Posted on 02/12/2014 12:45:49 PM PST by jimbo123
Anyone who listened to Republican senators yesterday could tell they were unhappy to be stuck with a "clean" debt limit increase. Oh, not that most of them didn't want to pass it and move on. They did! But it was going to be tough to sell back home. It got tougher after Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, shocking absolutely no one, said he'd demand a cloture vote on the bill, one that would require every Democrat and independent and at least five Republicans to suspend the debt limit through the 2014 election.
The plus: A filibuster would put the squeeze on vulnerable Democrats. Mark Pryor, Mark Begich, Kay Hagan, John Walsh, and Mary Landrieu would have to vote for a no-frills debt limit hike—none of them could take a powder. (In 2006 Democrats didn't ask for cloture, and two Republicans on the ballot that year got to vote "no." One of them, Montana's Conrad Burns, lost.)
The minus: See above, re: "five Republicans." The vote was held open for 45 minutes as Harry Reid struggled to break past 58 votes for passage. Finally, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell and Texas Sen. John Cornyn arrived to vote "aye" and push the bill through.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Life in America is now satire walking.
these men are absolutely worthless
When Slate praises you as “saving America”, you’re finished ... terrific ad material for Matt Bevin and Steve Stockman.
‘Save America’ LOLO
DADADA
A leading light of the Beltway elite approves. I figure it’s like being on Marie Antoinette’s A-list circa 1789. BTT
Commie
Slate only hires Trotskyites who have been lobotimized with an icepick. Other than that, this article measures up as another stupid tirade by Slate...Blah, blah, blah!!! (Has Slate’s market value hit $0 yet. Would love to buy it for no other reason than to practice experiments in a vacuum inside this scribbler’s head.)
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