To: Gaffer
OK, this is a problem...
If he is going to get rolled like this by a 2nd rate carny huckster like Mitch freakin McConnell, how will he do when he has to negotiate with Putin or the Chinese or really any other foreign leader?
Bad enough to vote for the horrible deal that the TPA is, but then to say “hey they lied to me and tricked me into doing it” just makes it worse in my book.
7 posted on
07/24/2015 10:32:13 AM PDT by
L,TOWM
(Is it still too soon to start shooting? [No social transformation without representation])
To: L,TOWM
13 posted on
07/24/2015 10:36:19 AM PDT by
BlackAdderess
("Give me a but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
To: L,TOWM
For Cruz to call out the Majority Leader of his own party on the Senate floor took guts !!!
14 posted on
07/24/2015 10:36:37 AM PDT by
Java4Jay
(The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
To: L,TOWM
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You're a complete fool ...
Mitch McConnell isn't a second-rate joker ... his Constitutional title is "Senate Majority Leader" ...
Cruz owed McConnell at least one chance to be fair, and McConnell lied through his teeth.
Ted Cruz then had the balls to publicly hammer McConnell ... on the senate floor, no less ...
Go back to "coloring" in your "book" ...
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To: L,TOWM
It's a matter of "Fool me once, shame on you..." Cruz said he had no evidence to not trust McConnell. Now he does.
It would be a dysfunctional Senate if everyone acted as if everyone else was lying all of the time. A Senator 's promise was currency. The deals were "vote for my bill X today and I'll vote for your bill Y next month." If you reneg next month, nobody will trust you again and you won't get anymore bills passed.
Now everyone knows that McConnell is a dishonest negotiator, at least with fellow Republicans. He probably keeps all of his promises with Democrats.
-PJ
32 posted on
07/24/2015 10:46:11 AM PDT by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: L,TOWM
bad analogy.......irrelevant. Pithy, but flawed.
40 posted on
07/24/2015 10:52:16 AM PDT by
C. Edmund Wright
(WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
To: L,TOWM
You’ve never been burned by a guy that you are suspicious of but have to work with to get stuff done?
Everybody else in the GOP just keeps going along with it. Cruz is saying, “He lied to me - I won’t let that happen again.”
Why is that bad?
To: L,TOWM
If he is going to get rolled like this by a 2nd rate carny huckster like Mitch freakin McConnell, how will he do when he has to negotiate with Putin or the Chinese or really any other foreign leader? As a junior Senator, you kind of have to give the party leader a chance - until you get stabbed in the back. A foreign leader - especially a hostile and/or antagonistic one - doesn't get that "one time" courtesy.
56 posted on
07/24/2015 11:08:10 AM PDT by
kevkrom
(I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
To: L,TOWM
Get the feeling the former Paulbots have transferred over enmasse to Ted Cruz?!
68 posted on
07/24/2015 11:25:37 AM PDT by
BlackAdderess
("Give me a but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
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