Posted on 07/26/2015 3:57:42 PM PDT by Din Maker
As the Senate met for a rare Sunday session, Sens. Orrin Hatch of Utah, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and John Cornyn of Texas each rose to counter a stunning floor speech Cruz gave on Friday accusing McConnell, R-Ky., of lying.
None of them mentioned Cruz by name but the target of their remarks could not have been clearer. The drama came as the Senate defeated a procedural vote to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law and took a step toward reviving the federal Export-Import Bank, both amendments on a must-pass highway bill.
"Squabbling and sanctimony may be tolerated in other venues and perhaps on the campaign trail, but they have no place among colleagues in the United States Senate," said Hatch, the Senate's president pro tempore. Cruz is running for president.
"The Senate floor has even become a place where senators have singled out colleagues by name to attack them in personal terms, to impugn their character, in blatant disregard for Senate rules," Hatch said. "Such misuses of the Senate floor must not be tolerated."
After Hatch spoke, Cruz rose to defend himself for making the accusation that McConnell had lied when he denied striking a deal to allow the vote to revive the Export-Import Bank.
He said he agreed with Hatch's calls for civility but declared, "Speaking the truth about actions is entirely consistent with civility."
And far from backing down, Cruz reiterated his complaint about McConnell. "My saying so may be uncomfortable but it is a simple fact, entirely consistent with decorum, and no member of this body has disputed that promise was made and that promise was broken."
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I wish these people held the rules of the Constitution in such high regard.
Maybe it’s time to send Tea Bags again .. just to remind them we have not gone away and their childish grandstanding has not gone unnoticed.
Those three have been worthless for decades.
There are three people that need to go.
I’d love to see an entity target these and others that defeat our cause.
I’d donate to it.
Note to Senator Hatch etal :
You might have given yourself a little cred
if you made a little effort to stand up to
Harry Reid’s nonsense.....EVER!
I think it’s time to drown them in Tea Bags.
Senior GOP leader condone lying to their constituents.
There is no reason on earth to bother voting for people like this. We elected a couple of them in GA. We’d be better off with ISIS insurgents; at least the low-information crowd would know where they stand.
He was right, they know it, and it annoys tehm.
Go Cruz!
when there's danger all around?
I agree; Yahoo News sucks! And, yes, they are liberal. But, they are like The Enquirer or The Globe; they print stuff other news agencies won’t touch. They just have more cred than those yellow rags. This time, however, it burned them in the butt. Cruz gently and intelligently kicked butt and took names.
One thing I noticed about Yahoo, is that the comments are overwhelmingly conservative in general.
“The Senate floor has even become a place where senators have singled out colleagues by name to attack them in personal terms, to impugn their character, in blatant disregard for Senate rules,” Hatch said. “Such misuses of the Senate floor must not be tolerated.”
Yeah, and at one time the British and Americans used to line up and slaughter each other according to the rules of the day, until a few enlightened Generals decided to chuck those rules and fight Gorilla Warfare style. And look where it got us. Good for Ted. Don’t play by the rules and take it to them!
The emperor’s praetorian guards.
“Lifeboats are unnecessary, and it is insulting to your betters to even suggest their use. After all, the Republican Titanic is unsinkable, we know beyond any doubt.”
The most outspoken are probably the most corrupt with lobbyist dough.
If it came out of Orrin Hatch’s pie-hole, you know it’s garbage.
HOW DARE THE YOUNG UPSTART CRITICISE THE REPUBLICAN MONARCHS!
He needs to know his place.
Good for Cruz for he was brave enough to tell them to f__k Off and kiss his ass.
So far, no one else had the cajones to do it.
“Three Senators out of 100 rebuked Cruz.”
Thank you for pointing that out.
I’m confident Cruz can handle whatever they fling at him. But it still angers me that what they did was rebuke Cruz under some stupid senate rule that’s obviously been placed there in order to keep honest senators in line and protect liars like McConnell and Reid from being exposed as what they are.
I’d like to see someone stand up and rebuke them for defending the liar McConnell with a straight face.
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