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After a respite, Cruz again questioning McConnell’s strategies
The Hill ^ | 04/30/18 | ALEXANDER BOLTON

Posted on 04/30/2018 11:12:41 AM PDT by conservative98

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who has been more of a team player since losing the 2016 GOP presidential primary to Donald Trump, is reemerging as an agitator in the GOP conference.

Cruz is questioning Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) strategy on the GOP's 2018 agenda, which is to steer clear of partisan bills that don’t have Democratic support.

Cruz, who is up for reelection this year and faces a spirited challenger in Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D), is leading a group of restive conservatives who want to vote on a budget resolution that would set up a special process — known as reconciliation — to allow the GOP to pass ambitious legislation, such as an ObamaCare repeal, with a simple majority.

“We have 254 days until Jan. 3, 2019. I believe we need to do everything humanly possible to deliver on the promises we made to voters and to score major substantive victories for the American people while we have majorities in both houses and a Republican president,” Cruz said last week.

“If we do that, we maximize the chances of keeping majorities in both houses because we’re enacting policies that make a real and positive difference in people’s lives,” he added.

Cruz worries the time for passing lasting legislative reforms might be limited given the widespread perception that Democrats have a good chance of winning back the House next year. Those concerns are shared by many conservatives in the House, who communicate regularly with Cruz.

Cruz gave a presentation to the GOP conference last week in an attempt to rally colleagues behind the idea of passing a budget with reconciliation instructions.

Without reconciliation, it takes 60 votes to pass controversial legislation through the Senate.

McConnell, however, shot the idea down, according to two senators.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: cruz; cubanadian; ineligible; mcconell; takebackgop; tedcruz; trump; trumpdidntsellout; trumpsoldout
“Mitch pushed back. He said, ‘I agree with where you want to go, but we have a math problem,’” one source said.

It was the first time in a while that Cruz second-guessed McConnell’s leadership in front of the entire GOP conference, although colleagues said he did it respectfully.

“We need to keep going,” he said. “We need to finish the job at ObamaCare. We need to keep simplifying the tax code and lowering taxes. We need to keep lifting regulation so we see more jobs at higher wages for working men and women.”

It’s possible Cruz’s efforts to tout an ambitious 2018 agenda is intended to spur on conservatives he’ll need to come to the polls this fall.

1 posted on 04/30/2018 11:12:42 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98


McConell: Sorry, Ted, we can't do any of that. We only have the House, the Senate and the Presidency.
2 posted on 04/30/2018 11:14:28 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98
It's clear Republicans do NOT have the Sinate Majority Leadership.
3 posted on 04/30/2018 11:22:04 AM PDT by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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Trump sold out when he signed McConnell’s budget.


4 posted on 04/30/2018 11:23:06 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: TakebackGOP

McConnell you are a sorry assed, worthless, spineless, sack of crap.

Agitate all you can Ted.


5 posted on 04/30/2018 11:28:47 AM PDT by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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To: conservative98

“Leader McConnell is not supportive enough of President Trump.”

Said no Senator ever.


6 posted on 04/30/2018 11:34:04 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: conservative98

“It’s possible Cruz’s efforts to tout an ambitious 2018 agenda is intended to spur on conservatives he’ll need to come to the polls this fall. “

Ya think?

Just like he was all hard ass in 2015.


7 posted on 04/30/2018 11:38:42 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: C210N

Republicans are outnumbered by Republican’ts.


8 posted on 04/30/2018 11:43:53 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: conservative98
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who has been more of a team player since losing the 2016 GOP presidential primary to Donald Trump,...

LMAO

Ted is headed into another election this fall. He’s a team player when it’s HIS team.

9 posted on 04/30/2018 11:48:37 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: conservative98

I believe the best possible solution is for the two of them to fight it out physically.

With flamethrowers and grenades.

In a hermetically sealed nine foot by nine foot bunker.

At the bottom of the Marianas Trench.


10 posted on 04/30/2018 11:52:05 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: conservative98

Not much mystery as to McConnell’s strategery.

Most of it is well documented in the democrat’s and Never-Trumper’s playbooks.


11 posted on 04/30/2018 11:56:55 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The art of government is to take money from one to give to another - Voltaire)
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To: conservative98

Cruz needs to do something hard and ask McConnell about the 20 ships the Chou family bought, while Elaine is Transportation Secretary.

We already heard that Chou’s father bequeathed the McConnells’ with 25 million dollars early this year.

What is going on with them, the Chou Family Machine and the Chinese wind fall?


12 posted on 04/30/2018 12:08:42 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Ed/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming, infinitum.)
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To: conservative98

Cruz has McConnell’s number, and so do we.

He isn’t spineless. He is tough and wily. He doesn’t work for us, its important to note. He has another master.


13 posted on 04/30/2018 12:14:28 PM PDT by marron
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To: conservative98

Isn’t Ted Cruz satan incarnate, spawn of some uncle/grandpa Munster, a fake American, married to a financial insider/globalist, a never-Trumper whose kids and wife despise him?

Free Republic is absolutely no place to publish anything that could possibly be construed as supportive of Ted “Lyin’ Ted” Cruz.

The Cruznadian is persona non-grata on FR.

Right?


14 posted on 04/30/2018 12:17:51 PM PDT by Theo (FReeping since 1998 ... drain the swamp.)
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To: conservative98

Go Ted! He’s right about Ditch. Ditch completely lacks principles and backbone.


15 posted on 04/30/2018 1:37:50 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: DoughtyOne
Ted is headed into another election this fall. He’s a team player when it’s HIS team.

For someone who is supposedly a Tump fan, you sure do like your Turtle more than you like your Donald

16 posted on 04/30/2018 3:44:37 PM PDT by DanZ
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