Ted Cruz pajamas.
Posted on 09/22/2015 7:14:25 PM PDT by VinL
Ted Cruz deemed Harry Reid as the head of the Republican Senate on Tuesday.
Cruz told reporters after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced a resolution to temporarily fund the government that he felt the Kentucky Republican was no longer the leader of the body where the GOP holds an eight-seat majority.
"The position of Republican leadership boils down to this: They will support 100% of the priorities of Democrats," said Cruz, a Republican who is running for president. "Today, the leader in the Senate is Harry Reid because Republican leadership has said nothing will pass without Harry Reid's support. Today, the leader is the House is Nancy Pelosi."
Senate leadership has frustrated Cruz's attempt to permanently defund Planned Parenthood, which is under attack for secretly taped, edited videos that have tarnished the women's health group, as part of current budget talks. Republican leaders have said they have no appetite for risking a Cruz-led shutdown that would defund the organization.
Cruz has made Republicans his foil just as often as he has Democrats -- often criticizing the "McConnell-Reid leadership team" -- but the Texas senator's blast is the latest signal that his fight with top Senate Republicans is intensifying as the Sept. 30 budget deadline approaches. Republicans said Tuesday that Cruz did not attend the conference's regular lunch.
Democrats and Republican legislators are at a budget logjam over whether to continue public funding to Planned Parenthood. The White House has said they will not sign a budget that cuts funding for the organization, which funds women's health services beyond abortions, but congressional Republicans have said that defunding the group remains a top priority. Republican leadership, nervous about the political ramifications of a shutdown, are frustrated by conservatives -- like Cruz -- who want to stare down Democrats.
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I know many think these issues are "done deals", and perhaps they are.
But, Trump has shown the magnitude of the anti-establishment resentment, and it's important to make a very public demonstration against the nefarious machinations of inbred DC.
Time for another reading of Green Eggs and Ham.
Pelosi, Reid, and Baraq have made the term “lame duck president” obsolete, at least for Democrats.
He ain’t wrong.
I was under the mistaken impression that the voters had given the Republican party a majority in both the Senate and the House a year ago. WRONG!!!
I have to agree with Senator Cruz. Harry and his ugly brother Nancy are still in charge.
Maybe Heb! will come out in support of the love of the Constitution exhibited daily by Ditch.
In the Senate we have Foghorn Leghorn. In the House, we have an incoherent drunk. Both respond to every move by their puppermasters at the Chamber of Commerce. Neither does a damn thing for the base of the party and couldn’t care less.
This is news??
Mitch McConnell is an embarrassment to the GOP and doesn’t have a clue how to run anything. Boehner is no better. These two need to grow a couple of pairs and start pushing for a conservative agenda or they will find themselves on the outside looking in next time reelection time comes around. They are pathetic.
At least when the dems control Congress, you can see the knives coming at you from the front. Boohooner and McConman need to go.
Ted Cruz pajamas.
Even with Trump factored into the Equation helping Cruz call these Buzzards out, it’s a done deal.
Both on the Budget and IRAN. The have SOLD the SOUL of this once Great Country.
got that right.
The establishment has no balls.
We are witnessing the Republican establishment in its death throes. Think about it. What conservative is going to hold their noses again for Republican incumbents? If someone like Jeb is nominated, the GOP will totally collapse.
Unfortunately on this issue the Donald is AOL
Mitch McConnell is an embarrassment to the GOP and doesn’t have a clue how to run anything. Boehner is no better. These two need to grow a couple of pairs and start pushing for a conservative agenda or they will find themselves on the outside looking in next time reelection time comes around. They are pathetic.
Very probably there not be a........... NEXT TIME..
Could be 2012 was the LAST TIME... with 50 million votable illegals..
2016 could be deluded republicans looking for respect..
when there will BE NO RESPECT..
John Cornyn might be the only squish who sees what is coming to his ilk: he has been silent since the midterms. He must be about to be exposed.
Burn, Uniparty, BURN.
Looking hard to find a video of Cruz’s statements. What a powerful video that would be.
I know that many of my Conservatives Brothers and Sisters would disagree with me and I am all for Cruz as President, but if he does not get the nomination for President, then please give me a Trump/Cruz ticket, so that he can become President of the Senate!!! Cruz would then have 4 years to get rid of all these sellout RINOs and lumps in the Congress that will not fight for the Conservative agenda.
When that TURTLE, McConnell falls off this POST, in 2016, hopefully he’ll fall on Cornyn’s Head and render him incapable of anything useful, much less a US Senator.
Good to see you Kev!
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