Posted on 02/02/2015 11:29:15 AM PST by cotton1706
Say what you will about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, but the man can deliver a joke.
Speaking at Washington’s tony Alfalfa Club dinner on Saturday night, the Republican spared few targets, the New York Times reports. McConnell poked fun at himself, new inductee Mitt Romney, and fellow members of the U.S. Senate, including a particularly incendiary Tea Party Republican from Texas.
McConnell noted that Cruz — the anti-Obamacare crusader who spearheaded the 2013 government shutdown, thereby earning the enmity of many fellow Republicans — had once proclaimed that he would throw himself in front of a moving train, if that’s what killing health reform would take.
“That idea has some merit to it,” a wry McConnell jabbed.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
I’d say bitch is just proving the old adage “Hell has no fury like a woman scorned “
Is that his boyfriend’s hand on his shoulder?
” The very same conservatives that held their noses and voted to keep the turtle in power. We deserve everything we get! It really is OUR fault. Not B!tch McNuttals, not Obola’s - they fault lies directly with us, and our willingness to push the party left with our lesser of evils votes. “
100%
You must live in Kentucky.
You joke about your friends in ways that make it evident you don’t mean them harm, because they are your friends. This is a joke that would be said about an enemy, not a fellow member of one’s party. I wonder if McConnell would ever make such a joke about, e.g., Tsarnaev or al-Baghdadi.
Did Cruz really say that?
Rand Paul: Time for GOP to soften war stance...by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war... We do need to expand the party and grow the party and that does mean that we don't always all agree on every issue" ... the party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage... "We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party," Paul said.[Posted on 01/31/2013 5:08:50 PM PST by xzins]
Rand Paul's immigration speech...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reformLatinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
Rand Slams Congress for Funding Egypt's Generals: 'How Does Your Conscience Feel Now?'Sen. Rand Paul is hammering his fellow senators for keeping billions in financial aid flowing to Egypt's military -- even as Cairo's security forces massacre anti-government activists. [by "anti-government activists" is meant church-burning Christian-murdering jihadists][Posted on 08/15/2013 5:44:10 PM PDT by Hoodat]
Rand Paul On Shutdown: "Even Though It Appeared I Was Participating In It, It Was A Dumb Idea"I said throughout the whole battle that shutting down the government was a dumb idea. Even though it did appear as if I was participating in it, I said it was a dumb idea. And the reason I voted for it, though, is that it's a conundrum. Here's the conundrum. We have a $17 trillion debt and people at home tell me you can't give the president a blank check. We just can't keep raising the debt ceiling without conditions. So unconditionally raising the debt ceiling, nobody at home wants me to vote for that and I can't vote for that. But the conundrum is if I don't we do approach these deadlines. So there is an impasse. In 2011, though, we had this impasse and the president did negotiate. We got the sequester. If we were to extend the sequester from discretionary spending to all the entitlements we would actually fix our problem within a few years.[Posted on 11/19/2013 12:16:51 PM by Third Person]
The antiChrist has spoken theough his mouth.
Jesus did not die for Mc Connel’s making light of Cruz imagery of sacrifice and US soldiers sacrificing themselves.
RINOs HATE THE MILITARY TOO! I always sensed hypocrisy from Bush, but now it is factually confirmed how they think.
This is a jab at achristians and soldiers sacrificing themselves and who vote for Cruz. This is clearly the meaning of this,
We already know the government has non profit support and is a virtual theocracy, and this is the face of their antiscience religion barring Christians from health care know how.
Obviously this swine loves Obamacare.
Geez, is he even old enough to be on the internet without adult supervision?
Is Ted Cruz the guy who was first elected to the Senate just two years ago and is already thinking about running for President? Oh, wait...
I'm waiting for Cruz and others to expose what a hollow claim "government shutdown" is. I'll bet most people don't know that the allegedly "furloughed" government employees all get back pay which amounts to a paid vacation, or that essential services like military salaries, SS payments and Medicare processing were not interrupted.
Your intent is questionable.
Ted has hit a nerve. Several, in fact.
Thanks for that, but it does not mention tyrants. As far as that goes, the ultimate advice on that, it looks to me, would be Jude 1:9.
I thought you were going to cite Romans 13:1-5. Remember also the apostles’ examples in Acts 4:19 and 5:29.
Is that a male or a female?
Must be a limp wrist anyway.
It’s very creepy not being able to discern the sex of a person instantly.
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