Posted on 02/16/2014 5:45:24 AM PST by cotton1706
Senators Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn say they put the country first. The debt ceiling needed to be raised. Ted Cruz opposed raising it. So McConnell and Cornyn voted to shut down Ted Cruz. They voted to cut off debate on raising the debt ceiling so that it could be raised.
McConnell and Cornyn have both been very clear about this. John Cornyn told the Austin American-Statesman
I think it would have been bad for the economy, bad for the American people, and I dont think it would have been good politics either.
Mitch McConnell declared it his job to protect the country.
Got that? Had the debt ceiling not been raised it would be bad for the economy and bad for the American people and the Senate must protect the country where it can.
So . . . um . . . if the debt ceiling needed to be raised for the country, the economy, and the people, why did John Cornyn and Mitch McConnell vote against raising the debt ceiling?
They both criticized Ted Cruz for wanting to block raising the debt ceiling, but they voted with Ted Cruz against raising the debt ceiling.
Whaaa ?!?!?!
Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn are cowards. They were in a conundrum. Their constituents did not want the debt ceiling raised. But McConnell and Cornyn wanted the debt ceiling raised. So they shut down Ted Cruzs filibuster knowing the Democrats would raise the debt ceiling without their votes. They, like their House counterparts, enabled this to happen.
In all their moral preening about whats good for the country and economy, they were too chicken to actually vote their conscience they were too chicken to do what they thought was right.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
McConnell is a caveman. He’s been known to cave every time he’s gone up against the democrats. Mitch “Caveman” McConnell might be able to get a gig with Geico after he loses the election. Geico announcement: Turtle Replaces Gecko.
Debt ceilings have been used for negotiation between the branches of government for decades. However, King Baraq decrees that he won’t negotiate on them any more, and the lily-livered leaders of the loser caucus just have to accept it? Why, because the WaPo and NYT will call them bad and blame the crisis on them? That is a failure of leadership, not of Ted Cruz. The country needs legislators who will fight for what is necessary to keep this country from collapse. There are very few of those at the moment. Time to sweep out those who won’t fight.
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