Posted on 12/14/2014 6:10:42 AM PST by cotton1706
WASHINGTON (AP) — One colleague called the tactics of tea party-backed Sen. Ted Cruz on the $1.1 trillion spending bill a painful echo of last year's 16-day partial government shutdown.
Another senator said it was a strategy without an end game.
And that sniping came from Cruz's fellow Republicans.
The 43-year-old Texas freshman in a hurry — he's considering a 2016 presidential run — infuriated several GOP colleagues with a last-minute attempt to force a vote on President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration.
The move upended lawmakers' weekend plans and, more troubling for his party, gave Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., an opening to move forward on long-stalled Obama nominees.
When Cruz got his vote Saturday, he lost badly, 74-22, as even Republicans who agree with him on immigration repudiated his effort. Moments later, Congress cleared the spending bill.
"You should have an end goal in sight if you're going to do these types of things and I don't see an end goal other than irritating a lot of people," said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.
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Progressivism is centralized government, an evolving view of the Constitution that means it really means nothing, a welfare state verging into socialism and then full fledged marxism, and, in order to enforce its dictates, an erosion of freedom that leads eventually to an obedient semi-slavery for the citizens.
The GOPe are progressives. Democrats are now fully progressive. In the past, they had progressive and non-progressive elements, and survived through a coalition of interests. Thus, southern Democrats, non-progressive, worked with Northeastern and northern midwestern progressives to overcome the voting power of Republicans, and maintain power in their regions. The deal required progressives in the north to look the other way as southerners maintained their unlawful hold on the citizenry though violation of constitutional rights. That coalition fell apart in the 60s, although some southerners who were not progressive stayed in the party. What we have now is a situation where there are no remaining members of the Democrat party who are not progressive. Those who weren't, are now (recall, for example, the former KKK leader, Robert Byrd and his progressive voting record after figuring out he had to get with the progressive agenda. Manchin is following his example.
So, it is just progressives (GOPe in control of the GOP, and all Democrats) against conservatives, who do not control a party. If conservatives cannot take over the GOP, which I think is probably the case, then there is only one solution to that situation.
There are enough Cruz haters all over the place. We do not need anti-Ted sentiments here at FR. GO TED GO!!!!
Show vote only, he does not support Cruz.
We have to start recognizing that many of these supporting votes do not matter because what they are voting against or for doesn't matter, the outcome is already determined.
Ghomert and Bachman both swore that the House bill was written and approved months before the actual vote took place, negotiation with conservatives, was never a part of the process.
We have only one half of one third of the government, you can't expect us to do anything. Now if you just give us the Senate then we will really get busy helping you, but if you really expect anything to be done you must give us the presidency.
I am still waiting for Bush to undo all the EOs that Clinton did. Never gonna happen they all play the same game, we are the losers they are the winners. I am ready for a Gasoline tax increase now that they have Gasoline back under $4.00, we won't even notice it.
Nothing will be pulled or added that would require it to go back to the House for approval, you know that for sure.
This country desperately needs a hero and savior!
In deed when Bob Dole was asked about the anti abortion plank in the GOP platform, he replied, no one ever reads that thing.
Email the GOP and ask to be removed from their solicitation and organizing list because the GOP no longer represents your interests. We need to swamp them with requests for removal.
we need a GOP - DO NOT CALL LIST. Put me on it.
Hatch may be the senior Republican senator now: he took office on January 3, 1977; two years before Thad Cochran.
If you think that Reid was going to let even one pending nomination not get forced through before the 'rats lose control, you're crazy.
I remember that; Mr. Dole looked particularly miffed when asked about “his” platform. It was a clue he was a disaster in waiting.
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