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Ted Cruz against the world: Senator’s feud w/McCain reveals arrogance-and continuing crackup of GOP
Salon ^ | May 24, 2013 | Joan Walsh

Posted on 05/24/2013 12:13:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

One bonus for Republicans in the trifecta of pseudo-scandals ensnaring the Obama White House this month is that it distracted the party from its looming civil war. It’s even possible that the Senate immigration reform got as far as it did partly because wingnut radio talkers and Tea Party xenophobes were consumed by their hatred of Obama, and paying less attention to GOP immigration sellouts.

But with the easing of scandal fever on the Potomac, Republicans are back to fighting one another, and the week-long Senate clash between freshman Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. John McCain over the budget is exposing the yawning gulf within the party once again.

Now that the GOP-dominated House and Democratic-led Senate have passed very different budgets, McCain has tried to argue for the formation of a conference committee that would try to reconcile the two. That might be a thankless, impossible task nowadays, but it’s nonetheless the way Congress has always worked. Democrats agree with McCain, and so do most Republicans.

But Cruz was having none of it, because he insisted sneaky Democrats might use the committee to raise the debt ceiling. He got support from Tea Party allies Mike Lee and Rand Paul, as well as Marco Rubio (trying to claw back the Tea Party credibility he lost by working on immigration reform). McCain reminded Cruz and his friends that their party controls the House.....

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TOPICS: Texas; Issues; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: democrats; juanmcstain; liberalidiots; mccain; salon; squishes
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Right....if I want to find out what’s happening with the GOP I’m gonna ask salon.


41 posted on 05/24/2013 4:02:01 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Vigilanteman

My son and I just returned from D.C. Being from Texas we asked Senator Cruz for Senate Gallery passes. When we picked up our passes, we had the honor of meeting Senator Cruz. As we were leaving, my son looked at the Senator and said two things:

1. Sir, you are doing a great job.
2. The senate needs more people like you.

I was floored. Here is an 18 year old that said that. But he is correct. Cruz is doing a great job and we do need more like him.


42 posted on 05/24/2013 4:41:19 PM PDT by drinktheobamakoolaid (If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. Abraham Lincoln)
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43 posted on 05/24/2013 6:31:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: drinktheobamakoolaid
Good for your boy! The pressures on freshman congressman and senators to go native are enormous. It never hurts to remind them who sent them to Washington even if you think they have the spine not to go native.

My sister and several of her college classmates worked their hearts out to get Orrin Hatch get elected to the U.S. Senate back in 1976. For his first two terms or so, he was the solid conservative firebrand whom they sent to Washington. After that, the record sort of speaks for itself.

44 posted on 05/24/2013 8:30:05 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Durbin

Well, in the last election he had over 20 million reasons why they voted for him.


45 posted on 05/28/2013 5:41:30 AM PDT by House Atreides
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