Posted on 03/14/2014 8:05:11 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
As the U.S. Senate took up a bill to provide financial aid to Ukraine, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, rose to object to an IMF bailout Majority Leader Harry Reid attached to the legislation.
In the process he blasted Reid for repeatedly demonizing the billionaire Koch brothers - Reid tried to blame the Koch brothers for halting progress on the Ukraine bill.
"I'm beginning to think [the Koch brothers] are a character almost out of Dr. Seuss in the majority leader's mind, they are the grinch who stole Christmas in his telling," Cruz said.
Cruz accused Reid of "using his position of personal power" to target private citizens who "are subject to villification and personal attacks" because they stand up for what they believe in.
"Senate rules allow a member of this body if his or her integrity is impugned to raise an objection," he said. "What Senate rule allows a private citizen to raise an objection when his integrity is impugned by the majority leader?"
"That is not the job of the United States Senate to villify private citizens," he said.
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Right....Sink outspent the winner several times over, a third party was in the race peeling off 5% of the vote, Obama had won the district both times.....and still she lost.
Harry Reid is the slimiest little weasel in a sea of slime.
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