Retire these GOP/e B@$@$T$; don't show any
respect for their previous actions..deeds.
Posted on 09/24/2013 11:50:41 AM PDT by cotton1706
As legislators squabble over defunding Obamacare in a government funding bill, the top two Republican senators find themselves in the crosshairs, not of a Democratic group, but of a conservative group.
Senate Conservatives Fund has declared Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn “turncoats,” after both said they would not support a filibuster by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to prevent a vote on the House bill that funds the government while defunding Obamacare, a move Cruz hopes will prevent Democrats from amending the bill to fund the health-care law.
On Tuesday, McConnell said he supported the House bill, which would fund the government through Dec. 15 while removing funding for the health-care law. But he said he would not support Cruz’s plan to filibuster it.
“I just don’t happen to think filibustering a bill that defunds Obamacare is the best route to defunding Obamacare,” he said. “All it does is shut down the government and keep Obamacare funded. And none of us want that.”
Politico reported that Cornyn also will not support the bill.
“Sen. Cornyn will not block a bill that defunds Obamacare,” a spokeswoman said.
McConnell and Cornyn’s statements all but ensure that Democrats will have the votes necessary to overcome Cruz’s filibuster, after which, the Democratic majority in the Senate can pass a bill that funds the government and Obamacare.
That, according to an email Senate Conservatives Fund sent to supporters, amounts to “the ultimate betrayal.”
“Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn have surrendered to Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and the Democrats. More importantly, they have surrendered to Obamacare — the biggest job killer in America,” the email reads.
Senate Conservatives Fund could create bigger problems for Cornyn and McConnell if they were to provide monetary support to primary opponents challenging the two senators for their seats next year.
The group is already running a poll of its supporters to decide whether or not to endorse Matt Bevin, the businessman challenging McConnell in the Kentucky Senate race primary, and executive director Matt Hoskins said earlier this year that they were open to supporting Bevin.
Cornyn has not yet drawn a viable primary challenger, but there are a couple names floating around, including Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett and Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert.
In response to the attack, a Republican aide pointed out that Heritage Foundation president and former Sen. Jim DeMint, who founded Senate Conservatives Fund, voted for the 2011 government funding bill that funded the healthcare law. DeMint is no longer affiliated with Senate Conservatives Fund.
“Only a group like the Senate Conservative Fund could turn an issue where every Republican agrees into a way to pit conservatives against each other and let Barack Obama off the hook,” said McConnell campaign spokeswoman Allison Moore. “If they used half the money they spent attacking Republicans over the last month to target the five Democrats we need to defund Obamacare, we would be in a very different place.”
Never forget Linda and Mr. Plaid Alexander.
Is that price worth it?
Not if you are OK with voting for Christie in 2016.
“We have to find a way to end the war in the Republican Party. This has been going on for seven years”
It’s been going on a hell of a lot longer than that! Read Phyllis Schlafley’s book “A Choice Not an Echo”
The old guard, go-along, republicans have always hated the conservative wing. They prferred Dewey over Taft, Eisenhower over Taft, Nixon over Goldwater, Rockefeller or Scranton over Goldwater, Nixon or Rockefeller over Reagan, Ford over Reagan, Bush over Reagan. And we haven’t really had a standard-bearer since Reagan. We had George Bush, Bob Dole, George Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney.
And that’s just at the presidential level.
I'm tired of it. The war within the Republican Party is turning the country blue and deprived me of a Republican Governor and Senator that would have made things a lot better here. We wouldn't be recalling Dims because the bad legislation would never have been signed. Sure, we won the recalls but that stuff is still on the books.
Just because the wings of the party disagree over a few things, we agree about a lot more. Look at what we accomplished in the Reagan/Bush years. But the rivalry became a civil war around 2006 and we haven’t won a Presidential or Senate election since. There are five Senate seats that would be Republican today but for weak, unelectable candidates foisted on us by the civil warriors. Enough. It’s the Democrats who are the enemy.
I, for one, plan to contribute to campaigns to unseat Messrs. McConnell and Cornyn
They should be down on the floor helping Cruz with the filibuster
As I compose this, I’m watching Ted Cruz as he filibusters to halt the disaster called Obamacare. I hope you will watch it as well.
If he has used it once, he’s used the phrase “...we no longer listen to the people, our constituents...” over a hundred times. And he’s right...they don’t. And the fact is, THEY NO LONGER NEED TO.
I’ve sent my little rant on this topic before but Ted’s honest comment compels me to do so again.
Dick Bachert
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WHY THE POLITICAL RULING CLASS NO LONGER LISTENS TO US!
Among others, Thomas Jefferson warned that the financial disaster we now face would be but one of many problems paper money would visit upon us if we allowed our “leaders” to remove the backing from the currency, to wit:
“When the servants if the people are paid with something other than that which the people themselves have produced (i.e. the real, tangible products of their labors or some fixed and real medium of that exchange), the roles of master and servant will be reversed.”
It was believed by Roger Sherman and a majority of those at the Constitutional Convention that un-backed currency would so damage the fabric of the nation that they ATTEMPTED to prohibit it with these few words at Article 1, Section 10, requiring the states to enforce the prohibition: “No State shall…make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts;”
If the people and their states grew inattentive to this matter (and they have!), Jefferson also saw this problem ahead:
In a letter to John Taylor in 1816, he wrote, “And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
We have been “…swindling futurity…” for a long time and this is now where we find ourselves. If the government, through its banker masters at the Federal Reserve, can create “money” from thin air, they certainly don’t need ours every April 15th. That annual sheep shearing is simply an attempt to vacuum enough of the excess paper from the system to keep the rest of us from catching on to the biggest theft ring in the history of man. They have now created so much that their attempt is failing and failing badly to a point where all but the dullest among us (Obama voters and his growing cadres of personal and corporate welfare beneficiaries) are starting to “get it.”
If you understood that last paragraph, you can now make the small leap to an understanding as to why the “progressive” utopian welfare state hacks in Washington don’t give a damn WHAT you think. Their power to create all the “money” they need to fuel their infernal machine and fill the gaping maws of enough of those hoards of welfare constituents to assure their perpetual re-election means that — ready — THEY NO LONGER NEED YOU! They have become, as Mr. Jefferson predicted, our MASTERS.
That they are taking down a nation and a system that has provided more wealth, safety and abundance to more people than any other in history matters not to them. Failing to grasp the lesson of the French Revolution, they believe themselves to be above the impending disaster.
We’re running out of time to get this increasingly rapacious beast back into the cage from which we have carelessly allowed it to escape.
Without a budget, the House and Senate cannot proceed to reconciliation conference committees to work out the differences between the two chambers.
Everyone has gotten lazy and cozy with the new irregular process of passing continuing funding resolutions to keep the government going. The CR's are now used as weapons to bash the other side.
Call on McConnell and Cornyn to stop being parties to this and do their constitutional duty to pass a budget so that we can return to proper legislative order!
-PJ
“I hope you will watch it as well.”
I am watching!
I just emailed him about my disappointment in him not standing up with Senator Cruz. I’m sure he really cares.
There was a vote on a budget but it never got to conference with the House. Cruz knew Reid’s game and wanted to add a provision that no taxes could be increased and no increase of the debt ceiling could come out of the conference with the budget.
Reid would not allow that, so we still haven’t had a budget. And the democrats are very happy about that, because we still have this continuing resolution nonsense, we still have the whole bulk of the government being voted on in one vote, and we’ll likely still get an increase in the debt ceiling.
But...they’ll have to do all of this in the open, because Cruz is forcing it.
You make a very good point..however we are tired of Republican elites pissing on our boots and telling us its raining.
Certainly conservatives can argue over points but an all out cave in to RATS is unacceptable.
Most of us would like a united front but until the GOPe changes I dont see it...
Of course they are turncoats. They have always been turncoats. Interested in protecting their position and power no matter what.
Well, I’ve begun spreading the word about Erick Wyatt as the alternative to Cornyn. Hope this debate causes his support to snowball and roll right over Cornyn next year.
I did not vote for Obama but I am done holding my nose and voting for losers like McCain and Romney. I will not vote for Obama’s buddy Christie or any liberal just because they call themselves a Republican any more.
Well if I were in Texas I would vote for Wyatt over Cornyn and if Cornyn still got the nomination, I would either stay home or vote for the democrat. That sounds shocking I know but he needs to be removed from a position of power. And the way to remove these people from power is to vote for their opponents or stay home.
Last November I left my ballot blank for the office of senate and thousands like me did the same and Scott Brown is now out of office.
“’m not a Christie guy but I sure as hell would vote for him over Hillary. I would rather get 80% of what I want versus 0%. “
How do you get 8-% with Chtistie?? He is pro gun confiscation, pro Unions, pro Abortion, pro big G’ment
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