Posted on 09/13/2013 5:05:48 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
House Republican leadership is furious with ultraconservative Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) whom they see as hobbling their efforts to secure an achievable spending victory by insisting on threatening a government shutdown over the unachievable goal of defunding Obamacare.
House GOP leaders want to pass a continuing resolution that jams Senate Democrats with lower spending levels while forcing a vote — without the risk of a shutdown — on Obamacare. But Lee and Cruz are giving them heartburn by screaming that this proposal amounts to surrender on Obamacare.
“If House Republicans go along with this strategy, they will be complicit in the disaster that is Obamacare,” said Cruz, dismissing the plan as “procedural chicanery.” Lee spoke out against it earlier this week, and is now supporting an alternate GOP measure backed by 43 Republicans which threatens a shutdown over Obamacare.
The two senators have significant influence among conservative House Republicans and activists who want to destroy Obamacare at all costs. So their opposition to Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) plan quickly contributed to the headache for House leaders, who were foced to postpone consideration of the bill until next week. It remains unclear if they’ll be able to get the votes.
House Republican leaders are tired of being painted as weak on Obamacare while Cruz and Lee are seen as grassroots heroes without having to take risks or make unpopular moves. The Boehner stopgap bill would let these senators filibuster if Democrats try to fund Obamacare, House aides point out, if they have the courage to.
“Ted Cruz and Mike Lee have been demanding a fight to defund Obamacare. The House offers to give them one and they say, no, no, you guys fight it,” said a House GOP aide, venting about colleagues on condition of anonymity. “We have been. For three years.”
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You too, Union Memebers.....Obama has thrown you under the bus!!!!
And that needs to be shouted from the housetops.
Every time a Republican steps in front of a microphone or a camera they need to pound this hard.
“Ultra-conservative” - I wish I could hear the term “Hard-Left” only one tenth as much.
They had best be more concerned with the fact their electorate is FURIOUS with THEM!!
Ted Cruz Ping!
They angry because someone is finally pointing out that they have no onions.
Yes, “leaders”? LOL. It must be intoxicating to be a politician. Even to be one of their flunkies. It has to be, the nonsense that they spew !
I hope and pray the Tea Party Senators stick to their guns (pardon the pun) and keep hammering away of killing odumbocare. Start by defunding it and then killing it all together. Odumbocare is bad for America.
What a bit of propaganda! They aren't "ultraconservative". They are conservative.
The House leadership, rinos all, pretend to be conservative but aren't at all. They vote for unending spending, adventurous war, homosexual agenda, open borders.
When confronted with real conservatives, they have to play politics to explain their own deceit.
ARRRGGGGHH!. Proof positive they want the disaster to go forward. Even a 6-year old is smart enough to understand that any shutdown would be 100% at Zero's Muslim hands.
They probably won't. Their constituents are empowered after stopping the vote on Obama's recreational war-mongering. Their constituents are mostly opposed to Obamacare the more they learn about it. The dems to save their arses next election will vote on the bill without Obamacare funding. Then Obama would have to veto the bill because it doesn't fund Obamacare.
It's a win for the 'pubs who really want to get rid of Obamacare, and not just have votes saying it's not a nice law.
Why hasn't someone ousted Boehner yet?
The feeling is mutual...
And they TEA party helped put them where they are
“House Republican leadership is furious with ultraconservative Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Ted Cruz (R-TX)”
Senators Lee and Cruz are Conservative. They are being labeled “ultraconservative” by those who are no longer if ever Conservative because they are trying to hold on to the brand “Conservative” that they are not and don’t deserve to be called.
I know it’s already been posted, but....
FUGOP-e
Anything else is just blather, not worth the time of a welfare recipient.
Not just a cluster, it’s the whole Charlie Foxtrot.
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