Posted on 09/26/2013 11:56:27 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Republican tensions grew Thursday as Tea Party-aligned senators rejected a bid to speed up the vote on a bill to fund the government while defunding ObamaCare, with one senior lawmaker accusing his colleagues of posturing -- as the chances of a government shutdown increased.
The flurry of activity occurred late Thursday afternoon on the Senate floor. With lawmakers facing a Sept. 30 deadline to pass a spending bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tried to get approval to hold key votes on Thursday, in order to give the House more time to consider the legislation.
But Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, objected, along with Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. That puts off the next vote until Friday.
Their complaints prompted a tense encounter on the floor with Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., who suggested the only reason they want to wait until Friday is because they want to turn the vote into a show for supporters.
"This is confusing to me," Corker said. "I'm understanding the reason we're waiting is that y'all have sent out releases and emails and you want everybody to be able to watch. It just doesn't seem to me that that's in our nation's interest."
Cruz later said: "I think it is unfortunate that any member of the United States Senate should want our votes to occur outside of the view of the American people."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Just called and left a “ cheer leading type” call rooting him on..... we are behind YOU MR. SPEAKER. NOW HOLD THAT LINE, ya gotta HOLD THAT LINE.”!!!!!!
Thank you for this list!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will believe it when I see it out of Boehner. He is spineless.
Sho nuff.
Just faxed!
Thank you so much!
God bless and keep you.
Great!
He’d better hold the line.
God bless and keep sweetest you.
Buuuuump!
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Yes! This is very good news to log on to this morning, keep you’re word Mr. Speaker and defund 0bamacare!
BTTT !!
I think it was this kind of Republican bashing that beat Romney and other candidates. Not I think Romney would have been much better than O, I don't but comments like these disheartened a lot of conservatives. I think we lost a lot of Freepers too who couldn't abide the infighting. Our goal should be to pull together or we don't have a chance. How many Democrats do you see bashing the hell out of their own?
Bottom line, I'll keep my negative opinions of Republican candidates to myself in the hopes we can get a few more like Ted Cruz in the end. That's our ONLY hope.
Thanks so much!
I made my two today and sent Mr. Speaker my email of encouragement!
BTTT
Listen you brain dead numbnutz, I voted for Santorum in the primary NOT ROMNEY, so stop with the self serving blame shift.
It is you and your ILK, the high minded, pompous, arrogant, brain dead dorks that loved their precious purity, more than they loved their Country, and now you want to blame us conservatives at FR, for selecting Romney.
You are truly pathetic and I pity you and your ILK...
Such a well-reasoned, fact-laden argument!
You assume that I am one of those who chose not to vote for Romney. You assume wrong. I do not intend to sully myself that way again, however.
You call me brain dead. I simply pointed out that a big portion of the GOP base resoundingly informed the GOP leadership that Romney was a non-starter. Then, when they held true to their word, they are indicted by arrogant, angry folks like you.
So, if honest accounting of history is now brain-death, I am happy to plead guilty.
You impugn me as seeking “purity”, but ignore the fact that the argument against Romney was *acceptability*. Whether you accept this honest history or not, it is truth.
Keep your self-righteous pity, FRiend. You chose to swallow the excrement sandwich presented to you because it had less excrement than the democrat version. So did I.
I intend to wash that taste out of my mouth and never again accept that 50% less excrement in the sandwich is a superior recipe. From your tone and words, you apparently intend to tell your GOP “elite” betters that anything less than 100% of the demo-excrement is just fine. Using the dems as the bottom line pretty much obliterates the minimum standards, doesn’t it?
If the R candidate does not acceptably represent my conservative views, then the R party obviously has no use for my vote.
If you and others believe that anyone who is unwilling to accept a particular candidate in exact compliance with their expressed opinions is unwelcome in the party, then please go ahead and expel them - but don’t feign self-righteous indignation when conservatives stand true to their explicit word.
If you’d like to discuss the true history of this coercive moment in the R party, I will gladly engage. But if your mental mettle can’t withstand that challenge, and all you can do is spout vitriol and spurious labels, you are not worth the time.
If I were a liberal Democrat in 2013, I’d be laughing and wiping my ass with the little people too....
Romney didn't vote himself in; a bunch of Republican voters did. I didn't by the way, I was stuck as well with what we got versus Obama. :-(
vitriol and spurious??? Yet, you start this exchange by calling me stupid and liberal.
I was enlisted Army and you were a Captain, so I respect your rank but not the selfish way that you retain the right to name call but take umbrage when you and your ILK are impugned.
Speaking of not worth the time, answer or not, I'm done with this time waster.
Your tactics, including calling another poster a "rockhead" and impugning your straw man label "purists" in post 47 (the post I replied to originally), as well as the quote below from your first post to me, are indeed extremely liberal - you call names and attack the person from your self-appointed high horse.
The quote:
It is you and your ILK, the high minded, pompous, arrogant, brain dead dorks that loved their precious purity, more than they loved their Country, and now you want to blame us conservatives at FR, for selecting Romney.
You are truly pathetic and I pity you and your ILK...
Thank you for your service.
Try to argue with facts and knowledge, rather than emotion. I failed in that arena myself - I know it can be very difficult.
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