You mean-old right-wing extremists should have cut to the chase and supported me. I would have given you the world, baby! Pure socialism - not the drip-drip crap that your boy McConnell is doing!
Posted on 07/26/2015 1:53:15 PM PDT by jimbo123
In a pair of losses for conservatives, the Senate voted overwhelmingly Sunday to revive the Export-Import Bank while failing to overcome a filibuster of an attempt to repeal Obamacare — with more fireworks to come.
The rare Sunday votes set the stage for the Senate to send a long-term highway bill tied to the Ex-Im Bank to the House later this week, but not before facing other gambits by conservatives, including a procedural vote forced by Sen. Ted Cruz regarding the Iran deal and an effort to deploy a maneuver akin to the “nuclear option.”
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WTF?!
Mitch McConnell can bite me.
Well at least Congress is consistent. You can depend on them to vote for whatever’s bad for America.
The GOP Senate only serves their masters. And it is not We The People.
The Republicans are telling everyone, Republicans included, “Please never vote for us, ever again. We DO NOT WANT anyone’s vote.”
GOP = Giving Out Pork. It is just as much the party of big government as the Democrats are.
Corrupt traitors!!
Fedzilla
Oh, he did.
The Republicans are telling everyone, Republicans included, “Please never vote for us, ever again.
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So far that is working. Who would vote for the GOP backstabbers?
Updated 3:35 p.m. | The Senate opened Sunday with a reading by the Senate President Pro Tempore Orrin G. Hatch of the Senate’s rules of decorum, in an apparent rebuke of Sen. Ted Cruz calling Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a liar on Friday. And things got more personal from there.
Shortly thereafter, McConnell defended his actions setting up a vote to revive the Export-Import Bank, even though he opposes it — and other top Republicans rebuked Cruz on the floor even as Cruz came to the floor to defend his comments in an extraordinary speech of his own.
Then a back and forth between Hatch, Cruz and Cruz’s senior Texas colleague, Majority Whip John Cornyn, made for an extraordinary sequence.
Hatch went on at length about senators treating each other with respect and not impugning their integrity and maintaining decorum and civility, and, while not specifically calling out Cruz, said too much of what has happened on the Senate floor has been about fundraising and political grandstanding.
“Most egregiously, Mr. President, the Senate floor has even become a place where Senators have singled out colleagues by name to attack them in personal terms and to impugn their character—in blatant disregard of Senate rules, which plainly prohibit such conduct,” Hatch said.
Cruz immediately after Hatch said he agreed with his call for decorum and civility. But, he said, “speaking the truth” is “entirely consistent with civility.”
Cruz’s presidential campaign has sent out a fundraising email from Cruz about the exchange saying he was “betrayed” by the majority leader and urging people to send him a donation.
Later, Cornyn said Cruz was mistaken about McConnell, and implied the majority leader was simply bowing to the will of the Senate, where a clear supermajority backs the Ex-Im Bank. And he warned that Cruz’s effort to overturn the ruling of the chair and get his own amendment made in order would cause chaos and destroy Republicans’ ability to control the schedule.
McConnell himself strongly defended his decision to grease the skids for adding the Ex-Im Bank to the highway bill.
Is there a procedure for removing the Senate Majority leader from his leadership position?
You mean-old right-wing extremists should have cut to the chase and supported me. I would have given you the world, baby! Pure socialism - not the drip-drip crap that your boy McConnell is doing!
Not one of them.
Ever again.
This country can effing rot.
Note to Georgia 2016 candidate.
Not getting my vote.
I will vote against you!
Well, it wasn’t the middle of the night for this McConnell-led crime to be committed. Shame on you voters in KY, for seeding this disgusting liar to represent you.
I learned my lesson
A Pyrrhic victory. The Export/Import Bank is a small factor, compared to virtually everything else they deal with there.
What REALLY MATTERS is that they are pushing conservatives more and more into Trump’s hands (and Cruz, to a lesser extent) with these stunts. Yes, they win that vote, but sorry, they just added another 5 to 10 points to Trump’s level of support.
Roll call votes.
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