for a third party ?????

No. The Republican Party is a broken down, rat infested house with a yard full of weeds and trash. The Tea Party should do what is necessary to secure ownership of the property, kill the weeds, take out the trash, drown the rats and spruce the place up to make it look attractive to everyone else in the neighborhood. In fact, invite them over for a tour once the cleanup work is done. Perhaps the neighbors will visit more often once they realize decent people have moved in.
29 posted on 09/28/2013 8:51:53 AM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Repeal The 17th

it must take a lot of balls to keep hanging onto the Republican “dream”...


30 posted on 09/28/2013 8:53:12 AM PDT by dps.inspect (rage against the Obama machine...)
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To: Hojczyk

I understand the third party sentiment. I really do. However, I would rather clean house in the Republican Party first. It’s been stolen from us and we need to get it back.


31 posted on 09/28/2013 8:54:12 AM PDT by grimalkin (The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. -G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Hojczyk
“I wouldn’t want to test it to see if it could go much higher,” he adds. “Failure is hard. People don’t like failure.”

Fixed it.

32 posted on 09/28/2013 8:54:12 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Perdogg
If the GOP nominates Christie in 2016 I may stay home.

LOL!
"May"?
I vow here and now, and may God strike me down if I lie, I will never vote for Pork Porkie or Jeb Bush.

Bookmarked.

33 posted on 09/28/2013 8:54:16 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: VanDeKoik
Re your #20, You are absolutely correct.
34 posted on 09/28/2013 8:55:13 AM PDT by tnwalker
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To: LostInBayport

Ya but sometimes you just have to condemn the property and move to a new neighborhood... you stay and clean the rat feces, I’ve moved on...


35 posted on 09/28/2013 8:55:55 AM PDT by dps.inspect (rage against the Obama machine...)
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To: Hojczyk
America has a leadership deficiency and here we are in an economic depression that makes 1939 look like a picnic. The economy is on its a$$ and the clown in the White House wants more taxes for healthcare. Sheesh.

The only thing we have to fear is more tax collections by obama and the democrats.

36 posted on 09/28/2013 8:56:14 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Vlad the Impaler proposed no path to citizenhip. Consider that.)
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To: Hojczyk
We have a law that was passed without any input from any Pubs. We have a law that was pushed through even though the 40th vote against it was elected in a special election. We have a law that fundamentally alters our status from being free citizens to serfs of the state.

The only reason I can think of that the Pubs don't fight at every turn is they have exempted themselves and think of themselves as the ruling class over the serfs.

37 posted on 09/28/2013 8:57:04 AM PDT by wmfights
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To: Hojczyk
"Time for a third party ?????

ABSOLUTELY NOT !!!

The Tea Party is gaining steam in the Republican Party; why would it want to lose this momentum and lose Republican votes?

38 posted on 09/28/2013 8:58:29 AM PDT by celmak
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To: Hojczyk

No, Ted Cruz is the leader.

That’s all no one else.

Outside of Mike lee, the rest of the GOP is useless panty waste, and it is time to take out the trash.


39 posted on 09/28/2013 8:59:58 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Logical me
"Or clean out and reorganize the Republican Party. I'm disgusted with McCain and Graham"

Correct! The Tea Party within the Republican Party can possibly primary these two fools; outside the Republican, Party the, the chances are much slimmer.

40 posted on 09/28/2013 9:02:09 AM PDT by celmak
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