The WP’s brow is all a-furrow over this.
Traitor McConnell must go!
McConnell must have really let loose some whoppers for Ted to drop the anchor on his head.
Uh, maybe but maybe mainly because Mitch IS a liar.
Why??
Uh because McConnell is a leader of the ‘destroy America’ group?
Because Mitch McConnell is a lying duplicitous weasel.
We got rid of our weasel, Eric Cantor last year.
KY should have done the same.
Alison Grimes was the lesser evil.
Why?
Because:
1) Principle: Conservative principle says keep government out of business. Cruz is right on conservative principle.
2) Separation: Cruz separates himself from the disastrous facts and image of the GOPe / RINO wing of the party that is clearly beholden to the Chamber of Crony Capitalists.
3) Mavericky: Cruz demonstrates his unwillingness to bend principle to political expedience, power, corporations, leadership, etc. You could call this “independence”.
4) Triangulation: Setting himself on the side of CITIZENS against CORPORATIONS is something lots of undecided, middle-of-the-roaders, blue dog democrats, Reagan Democrats, etc. want to hear. He steals liberal thunder by using a conservative position to rail against the same things the left hates: Corporate Welfare.
5) Ratings: Lots of good sound-bites in there. Presidential candidates have to stay in the news cycle.
6) Subject Matter: Cruz gets to set the table and win the game by creating an issue nobody else is talking about. Trump? Hillary? Jebster? Walker? Where do they stand on the conservative principle of getting government out of the business of business? If they are lucky, they can only play catch-up to Cruz on this.
7) Correcting: Cruz was on the wrong side of 0bamaTrade, and this helps offset that mis-step. While he did correct himself on 0bamaTrade (badly and too late imho), the people offended by 0bamaTrade are offended in the same manner by the Ex Im Bank. So he gets to apply an ointment to that self-inflicted wound.
Cruz was Brilliant on this, as on so much more.
As long as Mitch McConnell is being savaged, I’m a happy camper. Can someone now please savage Boehner?
They seem to think this is some calculation, like Clinton’s triangulations, as if he doesn’t mean it. Cruz might be angry because McConnell lied to him, that congress is robbing the people, and the people have no influence anymore.
My suspicion is the Ex-Im Bank is going to be used to finance the new Boeing airliners Iran wants to buy when the sanctions are lifted. Probably something Mitch promised the chamber of cronies which is why he’s using every dirty trick in the book to keep the bank alive.
hey susie
The “Turtle” needs to get knuckled much more often......and not just by Cruz. Cruz has merely shown the way. Now it’s time for others to speak up.
Senator Cruz had no choice but to stand up to Senator McConnell.
“Once it closes shop, I think it becomes increasingly difficult to revive it.”
Dick Durbin
Good riddance. Hey, let’s remember that during the next shut-down.
No, it helps the unions, which in turn help the politicians, which in turn help favored businesses.
The key to this particular deal is the involvement of Maria Cantwell. She has been facilitating the construction of a coal terminal in her home state of WA, to ship Peabody Energy’s Powder River Basin coal to China or wherever they can induce a country to buy the product, whose value is now less than dirt, literally. A short ton of sub-bituminous coal is now valued at less than a load of top soil, a lot less. They need the help of the export -import bank to get taxpayers to pay other countries to take it off their hands and pay the shipping costs.
McConnell comes from a coal State, but this coal is not bituminous coal from privately owned mines. This coal from leased land, managed by the government and owned by Indian tribes.
There is a lot of cronyism and an out of court settlement with Obama’s EPA, as well as Richard Trumpka involved that has led to the Democrat push for this coal tournament, but they couldn’t do it without McConnell. So the question is what did McConnell get for it?
The government role of controlling role in commerce is called Fascism. Without invoking the term that defined the political philosophy, this article and those their believers are marching in formation with Hitler and Mussolini. It's simply another variation of Marxist, Communism, Fascism, Progressism. It all leads to the same cesspool.
Cruz was able to do this because Trump has been softening the DC cartel up with his carpet-bombing.
Cruz savaged McConnell because McConnell looked him in the eye and lied.
This is good. It will give us a feel for Cruz’s ability to work on his agenda. If he can kill the Ex-Im, he’ll have done something and made it stick.
Democrats, liberals and the media (and many Republicans) hate the truth. Lying is the ‘norm’ for these people. Evil is on the Throne while Good (decency and truth) is on the Gallows. And the sad part is much of the public does not seem to care.