Senate GOP Leaders Want To Put Ted Cruz In A Time Out

The Huffington Post's Politics ^ | July 26, 2015 | Laura Barron-Lopez, congressional reporter

[MarMema]

All they need to do is read their Facebook pages. Pages and pages of comments supporting Cruz and lambasting them.

[Hostage]

You think they read them? And if they do, you think they care?

[Hostage]

I just looked at their FB pages. I don’t think they look at them or manage them. I think it’s a staffer because the page timelines are marked by big photos and headlines on some pet issue of the politician and then below only a few messages show up and you are right they are 100% against the liberal agenda of the RINO.

But I seriously don’t think the politicians read them and if they get a report from the staffer that maintains the FB page, the negative comments are probably referred to as from “the crazies” as McCain likes to refer to the American people.

[MarMema]

So they are elitist and don’t care what we think.
A man like Ted Cruz comes along only a few times in life. I pray he becomes our president. America can
be great again but we need a lot of help.

[Taxman]

That will probably work to Trump’s advantage.

I’d wager that more of the low information voter crowd reads the Entertainment section than the Politics section.

[rbg81]

It goes beyond Constitutional duties. One could probably fulfill those by simply showing up and voting “PRESENT”. My issue is that every time I turn around, I see a story about Ted Cruz sponsoring some bill. Well and good. But there has to be some possibility of getting those bills passed (see below—Cruz only has had one of his bills become law).

I don’t like McConnell either, but Cruz seems intent on pi$$ing people off. That is not the way to get things accomplished. It is the way to find yourself isolated. At some point, if you hit a brick wall, you need to reassess your approach.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/mar/29/dana-bash/how-many-bills-has-ted-cruz-passed-senate/

[smalltownslick]

“Leaders” and “leadership” need to always be in quotes!

[SoConPubbie]

No it does not.

Furthermore, what do you expect Ted Cruz to do, wave his magic wand and make McConnell and the rest of the GOP-E traitors to become conservative?

The only other option that Ted Cruz has is to compromise on his conservative principles in order to get a bill passed. That's not what his constituents sent him to Washington to do.

Ted Cruz goes above and beyond the call of duty fighting for conservative principles within the constitutionally defined boundaries of his job. That should be enough for you and any rational thinking conservative.

[SoConPubbie]

It goes beyond Constitutional duties. One could probably fulfill those by simply showing up and voting “PRESENT”. My issue is that every time I turn around, I see a story about Ted Cruz sponsoring some bill. Well and good. But there has to be some possibility of getting

No it does not.

Furthermore, what do you expect Ted Cruz to do, wave his magic wand and make McConnell and the rest of the GOP-E traitors to become conservative?

The only other option that Ted Cruz has is to compromise on his conservative principles in order to get a bill passed. That's not what his constituents sent him to Washington to do.

Ted Cruz goes above and beyond the call of duty fighting for conservative principles within the constitutionally defined boundaries of his job. That should be enough for you and any rational thinking conservative.

[SoConPubbie]

I don’t like McConnell either, but Cruz seems intent on pi$$ing people off. That is not the way to get things accomplished.

That's exactly what I want my Senator to do. And Ted Cruz is pissing off ALL of the right people (i.e. NOT HIS CONSTITUENTS.)

Your approach of not pissing people off is why we now have the Uni-party.

[Islander2]

Thanks for the post. In fact it looks like Cruz, Lee, Sessions and one or two more R’s are willing to buck the wussie McConnell.
I think it is high time we name names of those are always forcing this Crony Capitalism and GOPe crap down our throats and telling us we need to swallow their “medicine”,