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Ted Cruz’ debt ceiling filibuster puts John Cornyn on hot seat
Dallas Morning News ^ | 2/12/14 | Todd J. Gillman

Posted on 02/12/2014 12:40:44 PM PST by jimbo123

In case you weren’t glued to C-Span2 for the last hour, here’s what you missed.

The Senate voted 67-31 to quash a filibuster by Sen. Ted Cruz that would have blocked the Senate from lifting the federal debt ceiling. Cruz voted against cloture, naturally. But the top GOP leaders, fellow Texas Sen. John Cornyn and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, sided with Democrats to cut off the filibuster.

The measure raising the federal credit line through March 2015 sailed through the House on Tuesday, after Speaker John Boehner decided that it would be better to let Democrats own it (only 28 Republicans voted aye) than to dig in, insist on budget concessions, and force a stalemate that would spook world markets and risk a default.

Cruz announced the same day that he wouldn’t let the Senate raise the debt ceiling via a simple 51-vote majority. The filibuster threat pushed the threshold to 60.

As GOP strategist John Feehery pointed out,, Democrats control 55 votes, so without Cruz’s maneuver, they would have been fully responsible, politically, for raising the debt ceiling. Instead, Cruz put GOP leadership on the spot.

Cornyn and McConnell – both facing tea party challengers for reelection – took the heat, and voted for cloture.

(Excerpt) Read more at trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cloture; cornyn; cornyncloture; cruz; johncornyn; teaparty; tedcruz
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1 posted on 02/12/2014 12:40:44 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

Who were the other 30 good guys who voted with Ted?


2 posted on 02/12/2014 12:44:05 PM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: jimbo123
Cornyn and McConnell – both facing tea party challengers for reelection – took the heat, and voted for cloture.

Profiles in Dutch Courage.

3 posted on 02/12/2014 12:45:30 PM PST by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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To: jimbo123

Midge and McCornyn have to go. Worthless RINO traitors.


4 posted on 02/12/2014 12:45:52 PM PST by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: Jane Long
I am answering my own question from senate.gov

NAYs ---31
Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Coats (R-IN)
Cochran (R-MS)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Enzi (R-WY)
Fischer (R-NE)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Heller (R-NV)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johnson (R-WI)
Lee (R-UT)
Moran (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Portman (R-OH)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rubio (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Toomey (R-PA)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)

5 posted on 02/12/2014 12:50:13 PM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: jimbo123

Thank you Ted Cruz! Give them no place to hid.


6 posted on 02/12/2014 12:50:55 PM PST by Lake Living
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To: jimbo123

“John Cornyn is treating Ted Cruz’s back like his own personal cutlery holder,” Stockman tweeted after the vote.

That’s classic!!


7 posted on 02/12/2014 12:53:33 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: jimbo123
I bet Cruz doesn't get many DC party invites.

I bet Cruz doesn't care.

8 posted on 02/12/2014 12:54:31 PM PST by AU72
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To: BigEdLB

McAyotte voted Nay??? She must be finally getting the messages we’ve all been sending her. She’s still a McGrahamnesty suck up, tho.


9 posted on 02/12/2014 12:55:25 PM PST by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: BigEdLB

Cloture vote:

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=2&vote=00033#top


10 posted on 02/12/2014 12:58:08 PM PST by deport
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To: jimbo123

Everyone should remember...

The RINO “leadership” said “wait for the debt fight, that’s what we want to shutdown”

And this is what they did.

Cruz and Lee are the real leaders. Corny and McFuneralHome are phonies from the past.


11 posted on 02/12/2014 1:00:34 PM PST by Regulator
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To: jimbo123; infool7; SunshinesStormySummerSon; Ditter; PistolPaknMama; Blue Collar Christian; ...

Ted Cruz Ping!

If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.

Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!


12 posted on 02/12/2014 1:01:41 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: jimbo123

Blood in the water....

Who are the T.E.A. party members that are challenging Cornyn and McConnell. Support them TODAY!


13 posted on 02/12/2014 1:02:16 PM PST by alloysteel (Obamacare - Death and Taxes now available online. One-stop shopping at its best!)
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To: jimbo123

Think of it this way:

Cruz forced McConnell and Cornyn to publicly back Reid and 0bamacare against the Republican Grass Roots.

Just like Boner in the House.

The “Leadership” is now in full revolt against their caucuses, constituents, and parties.

CRUZ WINS THE SET!


14 posted on 02/12/2014 1:12:56 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Mohammed was a pedophile and Islam is a Totalitarian Death Cult.)
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To: AU72
I bet Cruz doesn't get many DC party invites. I bet Cruz doesn't care.

He'd rather read Dr. Seuss to his children.

15 posted on 02/12/2014 1:16:17 PM PST by CedarDave (Obama - "That's the good thing as a President, I can do whatever I want" (02/10/14 declaration))
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To: jimbo123

Once again, Senator Cruz unmasks the Trojan Horses in our midst!


16 posted on 02/12/2014 1:17:22 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: BigEdLB
national heroes one and all!
17 posted on 02/12/2014 1:17:31 PM PST by Cheapskate (Play loud and carry BIG sticks!)
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18 posted on 02/12/2014 1:19:04 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: jimbo123
...after Speaker John Boehner decided that it would be better to let Democrats own it (only 28 Republicans voted aye) than to dig in, insist on budget concessions, and force a stalemate that would spook world markets and risk a default.

Boehner needs to go now - "letting the Dims own it" still screws the People and the markets need to be spooked sooner rather than later to minimize the already horrible damage that is pending.

19 posted on 02/12/2014 1:21:07 PM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Lake Living

Thank G-d for Ted Cruz. I thought I’d run out of heroes.


20 posted on 02/12/2014 1:22:09 PM PST by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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