Posted on 04/14/2016 6:48:20 PM PDT by SubMareener
Calgary Ted Cruz was humiliated on the floor of the U.S. Senate twice on Monday night, according to a report in Politico. Months of Cruz’s criticisms of his Republican colleagues is now reaping some nasty rewards for the Junior Senator from Canada. During a discussion of continuing funding for the government, Cruz tried to interrupt the proceedings with a roll call vote. The usually polite decorum on the floor of the U.S. Senate quickly turned negative as even Cruz’s fellow Republicans refused to grant him what’s called a “sufficient second” that would have allowed him to briefly call for the vote. Failing to be recognized for a sufficient second, Cruz attempted to interrupt to call for a voice vote and got a kind of voice vote he was not expecting - a loud chorus of “no’s” from his colleagues. Cruz was fuming after the second repudiation. It was an “unprecedented trick,” said Cruz. However insiders see this as indicative of a combination of Cruz’s declining chances in his presidential nomination run combined with his colleagues rising anger at what they see as Cruz’s ongoing attempts to further his own political aspirations at their expense. Under Senate rules, Cruz had already been given an hour to speak on Monday night, but was not granted additional time. Colleagues complain that Cruz has an almost Messianic view of his self-importance to both the Senate and the rest of the world. After being denied additional time, Cruz fumed from the Senate floor: “The Democrats are objecting to my speaking further. And both the Democrats and Republican leadership are objecting to the American people speaking further.” How much speaking does one Junior Senator need? Cruz’s calls for roll call votes are seen as mere tricks to get his colleagues on the record for anything with which he disagrees. His speech on Monday was filled with venom for Republican leaders and even praising of Democrats as being more resolute then the GOP. As Politico put it: “Cruz also personally lambasted McConnell and his deputies for denying a roll call vote that would have failed anyway, arguing that results are rigged in the Senate and that conservatives have no influence anymore.” Interestingly, campaign reporters have noticed of late that Donald Trump - who Cruz frequently brands as a Democrat - seems to poll best in THE most traditionally Republican areas – the South and more rural areas; where Cruz seems to poll very well in typically deep blue precincts such as the urban centers. I’m Still reporting from Washington. Good day
Yep.
So which is it, is Cruz GOPe or is he a thorn in their side? You can’t have it both ways.
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Sure I can! Ted is a line jumper in the GOPee. That is why they don’t like him. It’s personal, not political.
Well at least you’ve stated a clear demarcation with reality. Arguing both sides, despite the clear conflict.
This is why FRUMPSTERS look silly.
It can be both. The GOP machine has it out for Cruz. They are using him to get at Trump. Once they've accomplished their goal, they'll toss Cruz aside like a dirty rag and turn on him. It won't be pretty. Of course, there will be crocodile tears from McConnell on how such a "talented young man's career was wasted" - blah blah blah.
Well, the President has to work with those blithering idiots, you know.
They should love Trump then.
Months of Cruz’s criticisms of his Republican colleagues is now reaping some nasty rewards for the Junior Senator from Canada. During a discussion of continuing funding for the government, Cruz tried to interrupt the proceedings with a roll call vote. The usually polite decorum on the floor of the U.S. Senate quickly turned negative as even Cruz’s fellow Republicans refused to grant him what’s called a “sufficient second” that would have allowed him to briefly call for the vote.
Failing to be recognized for a sufficient second, Cruz attempted to interrupt to call for a voice vote and got a kind of voice vote he was not expecting - a loud chorus of “no’s” from his colleagues.
Cruz was fuming after the second repudiation. It was an “unprecedented trick,” said Cruz. However insiders see this as indicative of a combination of Cruz’s declining chances in his presidential nomination run combined with his colleagues rising anger at what they see as Cruz’s ongoing attempts to further his own political aspirations at their expense. Under Senate rules, Cruz had already been given an hour to speak on Monday night, but was not granted additional time.
Colleagues complain that Cruz has an almost Messianic view of his self-importance to both the Senate and the rest of the world. After being denied additional time, Cruz fumed from the Senate floor: “The Democrats are objecting to my speaking further. And both the Democrats and Republican leadership are objecting to the American people speaking further.”
How much speaking does one Junior Senator need?
Cruz’s calls for roll call votes are seen as mere tricks to get his colleagues on the record for anything with which he disagrees. His speech on Monday was filled with venom for Republican leaders and even praising of Democrats as being more resolute then the GOP.
As Politico put it: “Cruz also personally lambasted McConnell and his deputies for denying a roll call vote that would have failed anyway, arguing that results are rigged in the Senate and that conservatives have no influence anymore.” Interestingly, campaign reporters have noticed of late that Donald Trump - who Cruz frequently brands as a Democrat - seems to poll best in THE most traditionally Republican areas – the South and more rural areas; where Cruz seems to poll very well in typically deep blue precincts such as the urban centers. I’m Still reporting from Washington. Good day
Yay RINO’S!
Just about everyone in the Capitol are blithering idiots. Craven, self-serving ideological progeny of Philippe Pétain.
Those are great quotes. Thank you for posting them.
Another thing about Trump is his magnificent hair.
I think his skills as a businessman will come in very handy when he is president. It takes more than pure conservative ideology to be effective—it takes someone who understands how to get people to follow his vision. Trump has been doing that for decades.
Plus—hair.
Reagan was President. You'll seem attitudes change real fast if Cruz were to win.
No, the dilemma here is which way the Trumpsters want it. Either Cruz can't get along with establishment, or he is the establishment. Which way is that story supposed to go to go today?
Yup. And there are several here who advocate electing another lawyer. It's the lawyers and professional politicians that got us into this mess.
There is no conflict! He is and always has been part of the Bush establishment. Just look at his record! But he decided he could get to be President the same way Barack Obama did. Even studied and adopted Barack’s methods and tactics. (It appears to be working as well for Ted as it did for Barack among the weaker minds in the public.)
But the old bulls in the GOPee didn’t think it was his time yet. It was time for JEB!
Ted really pissed them off by his blatant disrespect for his elders. He laid low as Donald Trump finished off the rest of the Establishment, the took up the “outsider’s mantel”. As I said, it is working for the weak minds in the public. All those years of Fluoridated Water have cut the IQ of the public a lot! (Look up the Harvard study on that. It turns out those “kooks” who opposed fluoridated water were correct.)
Cruz can be humiliated. Unlike the majority of his colleagues, he's got a brilliant mind (too bad it's marred by mental illness).
However you have to twist it to make it sound right in your head.
Just know that to everyone without your imagination skills, it comes off as fruitloops.
Like Trump himself, FRUMPSTERS aren’t wed to one position on anything, not even calling a tossed coin, where you can have a fantasy world where Cruz is both an insider and despised by insiders. And in your reality they don’t dislike him for working against them, which he does, NO in your world they dislike him because he’s smarmy (because no one else is smarmy).
Now that you mentioned the hair....
Donald Trump is a type of Samson: Doesn’t drink, has wild hair, chases foreign women, gets really upset if the treat him unfairly, really good a slaying Philistines, and brings down the Temple of Dagon.
This is why I say that Donald Trump is a type of Samson:
Judgse 15
3 And Samson said to them, “This time I shall be blameless regarding the Philistines if I harm them!”
4 Then Samson went and caught three hundred foxes; and he took torches, turned the foxes tail to tail, and put a torch between each pair of tails.
5 When he had set the torches on fire, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.
Nelson, Thomas (2009-02-18). Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (p. 252). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.
[snort!]
“And both the Democrats and Republican leadership are objecting to the American people speaking further.”
...said the senator who is cozy with the non-democratic CO GOPe.
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