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Posted on 08/03/2015 9:55:41 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Sen. Ted Cruz's public accusation that Mitch McConnell lied to fellow Senators has not gone over well among the GOP leadership. Establishment Republicans are predictably going after the Texas Senator and rebuking him for violating Senate etiquette.
Cruz made waves last week when he accused the Majority Leader on the Senate floor of telling a bald-faced lie to Republicans -- a lie that Cruz says opened the way to a vote on the Export-Import Bank, which conservative Republicans would have blocked if they had known the Majority Leader's plans. The Senate ended up voting to renew the Ex-Im Bank on Sunday evening. Cruz and other conservative Republicans have persistently fought the Ex-Im Bank, calling it a classic example of corporate welfare and congressional corruption.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was among the first to attack Sen. Cruz's comments.
"I think it was outside the realm of Senate behavior," said Sen. John McCain, who has clashed with Cruz in the past. "I would never contemplate going to the floor of the Senate and impugning the integrity of another senator. Just not something we do here. I really think it was a very wrong thing to do."
Wrong, perhaps -- unless Cruz's claim is actually true. Wouldn't a straight-up lie warrant a slight breach of genteel manners? Would not a breach of trust warrant a breach of cordiality?
Perhaps it is this stubborn politeness, after all, that has for so long kept noble reformers from upending the money-changers who rule Congress and lie in bed with lobbyists. Perhaps it is McCain's profound and unrivaled concern for niceness that keeps the Senate awash in cronyism. Perhaps it is this unwavering devotion to the status quo, which rules the hearts of so many GOP leaders, that millions of Americans voted to oust last fall. Sadly, their votes have affected little change.
McCain is not alone in his overt concern for niceness over truth. Sen. Orrin Hatch threw in his own two cents on the matter.
"Squabbling and sanctimony may be tolerated in other venues -- or perhaps on the campaign trail -- but they have no place among colleagues in the United States Senate.
I see. So Cruz was simply grandstanding, perhaps trying to catch up to Donald Trump in the presidential polls. Whatever his motives, he couldn't have been expressing righteous indignation at a misguided Senate leader who goes to bat for K Street every day.
At least Cruz remained unfazed. His response to these criticisms was short and sweet.
"I do not believe speaking the truth is anything other than in the very best tradition of the United States Senate," Cruz said to reporters.
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Ted Cruz Ping! 
"Of course we lie to scum voters and vets
to support our King and Caliph Obama.
Anyone who disagrees will get IRS attacks on their families."
BUMP the Cruzer!
Who cares what these losers say or think? They’re all liars -they lied to get elected - then threw in with obama’s agenda. Keep it coming, Cruz!
Ted Cruz Ping! Politico-speak for it's okay to lie to the voters 'cuz they're too stupid to recognize the truth.
I’ll be glad when they throw dirt on all three of them — McCain, Mitch, and Boehner.
Now I don’t wish that they die off but that seems to be the only way these GOPe thugs will go away.
They are fundamentally transforming America and need to go.
“I do not believe speaking the truth is anything other than in the very best tradition of the United States Senate,” Cruz said to reporters.”
Truth no longer matters in congress and it isn’t present anywhere in the body of Hillary Clinton or Reid in the senate. When Reid said he told a lie in the senate about Romney, his reply to his lying was, “Well, he didn’t win, did he?” He has no credibility at all.
Cruz has truth on his side because he is an expert on the constitution and his actions show he is determined to get our country back on the constitution in its dealings with our citizens and the world.
Golly, gee, “ violating Senate etiquette.” Senate etiquette is SO last century. ;-)
DITTO!
We are told to value the cultures of every turd world failed nation and violent hateful religions. Tread lightly we are told, lest we appear intolerant.
But these nations and religions have nothing in common with our American Heritage. So to tolerate them means we must disavow and disrespect our native culture and values.
There is an obvious dissonance and growing conflict between Traditional American Values and those being imported and imposed upon us.
Ted Cruz is one of the few warriors for the cause of liberty and Christianity. I thank him for his courage and vision.
so etiquette trumps truth in the US Senate??
I don’t think so!
But after McConnell took procedural steps Friday to move to a proposal to revive the Ex-Im bank, Cruz said on the Senate floor: “I cannot believe he would tell a flat-out lie.”
Ted Cruz recognizes mendacious talk...if he says McConnell lied, McConnell lied...end of story!
That’s Bull! Nothing comes before the truth,manners,Are you kidding me? Slaughtering babies,millions out of work,can’t find jobs,a lying bitch who has filled her pockets with cash from foreigners with a promise of favors when she gets crowned king,Manners Hell! Go for the jugular,
The only thing better would be, when defending himself after the sickening responses of Hatch, McCain and the other goober would be . . . “The Senate had a tradition of civility that settled these matters with finality. It was called a duel. Mr. Burr and Mr. Hamilton took their disagreement outside chambers and did what gentlemen with guts and integrity did. That’s what I’m proposing today. The question Sen. McConnell needs to ask himself is this.. . . do you feel lucky? (facing McConnell)Well, do ya punk?” “I give the remainder of my time to Sen. McConnell for his response”. And then sit down.
Three turds in the toilet
Harry Reid must have written the rules on Senate etiquette.
When Reid said he told a lie in the senate about Romney, his reply to his lying was, “Well, he didn’t win, did he?” He has no credibility at all.
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Can anyone else but me hear the evil in that comment???
And he’s in our Government and in everybody’s private business???
Think about that for a while....
Three made guys DNC snickers.
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