After all, what they did was first described by J F'ng Kerry ... "I voted for it before I voted against it".
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.
But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
A murderer is less to be feared."
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Why did it take McConnell and Cornyn 45 minutes to do it for the country?
Because they were trying to find the GOP sucker who would be the 60th
vote. In addition, McConnell asked Reed that the voting rules be changed.
McConnell is no Patriot.
I loathe those bassturds in DC
After all, what they did was first described by J F'ng Kerry ... "I voted for it before I voted against it".
Socialists are bad for the economy/country.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
Senators Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn say they put the country first. The debt ceiling needed to be raised.
Really? Pushing the Country over a cliff is putting it first?
No you sorry ass whimps. You put politics first and this Nation and its people last. You are disgusting..
Mitch McConnell declared it his job to protect his job .
Another DC Beltway cocktail circuit pass has been re-validated. Meanwhile, back in the land of the great unwashed....TEA is brewing.
And, amazingly, they were praised for their “courage” by no less than Quin Hilyer over at National Review.
I don’t get it, on this they cave to the Dems, but on the extension of the unemployment they hold the line.
Way to make ordinary people feel like you care about them, not.
I think it is a stretch to assume conscience had anything to do with McConnell's & Cornyn voting, but rather everything to do with what is right for them, not America. Clearly, they voted both ways, so which vote was conscientious & which was not?
The author hit the nail on the damn head.
The Senate and House have already approved spending that would take the debt over the limit, so if they didn’t allow the debt limit to be raised, then Obama & Co. would arrange things so all the visible spending that would inconvenience voters would get cut.
McConnell & Co. know they would lose that argument in the Fascist media and probably not be re-elected.
And that is the real deal.
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.