Posted on 02/12/2014 12:57:00 PM PST by jimbo123
Senate Republican leaders Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and John Cornyn of Texas on Wednesday voted to advance legislation that would increase the nation’s borrowing capacity — but not before they spent 40 minutes of the open vote trying to get others to do it for them, likely out of fear of the conservative blowback that came almost immediately.
Earlier this week, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, demanded the 60-vote procedural move, which put McConnell and Cornyn in the uncomfortable position of having to find five Republicans to join Democrats in supporting the debt ceiling measure. By doing so, Cruz gave perfect fodder to tea party groups and candidates, like the Senate Conservatives Fund and McConnell opponent Matt Bevin, against in-cycle Republicans who would need to vote for the bill as opposed to just letting Democrats do it themselves with a simple majority.
Within minutes, the two leaders were getting hit on social media by their opponents.
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Rep. Steve Stockman @StockmanSenate Follow John Cornyn just voted to kill Ted Cruz's filibuster and raise the debt limit. #tcot #teaparty #gop #republican #txsen #txlege #txgop
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I believe that Cornyn just threw a pail of racing fuel onto the fire, don’t you?
I’m gathering up all the votes for STOCKMAN that I possibly can. STOVALL would be great, as well.
Bottom line is we hold Cornyn to under 50% and we can take him out in the run-off.
I have not seen it before.
It's non trivial and humorous.
What fraction of FReepers read a given thread?
A decent meme deserves wider distribution than just one shot.
The peeps of Murdo must be weeping...
Not really, Juan understands elections years. Remember how tough old Juan got on border enforcement during the 2010 Republican primary challenge from J. D. Hayworth?
Pure Projection.
“I sure hope you’re right!”
Just remember that when TED CRUZ started his campaign, he did so with a 6% name recognition across the state. The GOP Establishment (Cornyn, et al) just KNEW that their boy, David Dewhurst would walk away with it.
It’s not going to be easy, no question. Then again, we Texans don’t really care about “easy”. We do like the sting of battle every now and again.
Let’s ride!
All too well. Youtube still has some of the evidence of the gross perfidy.
AT this point I say the house majority and senate minority need to hold elections to replace their rogue leaders, and if they do not, may they all be held accountable for what they have allowed these “men” to do.
This damn sh*t needs to stop right now.
And Medved was just saying very nice things about both of them.
And folks will still claim Randmesty Paul is conservative...even though he supports all this thru his support of McConnell
Not supporting Bevin and Stockman in their primaries is really just supporting Obama and his GOP supporters
Damn right!
already sent money to both Stockman and Stovall, as well as Senate Conservatives Fund and Tea Party
My wife, family and friends are ready to vote next week.
And we will be there
” Cornyn’s radio ads about how conservative he is”
About an hour ago, Medved was touting this guy as a great conservative. He was also expounding on how the country is not really in any trouble. I was a bit surprised, and may stop listening to him.
Worth repeating in a very good/informative/interesting thread.
Who's running against Cornyn? And what do we know about them? Anybody but Cornyn(even Wendy).
Actually, I saw polling the other day that shows him ahead of McConnell and also leading the Democrat.
Good job!
We’re in this hunt, together!
Medved has become a ‘rat.
Give him a try, you won't be disappointed, I promise.
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