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Posted on 07/25/2015 6:15:24 PM PDT by Isara
Senator Ted Cruz, the sometimes-incendiary Texan running for the Republican presidential nomination, took to the Senate floor on Friday to call his party’s majority leader a liar in an extraordinary public airing of grievance.
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Far from backing down, Mr. Cruz joined the conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh on Friday afternoon, basking in Mr. Limbaugh’s praise for a “direct hit” on leadership like none he could remember.
“It’s not a good day when the majority leader is willing to lie to the Senate,” Mr. Cruz told Mr. Limbaugh.
Tea Party groups, the Heritage Foundation’s political arm, and Charles G. and David H. Koch’s Freedom Partners rushed to Mr. Cruz’s defense.
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Businesses — powered by some of the nation’s biggest corporations, like Boeing, General Electric and Caterpillar — have been pressing to reopen it, arguing that the conservative war on the agency is costing American jobs in the service of a purely ideological fight. On the other side of the money fight, Delta Air Lines, the Kochs, Club for Growth and the Heritage Foundation are fueling the opposition.
Mr. Cruz framed the fight as one pitting “the Washington cartel of the lobbyists on K Street, or the big money and big corporations,” against the American taxpayer.
Money has in fact sloshed through both sides of the fight. Among Republican presidential candidates, only Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, where Boeing operations benefit from Export-Import Bank financing, supports restoring the agency.
Mr. McConnell, in allowing a vote Sunday afternoon to reopen the bank, was careful to say he personally opposed it. At the same time, he offered conservatives a compromise in the form of a separate amendment to the highway bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Mr. Cruz called that “an empty show vote.”...
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The attack was because McConnell LIED TO CRUZ AND ALL OF THE REPUBS IN THE SENATE.
The NYT is just trying to stir the pot a little more.
Clash over an agency my @$$....
Coup in the making.
Me thinks that murdoch has told FOX not to help Cruz in any way.
Weisman & the NYT think they can condemn Ted Cruz to the outer darkness with just a wave of their manicured hands & an accusatory mention of Rush Limbaugh.
Fuggedaboudit!
CRUZ or lose!
Ted Cruz Ping!
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