ooohhh...Meredith, a whole 40 minutes to discuss wasting billions more tax dollars is too much for Republicans to ask for you?!
Posted on 02/12/2014 12:57:00 PM PST by jimbo123
Senate Republican leaders Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and John Cornyn of Texas on Wednesday voted to advance legislation that would increase the nation’s borrowing capacity — but not before they spent 40 minutes of the open vote trying to get others to do it for them, likely out of fear of the conservative blowback that came almost immediately.
Earlier this week, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, demanded the 60-vote procedural move, which put McConnell and Cornyn in the uncomfortable position of having to find five Republicans to join Democrats in supporting the debt ceiling measure. By doing so, Cruz gave perfect fodder to tea party groups and candidates, like the Senate Conservatives Fund and McConnell opponent Matt Bevin, against in-cycle Republicans who would need to vote for the bill as opposed to just letting Democrats do it themselves with a simple majority.
Within minutes, the two leaders were getting hit on social media by their opponents.
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Rep. Steve Stockman @StockmanSenate Follow John Cornyn just voted to kill Ted Cruz's filibuster and raise the debt limit. #tcot #teaparty #gop #republican #txsen #txlege #txgop
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I don’t understand why the GOP senators let it get to 67 votes. Only 60 were needed.
Some need to get right with K Street....
See #38
McConnell must have confidence that he will be hired by a big money employer after the 2014 election. He knows he is at risk so he wouldn’t make a controversial vote. Either that, or he thinks the Dems and media are going to give him some favorable publicity (which won’t save him, but he doesn’t know that).
As others have said, the R party promises responsible governing but when in office, they behave meekly and never ask for anything to support Americans, only offering token resistance to the never-ending string of extreme leftist demands of the Dem party. In the end, they always “compromise” with we Americans giving up something and the leftists never giving up a thing.
The R party says, we have to win back the Senate, then we will have some leverage. But, if they win the Senate, they will say they have to win back the Presidency to have the needed power to fix things. But, if they win the Presidency, they still have the media propaganda system beating them day in and day out. They will always seek favorable media treatment, like McCain, but the media will never treat them fairly. The media only wants to use them. It is the media they fear the most and it is only the hard left media they fear. They are terrified of any media criticism. But they will never get fair treatment from the media, so winning all the elections will never achieve their real goal of being liked by the media. It will never happen.
The R party leadership must go and be replaced by a leadership that doesn’t fear the leftist media and has another strategy for getting its message to Americans. That is the key and professional political consultants, who are obsessed with getting good media exposure on leftist propaganda outlets, must be avoided. It is a fool’s errand.
Cruz is for real - he has the shoulders to bear the weight of righteousness and we need more like him. Let's hope the Dims haven't already won the end game and we have a chance to build some conservative reps before it becomes too late.
ooohhh...Meredith, a whole 40 minutes to discuss wasting billions more tax dollars is too much for Republicans to ask for you?!
Concessions were there for the taking. But the RINO “leadership” didn’t even put up a token resistance. They just folded like cheap lawn chairs.
Take them out. They voted to impoverish our children and grandchildren with trillions more of debt. They are the enemy.
It is amazing how the MSM twist things. As if McConnell and Bonehead only look bad capitulating because of what Ted Cruz says. Crazy.
Will you please stop spamming every thread with that?!
John Thune just destroyed any political future he may have wanted outside his state.
Concessions were there for the taking. But the RINO “leadership” didn’t even put up a token resistance.
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The more to pad their own pockets with, my FRiend.
With all due respect, kcvl, this is the only thread I’ve seen it on. So thanks for the post, Graewoulf.
Enjoy your retirement, Cornyn.
“Some need to get right with K Street....”
And Wall Street. That is why Peter King keeps calling Tea Party “morons”. Without them he is toast.
Wrong, they have posted it on every thread I have read on the economy.
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