Posted on 12/13/2013 5:02:50 PM PST by Red Steel
WILL WARREN WING SCUTTLE BUDGET DEAL? - Speaker John Boehner delivered on his promise to pass a bipartisan budget bill through the House, and he’s taking plenty of blowback from conservatives for it. But the real test for the two year can-kick seems to be whether Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can tame an increasingly unruly liberal wing of his own party.
Far-left senators like Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Al Franken, D-Minn., Tom Udall, D-N.M. and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., can’t be happy about maintaining more than half of the spending caps from the 2011 debt-limit deal and making no provisions for extended welfare benefits. ...
Go nuke yourself - Republicans don’t mind squeezing Reid as he tries to corral what’s been called the “Elizabeth Warren wing” of the Democratic Party. After all, Reid just nuked filibusters on presidential nominations, so his demands for swift acquiescence sounded like laugh lines in the Red Team locker room. Among those already out: Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Tom Coburn, R-Okla., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., and Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. Sessions says he will lead a filibuster.
Reid may be able to count on moderate members like John McCain, R-Ariz., Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, but so far, they’re not saying.
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It’ll pass, after an appropriate posturing period is completed.
Senator Jeff Sessions is hot that Boehner pulled a fast one about the budget “deal” which would negate the 60 vote Senate filibuster to pass any future budget legislation.
Sessions reported about this on the Mark Levin show.
“Reid may be able to count on moderate members like John McCain, R-Ariz., Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, but so far, they’re not saying.”
I’ll say it for two of them:
-McCain will vote for it on “see what a statesman I am, MSM?” principles.
-Murkowski will vote for it, but only if she can find a way to milk some special interest crony pork for Alaska in the process.
No opinion on Collins.
“Embrace the suck.”
5.56mm
Sessions is the best person in Washington. A true man of honor.
ML on the air is 2hr delayed here.
Sessions is on now. Boner and Ryan are traitors.
Agree. He should be president.
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