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Posted on 02/16/2014 3:21:21 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Rather than allowing Senate Democrats to pass the bill with their own 55-seat majority, however, Cruz insisted on a 60-vote threshold, forcing a handful of Republicans help move the bill forward. No Senate Republicans ultimately voted to pass the legislation, but Cruz’s maneuver ruffled some feathers among his colleagues who felt he forced them to take an unpopular vote without any clear strategy to pass an alternative bill.
The Treasury Department has warned that a failure to extend the borrowing authority on time could invite a default on the nation’s debt.
Shortly after the bill passed on Wednesday, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., took a swipe at Cruz’s tactics, saying the Texas Republican had no “end game.”
Corker also praised the fortitude of Senate Republican leaders who helped advance the bill, saying they demonstrated “tremendous courage,” especially given the primary fights some of them are facing in 2014.
McCain echoed that commendation Sunday. “I appreciate our leadership voting the way that they did, even though they face primary oppositions,” he said. “There was enough of us that we move forward and put this issue behind us, and now focus on Obamacare, on the economy, on many other issues, in which we think are winning issues.”
Cruz has defended his approach to the debt ceiling vote, saying Republicans should put up or shut up if they’re so opposed to extending the U.S. borrowing authority.
“I recently had my staff print out a list of three pages of Republican senators — I might note all the people that are running around the press saying nasty things about me — saying ‘We will stand on the debt ceiling and fight for it,’” Cruz told conservative radio host Mark Levin on Thursday. “And then a few months later, it’s like they think the American people are just a bunch of rubes, that we don’t remember what they say.”
McCain and Cruz have clashed in the past, with McCain dubbing Cruz and some of his like-minded colleagues “wacko birds.” He later apologized for the label, but he’s continued to criticize Cruz’s confrontational style and tactics.
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Seems we have a few freepers getting their talking points from the GOP-E!
Ted Cruz Ping!
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/johnny
McCain you are one big liar and a sorry politician and a very poor American.
So, Mr. Corker and Mr. McCain, what is your end game? Other than kissing Obama’s ass.
I just realized that I agree with a lot of democrats on one issue. We both hate Corker.
A plan to resist is much better than a plan to surrender.
Yeah, and you Juanito McLame had a plan:
The plan to let Dictator 0bama spend trillions more on the destruction of the nation.
At least Juanito doesn’t have to worry about his great great grandchildren’s slavery to pay off the 0bama debt. With his wife’s hundred$ of million$ of dollars and his political connections, they will skate through life, unlike the great great grandchildren of most of us peasants.
Shove it, McSmegma.
As if you would have a plan...for anything except finding another camera and microphone.
McCain is one of the arrogant RINOs who helped put the country on the brink of disaster.
If he had any manners at all he would just shut up and get out of the way of people who want to end his kind of madness and restore the Constitution.
He’s a MAVERICK!
What happened to being a maverick?
The undocumented democrat speaks.
John McCain had no clue!
McCain: “ I appreciate how hard it ijh keeping pashe with our brothers and sisters acrosh the aisle, even when shome of them have to worry about crajy tea party voterjh back home...”
And John McCain had whatever plan the democrats gave him.
So John McLame what was your plan? Come now John Obama is such a nice guy. Really John what about all the work you and Odingle Obama did together and than he took all the credit while he was a senator. You were angry as a hornet, and your language was not repeatedly on FR. John explain to th rest of the USA why Arizona voted to censure you. John McLame is useless.
Their end game is simple: keep kicking the can past the next election and hope they die before the debt turns the United States into Cuba.
I must have missed it. What was the plan of the Bozo from Arizona?
Ted Cruz knows full well 0bummer will up the debt another 3 to 4 trillion in three years if he keeps getting a blank check that RINOs keep giving him.
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