Posted on 12/15/2014 8:48:29 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
If the Senate were high school and there was a superlative for "least popular member," Ted Cruz would win in a walk.
The Texas Republican reaffirmed his status as the Senate's most reviled member -- among his peers -- over the weekend when he refused to allow the chamber to go out of session on Friday and return Monday to vote on the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending package. Instead, Cruz used procedural moves to force 10 straight hours of votes on Saturday as a way to protest President Obama's executive action on immigration.
Cruz ultimately forced a "point of order" vote as to whether it was constitutional for Obama to take executive action on immigration. It failed -- as, of course, Cruz knew it would. And, in the wake of that failure, he faced withering criticism not just from Democrats but also from many Republicans who dismissed his maneuvering as a stunt that allowed Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) to advance a number of judicial nominations before Democrats hand over their majority in January.
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) was particularly pointed. "While the president’s executive actions on immigration are reprehensible and deserve a strong response, I value the oath I took to support and defend the Constitution too much to exploit it for political expediency,” he said in the wake of the Cruz vote....
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Best argument for term limits when you see the most rediculous do nothing bunch on both sides.
Ted Cruz should push to get ineffectual gov’t a thing of the past.
And I don’t care what Bob Corker thinks.
I certainly don’t care what the Washington Post thinks!
It is if that’s how far your maturity and life-insight is/has developed, and there are legions of people who not only stopped there, but are busy going retrograde.
It's the only way to keep the RINO/MSM complex from choosing out candidate for us.
He’s popular with me Chris old son. And so is Mike Lee.
LOL
That's a real corker.....
Queen Shelia Jackson Lee (also from Houston) is known in Congress as the rep. most reviled by her OWN staffers (you can look it up) and she never get lambasted for it by the DC establishment press (certainly not when she's agitating on matters like Ferguson or federal recognition of Michael Jackson's passing)
“But real life isn’t high school, is it?”
Liberals treat life like a 7th grade girls club. Better wear the right color nail polish or be out of the club.
Nothing is GroupThink like liberalism.
They shop at the same stores, wear the same clothes, use the same language, eat at the same restaurants, drive the same cars, etc. None of them dare to be individuals.
Oh da poow widdle wepubwican senators down wike cwooze???
THAT’S TOO FRIGGIN BAD! It’s the CONSTITUTION STUPIDS!!!!
When I clicked on Ted’s website the first page is a poll of what should be the Republican’s first priority when they take the Senate. I will be donating right after Christmas.
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In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
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In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out
Cruz/the Nuge 2016
Ted Cruz Will Bank on the Base
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3237269/posts
Ted Cruz for President?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3236352/posts
But real life isn’t high school, is it?
Ah, but Washington DC is high school, the sequel.
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