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Sens. Cruz, Lee say they won't block deal
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Posted on 10/16/2013 9:58:14 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Sens. Cruz, Lee say they won't block deal By Mike Lillis - 10/16/13 12:38 PM ET

Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee said Wednesday that they won't try to block the bipartisan deal to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling.

"The timing of the vote will make no difference to the outcome," Cruz (R-Texas) said. "I have no intention of delaying the vote."

Cruz and Lee (R-Utah) had spearheaded the campaign to attach ObamaCare language to any new budget bills, and had pushed their colleagues to take a hard-line stance.

But the pair emerged from a meeting of Senate Republicans Wednesday afternoon to say they would let the agreement — which contains only one provision on ObamaCare — move forward.

"Some of us want to see it first — we still don't have text," Lee said. "But provided we get the text and have time t review it and everything, I suspect we'll collapse the time."

There has been speculation that the bipartisan deal might originate in the House, thereby eliminating some procedural hurdles when the bill moved to the Senate. But with Cruz and Lee withdrawing their filibuster threats, several GOP senators said the upper chamber will likely act first on the agreement.

The deal reached by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) would fund the government through Jan. 15 and raise the debt-ceiling until February. It would require income verification for subsidies under ObamaCare, but otherwise leave the helathcare law untouched.

The weeks-long fight over ObamaCare has left the GOP sharply divided and licking its wounds, after centrist Republicans warned for weeks that the battle was futile and damaging to the party.

Several Republicans left the meeting Wednesday grumbling that the conservatives in their ranks had prolonged the impasse even as Republicans were sinking in the polls.

"We left a lot on the table because we couldn't get our act together, but this is the best Mitch could do," said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who will vote for the deal. "We need to stop the bleeding, lessen the damage to the party."

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) echoed that message.

"I hope it is another 15 years at least before we have to go through this exercise again," McCain said. "We're in a hole, we have to dig out and come up with a positive agenda."


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Nevada; US: Texas; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: 113th; bendover; bho44; boehner; cavein; mikelee; rino; shutdown; tedcruz; texas; utah
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To: RIghtwardHo

There is nothing Ted Cruz can do to stop it in the Senate. Maybe postpone it for a few days but that is it. Go Ted.


21 posted on 10/16/2013 10:06:08 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: newheart
In before they get called RINOs.

No need to worry about that.

They're worse.

They're White Flag, Surrender Monkeys.

and I'm NOT referring to Senator's Cruz and Lee.

22 posted on 10/16/2013 10:06:35 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Don’t blame Cruz and Lee. They’re the only ones with any fight. Put the blame where it’s due: On the McCains and Grahams of Senate. These men are big-government Democrats, no more, no less.


23 posted on 10/16/2013 10:06:43 AM PDT by Antoninus (Sorry, gone rogue.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Yep. I don’t like we caved at all, but we only gave them a few months and got income verification for Zerocare. Now let the health care sticker shock begin.


24 posted on 10/16/2013 10:06:55 AM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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To: RIghtwardHo
What has the GOP-E accomplished?

/johnny

25 posted on 10/16/2013 10:07:01 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: kempster
So true.....I'm so thankful Cruz stood up for us and will stand.

I support him more than ever!

26 posted on 10/16/2013 10:07:24 AM PDT by Guenevere (....)
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To: Sub-Driver

I think this is disinformation. A lot of inaccurate reports (translation: lies) are coming out of the Beltway parasites and the NY liberal media.

Politico, The Hill and all the others are working overtime to ‘shape’ our views and opinions.


27 posted on 10/16/2013 10:07:38 AM PDT by Hostage (Be Breitbart!)
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To: Sub-Driver
I blame myself

I should have written an email to each one of these congressmen and to Cruz explaining to them how the media is lying as there never was a threat to default. not raising the debt limit is actually a good thing but the media lied and says the USA will default if the debt ceiling is not raised. manufactured fake crisis by the media

28 posted on 10/16/2013 10:08:06 AM PDT by Democrat_media (IRS rigged election for Obama and democrats by shutting down tea party)
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To: Sub-Driver; JRandomFreeper; stephenjohnbanker; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; Gilbo_3; Impy; NFHale; ..
RE :”Sens. Cruz, Lee say they won't block (Senate end shutdown/pass debt limit extension) deal”

No surprise here. follow and see how close I was:

Boehner's Shutdown End-game play (you won't like it) SOL of course | 10/15/2013 | sickoflibs

29 posted on 10/16/2013 10:08:11 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
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To: Sub-Driver

Not sure they can block it.


30 posted on 10/16/2013 10:08:29 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: RIghtwardHo

DU thanks you for your useless opinion.


31 posted on 10/16/2013 10:08:45 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: RIghtwardHo

LOL


32 posted on 10/16/2013 10:08:58 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
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To: IamConservative
'IMO, this puts the spotlight glaringly on healthcare.gov and Obamacare in general.'

Sure, but that would have already been the headline 3 weeks now if others things weren't in the news.

So now all the stories will be about getting back to work, fixing the backlog, mowing yards in parks, cleanup, etc.

If your gonna bring up the treat and shutdown .gov, you do it. You don't fold. These guys have done that, and now the White House is bringing up Amnesty again. Joy.

33 posted on 10/16/2013 10:09:02 AM PDT by Theoria
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To: Sub-Driver; onyx
Republicans dependable as a clock on two things.

1 To cave to the dems everytime.

2. To throw there own overboard at the first sign of trouble.

To all of you blaming Ted Cruz, he has done is best. It will be WE who save it. He cannot save it by himself or should he. McConnell and the gop is to blame for caving. Not Cruz.

34 posted on 10/16/2013 10:09:04 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: Sub-Driver
McCain said. "We're in a hole, we have to dig out and come up with a positive agenda."

How exactly do you "dig out" from a hole? Moron.

35 posted on 10/16/2013 10:09:33 AM PDT by safeasthebanks ("The most rewarding part, was when he gave me my money!" - Dr. Nick)
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To: RIghtwardHo

Newbie please. Go back to Huff Post and piss off with your agitating.


36 posted on 10/16/2013 10:09:42 AM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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To: sickoflibs
Not very close. The extensions are for January and February. The dems didn't get much. We get to do this again then.

/johnny

37 posted on 10/16/2013 10:10:01 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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RightwardHo is a stool pigeon of the left. Get this filth off of Free Republic.


38 posted on 10/16/2013 10:12:59 AM PDT by InsidiousMongo
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To: Sub-Driver
From a thread I posted...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3079701/posts

Aside for Senators Mike Lee and Ted Cruz, nobody else paid more than lip service to fighting Obamacare. Worse, the overwhelming majority of Republicans in the Senate sabotaged the effort. One after another, they would go on TV and trash House Republicans and echo Harry Reid’s talking points. Reid and Obama just sat back and let Senate Republicans blow up their colleagues. Then in the eleventh hour, instead of at least demanding delay of the individual mandate (which McConnell touted months ago as the alternative to defund), McConnell gave Harry Reid everything he wanted.

39 posted on 10/16/2013 10:13:07 AM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: Sub-Driver; SoConPubbie

FYI:

Rush Limbaugh is going to play that famous clip wherein Alan Dershowitz describes Ted Cruz as one of the smartest and the most principled law students to EVER have gone through Harvard.


40 posted on 10/16/2013 10:13:33 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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