Posted on 12/04/2015 12:21:04 PM PST by springwater13
With the Iowa caucuses less than two months away, Ted Cruz seemed to have an epiphany Thursday night on one of the state's — and agricultural lobby's — biggest issues in Congress.
Cruz (R-Texas) initially voted with fiscal hardliners to retain $3 billion in crop insurance cuts that were made as part of a budget deal approved in October. After a visit to the Senate cloakroom, Cruz returned and flipped his vote to side with farming interests, which ultimately prevailed. The crop insurance votes were part of a debate on a highway bill, which Cruz opposed on a final vote, calling it fiscally irresponsible.
Presidential rival and Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) also joined the popular effort to protect the restoration of the crop insurance money but voted against the final bill. After taking several minutes deliberating whether to side with farmers, Rubio drew sarcastic applause from his colleagues during the draining seven-hour voting slog on Thursday night. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), also running for president, voted for the crop insurance funding and the overall highway bill.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Those closest to the king are the most equal.
Disappointing.
Imagine that. ...
Name three bills a famous Senator had plenty of excuses for.
AFAIK, he's opposed to ethanol subsidies which is usually suicide in IA, so maybe there's something else going on.
Everyone is beholding to someone...or almost everyone.
I wouldn’t be so sure opposing the subsidies are suicide in Iowa. After all, they can’t even pass a statewide ethanol mandate in Iowa.
This is farm insurance and is something I haven’t really paid any attention to.
Still better than those who get on their knees for ethanol and wind subsidies.
We need an explanation.
Another positive for Trump. He’s not in any position where he is able to sell-out.
That’s how the system works. Only term limits can eliminate the single most corrupting influence of our entire political system:
THE RE-ELECTION OF CAREER POLITICIANS.
If someone as conservative as Ted Cruz has to wallow in the pigsty, that illustrates how imperative the need for term limits has become. Since Washington will never impose limits on itself, an Article V. Convention of States is the only hope we have at saving our country and restoring the Constitution.
The keyword here is POLITICO so take this with a grain of salt.
So Politico, a leftist progressive rag, publishes a smear piece on Ted Cruz, innuendoing that Cruz is a slimy flip-flopper.
And FReepers are too eager to lap up Politico’s vomit.
FReepers, I implore you to slow down and ALWAYS consider the source of news like this. Politico is the enemy. By default, don’t trust their words or their tone.
One of the Liberty Amendments need to require a one-day national primary with universal ballot access rules. That way very narrow provincial interests in a couple of small states will not rule the day.
Too much inside baseball for me to figure out.
Those opposed to Cruz, typically Trump fans, don’t care what the publication is. If an article or column tarnishes Cruz, they’ll jump all over it like a gaggle of concern trolls ...
I’d be happy with term limits, balanced budget amendment and repeal of the 17th Amendment. The States need to take more power back from the Washington. Maybe Levin’s idea for reforming the judiciary would work too.
Crop insurance takes the place of the disaster payments that Congress would gin up following bad crop years. This would take a few months and then there was a process to qualify for them. Crop insurance is subsidized partially, but farmers pay for the insurance and then if they suffer crop losses, they receive a payment for a portion of the crop. Farmers are not required to buy crop insurance (unlike Obamacare)and the yields can increase or decrease on a 10 year average.
I’m a Trump guy, but also a Cruz fan. Certainly not a POLUTICO fan.
I wont say that I do.
But many Cruz people on FR are happy to use similar sources to go after Trump and crow about how wonderful it is to be able to vote for the “consistent conservative”, all the while posting their polka dot charts.
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