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Cruz Senate Provocation Goes Unpunished as Tools Ineffective
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| Kathleen Hunter
Posted on 02/15/2014 6:15:41 AM PST by cotton1706
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I love posting these stories because they're a window into how these people think.
All Cruz did was deny a unanimous consent. He didn't agree on the issue, therefore, it wasn't unanimous. It wasn't a 100-0 issue, therefore, the result is that the body takes a vote to decide, or resolve it. But because of the body rules that Cruz played no part in making, for the vote to succeed, it required 60 votes, which those who supported the issue would have to gather together if they wanted it to pass.
And somehow, this merits punishment in the establishment's eyes. The idea that the United States Senate should actually vote according to its own rules.
But the dirty little secret is, that these rules have been created specifically so that senators won't have to vote on issues. They can pass legislation by "unanimous consent," that is "both all and none are responsible" for the legislation. Very convenient, especially for senators like McConnell, who hide behind his "conservative" rating but work to pass legislation behind the scenes.
Ted Cruz did nothing but make senators vote, and for that, there's talk of punishment. But punishment won't be had. Oh, too bad!
To: cotton1706
It did flush out the politicians that do not believe in living within our means. That is a good thing IMHO.
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posted on
02/15/2014 6:18:25 AM PST
by
refermech
To: cotton1706
"Be reasonable, like me, dammit!"
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posted on
02/15/2014 6:18:45 AM PST
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: cotton1706
McConnell and Cornyn: clearly part of the problem.
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posted on
02/15/2014 6:18:55 AM PST
by
Paladin2
To: cotton1706
Give me ONE Cruz, as opposed to a thousand McCain’s.
To: cotton1706
The LEFT (and RINOs) will always tell you who and what they fear.
To: Paladin2
With what little procedural power Cruz has, he sure makes the best of it. I love this no holds barred approach.
To: cotton1706
Ted Cruz reminds me of my favorite U.S. Senator in my lifetime: Jesse Helms of North Carolina. He and Ronald Reagan did more to save this country for a generation than anyone else. And, yeah, Jesse also made a lot of the GOPe perpetually angry by insisting that they go on record.
I'm sure that McCain and his ilk breathed a huge sigh of relief when Helms retired. Until now.
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posted on
02/15/2014 6:26:24 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: cotton1706
In this day and age, there are no tools available to a leader to punish a member like Senator CruzWhat has our country come to, when they moan about "no tools" to "punish" a Senator for speaking his mind, and look at the floor when somebody mentions Zero's uncountable Constitutional outrages.
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posted on
02/15/2014 6:26:34 AM PST
by
jiggyboy
To: Travis McGee
One day McCain will get so ‘furious’ that he strokes out.
Well, one can hope.
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posted on
02/15/2014 6:27:09 AM PST
by
Paine in the Neck
(Our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor)
To: cotton1706
McDemocRat acting like a liberal has done more to hurt the GOP. FU McAmnesty and the horse you rode in on. Filthy f’n DemocRat.
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posted on
02/15/2014 6:27:27 AM PST
by
VRWC For Truth
(Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
To: Coldwater Creek
Give me ONE Cruz, as opposed to a thousand McCains.That's roughly the situation we're in. We need higher standards than that.
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posted on
02/15/2014 6:28:11 AM PST
by
jiggyboy
To: cotton1706
Totalitarians have no shortage of tactics or “tools” to plunder. They can get a majority and vote for it. Thanks Ted Cruz.
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posted on
02/15/2014 6:29:28 AM PST
by
PGalt
To: cotton1706
It is not his tactics that make them angry.
It is his principles.
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posted on
02/15/2014 6:31:22 AM PST
by
MortMan
(Is a delayed shower a "stay of exablution"?)
To: iontheball
Ree Ree Ree! Kick them in the knee!
Ree Ree Rass! Kick them in the other knee!
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posted on
02/15/2014 6:38:15 AM PST
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law and does not fear the unlawful.)
To: Travis McGee
In this day and age, there are no tools available to a leader to punish a member like Senator Cruz, especially because Senator Cruz doesnt care what either the leader or the rest of his caucus thinks, said Jim Manley, a former top aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat.
The same can be said about turncoats like McCain and Flake from Az.
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posted on
02/15/2014 6:39:46 AM PST
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: Don Corleone
In this day and age, there are no tools available to a leader to punish a member like Senator Cruz, especially because Senator Cruz doesnt care what either the leader or the rest of his caucus thinks,
Thus displaying the disaster that the 17th amendment continues to be. Ted Cruz is there to represent his state and the people who elected him, not the DC club.
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posted on
02/15/2014 6:43:48 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: cotton1706
Cruz shaking up the old ‘status quo’, making these politicians accountable for votes, not allowing them to hide in the ‘herd’ ..... love it.
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posted on
02/15/2014 6:45:26 AM PST
by
Qiviut
(It's hard to be a donk if you're sane & it's hard to be a pubbie if you have any integrity.)
To: cotton1706
How dare Cruz expose the cowards for what they are!
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posted on
02/15/2014 6:47:01 AM PST
by
Sirius Lee
(All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
To: cotton1706
So frustrated was Arizona Senator John McCain with the latest, forcing fellow Republicans to take a politically risky vote on lifting the debt ceiling, that yesterday he tweeted a Wall Street Journal editorial accusing the Texas lawmaker of instigating needless drama that helps to explain why Republicans remain a minority. McQueeg is POed because he (and Flake) was exposed as the cockroach he is, as he was flushed out from under the rock. The worst place for a Senator to be is voting for cloture, then voting against the subsequent bill. The classic Kerry "I voted for it before I voted against it." Every time a Senator does that it pulls the mask back just a little bit more.
Now, citizens of AZ will be able to ask either Senator in a town hall, "Senator, why did you vote for this bad deal, then vote against it? If you didn't like the bill, then why would you vote for it in the first place?" They will, too. Despite Sarah Palin's foolishly trashing the AZ state Party for showing some guts and Censuring McQueeg, the kind of people who go to town halls will be emboldened.
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posted on
02/15/2014 6:47:29 AM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
(H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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