Posted on 12/14/2014 6:10:42 AM PST by cotton1706
Noteworthy that Portman voted with the Good Guys.
While Cruz was speaking against the bill (I agree with his position) and against the illegal amnesty (I agree with his position), Reid was taking the opportunity to tee up a couple of dozen Obama nominees to get voted on Monday morning. If Cruz had let the Senate be in recess until Monday morning, all of the debate (if that's what you can call it) and maneuvering on the omnibus spending monstrosity would have been done then. Instead, Cruz had the votes Saturday night and LOST each of them. Now Harry Reid will use the Monday morning session to give lifetime appointments to a bunch of Obama judges and confirm some other controversial appointees. He might have been able to do that on Monday afternoon, but probably not as many since all the Demoncrat senators would want to go home.
I would say Cruz won the battle but lost the war, but he didn't even win the battle. He didn't even get a "moral" victory by putting everyone on record - the bill passed and Obama is going to get more wacko liberals in office. Mr. Cruz needs to learn the rules of the Senate before he decides he is ready to run for president. That's why we need a governor to run on the Republican side - they usually understand the difference between having a legislative strategy and just saying anything they want.
Well said.
IMHO he is going to have a hard time holding his seat in 2016.
Thank God Roberts voted no.
People can say what they will about Freddie. But you gotta admit, the dude could strut ;)
Both Kansas senators exhibited they have a spine.
“Oh, but there was an endgame...to get every senator, especially the republicans, on the record.”
Yep, and how many of the GOP-e candidates ran on repealing Obamacare? Now they fully funded it for another year!
Lying bastiges!
Cochran (R-MS) voted NAY?
I,m surprised that Thune supported Cruz.
WI has a recall provision; but the U.S. Senate and House recognize no recall petitions from any state.
Like Orrin Grant Hatch of UT, Enzi was initially seen upon his election to the Senate and a firm, unyielding conservatives. Must have never been true
Wish I could say the same but my Pa clown senators toed the McConnell/Reid uni-party line.
If we get the WH again, prez should just declare that 0bama’s nominees are declared void. End. Should not enforce any 0bamacare provision. Do not enforce and EPA reg. Do not enforce any Dept of Ed. edicts. Just. Stop. Enforcing.
The whole prosecutorial discretion thing is going to make HUGE swings depending on who is president... until the legislative branch takes back their powers.
“Noteworthy that Portman voted with the Good Guys.”
Yeah, I’m sure his 2016 election and possibly the vice-presidency played a role.
Reid wouldn’t have put through the nominations because... he’s a nice guy?
LOL!
Every one of those nominations would have gone through anyway.
Cruz and Lee lost nothing.
The gain was long-term: having supporters of the amnesty on record.
This ‘cromnibus’ has made a lot of Republicans take votes their constituents didn’t like, Cruz and Lee made at least some Dems make a vote their constituents don’t like.
“While Cruz was speaking against the bill (I agree with his position) and against the illegal amnesty (I agree with his position), Reid was taking the opportunity to tee up a couple of dozen Obama nominees to get voted on Monday morning.”
You’re buying into the talking point. Reid was going to do that anyway, and everybody knew it. Reid was not going to let those nominees just expire while he had the power to act on them. He’s a militant leftist.
And something else— the FIRST actual budget in how many years? Because prior years— the dems in Senate and the House majority would not ever pass an OBAMA budget as their own.
So this is exposing the lying shiite of Reid and Co., who never proposed a budget of their own to answer obamas’/
This is some inside baseball crap. Cruz exposed the RINOS, the dems who said yes were a mix of outgoing and staying dems, much reduced of course. Nice little piece of faux footwork on McConnell’s and Boehner’s part.
Roils RINOs but not true Republicans.
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