Cruz is a reckless loose cannon. Bring it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3534079/posts?page=62#62
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3534079/posts?page=64#64
I read that this morning elsewhere but the GOP are too chicken to use any tactic that might actually benefit We The People and cave to the screaming and screeching of the Left that they are bastardizing the legislative process. Watch & See.
And YES I am still a fan of Ted Cruz even if it isn’t a popular thing to do around here. It was a brutal race. Politics is pretty much a blood-sport. We engage, we move on, we move forward to win the war not just the battle.
Anyone who thinks Turtle McGurtle and the Senate RINO contingent (which is most of them) would go along with this plan — brilliant though it may be — is smoking funny cigarettes.
The republican leadership in the Senate twist themselves into pretzels out of fear of what the democrats might do in the future. Fear not, for the democrats will use any trick available to them. Without hesitation. Therefore, Senate republicans should change the rules so that any matter before them, unless explicitly prohibited by the Constitution, needs only a simple majority to pass. It really is just that simple.
Two things:
1. It’s still blowing up the rules and that means payback will be a b!tch if the Dems regain control
2. They won’t do it. Republicans never take risks like this to get things done, only Democrats do. Show me one example to the contrary.
The sixty vote requirement is not in the Constitution. It’s just a Senate rule. A rule that McConnell refuses to question.
Go Cruz! I’m glad he wasn’t the candidate, because he would never have been elected, but maybe he can do some things for Trump that Trump doesn’t know how to do.
Ryan is looking at what is, in his mind, “possible.” And it’s true that Bambi got a lot of states to buy it in such a way that it would be very difficult for them to get out of it, which is why their congresscritters might not vote for any change. But Cruz is going at it with a whole different mindset, and I think that’s a good thing.
“Being similar to 2013’s filibuster reform, it runs the risk of “fundamentally altering the way Congress works.”
Gee, how about that! We NEED to FUNDAMENTALLY ALTER the way Congress works, so that stuff we NEED to have done there actually does get done.