Posted on 02/21/2014 6:14:49 AM PST by SoConPubbie
Former Rep. Steven LaTourette is a member in the establishment's war on the Tea Party. His deceptively named "Defending Main Street" PAC is being financed primarily by Wall Street and labor unions, which have contributed at least 20% to the group's fundraising haul.
In an appearance on MSNBC's The Last Word on Tuesday, LaTourette said that Cruz was "reprehensible" for forcing Republicans to go on the record to advance a bill to raise the debt ceiling without reducing spending. Cruz forced those like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) to vote to move the bill to the floor. McConnell said he had to act to "protect the country" before then voting against final passage of the bill, which passed with no Republican support.
"I don't think he is a Republican, to tell you the truth," LaTourette said on MSNBC, dividing Republicans on a liberal outlet that has vilified Republicans to the point where RNC Chairman Reince Priebus had previously called for a boycott. "I wish he would stop being a Republican and leave the party. That would be a nice thing."
LaTourette continued to criticize Cruz and conservatives for trying to "cannibalize" and "criticize" the party without mentioning that conservatives have been frustrated that when Republicans--like LaTourette--finally got control of government during the 2000s they expanded it instead of shrinking it. Conservative voters have elected those like Cruz and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) to make the GOP more reflective of its voters that have been trending more conservative the last 13 years since the "Boomtown" GOP crowd started controlling the federal government.
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If the representatives are bad then it is up to the voter to replace them.
The voter sets the bar. There are many issues for why a voter doesn’t do their job. But the fault lies with us.
I remember well Cruz saying that during the Gov. shut down......He keeps trying to tell us without blowing the actual means and ways that he ,and the good guys, are going about accomplishing that.
Frankly all the old guys in congress just need to go, on both sides of the aisle. They’re so accustomed to their own deceptions they can’t “see” the truth any more.....nor do they want to.
They are getting scared.
Cruz should not leave until the GOP courpse is fully rotted and the full stench is exposed and all Americans see what the GOP establishment really is.
Now is not quite the time. Let the media at Ted Cruz, I think he can handle it.
Get as many TEA party candidates in at the mid terms see
what happens, then move on from there.
Even a senate majority is not going to reverse the scope of this government monster, at the best there will be a lame duck dictator and then in 2016 will be prime time for a true downsizing, new party or not.
I don’t hold being in the GOP against Cruz. On the contrary, it is poetic irony to watch him torment them so.
LaTourette has apparently already left the Republican party and has never been a Conservative. Why would he care what Senator Cruz does?
So, in other words, no one saw it. Good.
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