Posted on 05/25/2013 9:38:22 AM PDT by Lakeshark
had read headlines about this speech by Ted Cruz, but watching it finally was even better.
As background, Sean Sullivan at WaPo’s The Fix points out our house is divided, Ted Cruz vs. John McCain: Welcome to the new normal in the Senate:
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) feuded this week. Then they feuded some more. It wasn’t the first time tensions between the longtime senator and the freshman tea party favorite flared up. And it’s a pretty safe bet that it won’t be the last.
The dispute between McCain and his allies and Cruz and his cohort lays bare a new fault line in the Senate GOP Conference — one that threatens to further stall movement in a legislative chamber already seized by partisan gridlock.
At issue this week: the budget. The setting: the Senate floor. Cruz, along with Republican Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Marco Rubio of Florida, and Mike Lee of Utah called for Senate Republicans to block efforts to move the budget debate to a conference committee (both the House and Senate have separately passed budgets) without a guarantee Democrats won’t surreptitiously try to insert an automatic increase to the nation’s debt limit through a procedural tactic.
(Excerpt) Read more at legalinsurrection.com ...
I’ll stand with Cruz any day of the week and twice on Sundays. (or Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, amd Saturdays.)
My post may not have been clear: Cruz is the one to listen to, HE is the new lion of the senate.
The old “Testosterone Free” GOOBers like McCain, Graham, McConnell and Boehner have got to go. Americans are fighting for their lives and their future here!
I stand with Cruz.
(to the extent I can from Cali)
I am looking for other Republicans to get with it, and move to the right side.
Now is the time. We have been lost now for eight years. We lost two elections, because we pretended to be Democrats.
That does not work. It is time Republicans.
Now.
(PS: Buy American!!)
bump
The headline is incorrect in my not so humble opinion.
It should read “Out With Republicans, In With True Conservatives”
Ted Cruz makes me proud to have voted for him
You were quite clear and I was emphatically agreeing with you.
The fight for the GOP becoming fully conservative should not stop until it's successful, that's inherent in Cruz's point to Mclame on the senate floor.
:-)
mccain reminds me of that senator from Montana in “THE SHOOTER’.
Thanks for your support. I stood with him at the voting booth!
I would not be surprised if the Republicans known as RINOs were to formally align with the Democrats, especially in the Senate.
I make any of my friends who stop by watch this,as a matter of fact I bluntly tell them I DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT ANYTHING TILL THEY ARE FINISHED WATCHING THE VIDEO!!!!
Boehnhead and McCain et all ARE the Republicans. Conservatives are a foreign growth in the body of the Republican Party which is a franchise of the Democrat Party for thepurpose of having an Opposition that doesn’t effectively oppose anything. Conservatives need to understand that and form their own real Conservative or Constitution or Liberty Party or whatever they want to call it but get shut of the Boehnes and McCains and Lindseys et al. If Conservatives form a separate party then the Republicans will mostly find they have to vote with it in Congress to keep their own heads above water. Example: UKIP in England.
Hear! Hear!
No more RINOs...ever! I held my nose and voted for Romney last year...never again. No more McCain’s...and NO Christie’s.
No more.
The Republicans did not lose two elections. They lost THREE, if you take into account the 2006 election which effectively made Bush 43 a lame duck.
The 2010 election was a freak occurrence that effectively kept the Current Occupant of the White Hut from carrying the ambitious agenda from 2008 all the way to completion, and the results of the 2012 elections were mixed, in that much of that agenda is still stalled.
Of course, The Won can still go over, under or around the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, by resorting to executive orders, and by selective enforcement of the legal means at his disposal. At the moment, the Once and Future “king” still holds some influence in the Senate, where his prize toad, Harry Reid, can bottle up or table legislation he has no interest in or intention of bringing to an up-or-down vote, except where it could be carried by a simple majority.
Ted Cruz has the fire that some of us older folk recall with Barry Goldwater. Jayeff Kay and Uncle Cornpone, Elbie Jay, were actually feeling a little threatened by his potential as a Presidential candidate, until the coup in Dallas (of which I always suspected Uncle Cornpone was the perpetrator) presented the remaining member with a martyr.
And it is hard to beat the Lamb who was slain.
McCain in effect is voting for this legislation by not standing up to oppse it. He is one of the reasons I will never again send any money to the GOP. The GOP does not stand for conservatives any long.
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