Posted on 07/27/2015 3:16:11 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Sparks flew at a rare Sunday session of the Senate as Republican veteran Sen. Orrin Hatch opened the session with a rebuke aimed squarely at an unrepentant Ted Cruz.
The Senate establishment closed ranks against the Texas Republican presidential hopeful for a Senate floor speech Friday that denounced Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as a liar.
The speech was out of line, said Hatch, the Senate’s president pro tempore.
“Squabbling and sanctimony may be tolerated in other venues and perhaps on the campaign trail, but they have no place among colleagues in the United States Senate,” he said.
Cruz did not waver, maintaining that McConnell lied about backroom dealing to revive the Export-Import Bank.
“Speaking the truth about actions is entirely consistent with civility, he said, defending himself on the Senate floor.
Two votes were taken on Sunday: one to squash a procedural vote to repeal Obamacare; the other to revive the now-expired federal Export-Import Bank.
Both votes were on amendments to a must-pass highway bill. A Senate ruling on Friday killed Cruzs attempt to offer an amendment to the highway bill to block President Obamas Iran deal. Another vote Sunday failed to overturn Fridays ruling.
Besides accusing McConnell of being a liar, Cruz on Friday accused McConnell of operating as a “team” with Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, The Hill reported.
Hatchs reading of Senate Rule 19 — which prohibits senators from accusing each other of behavior “unworthy” of the Senate — was meant as a warning to Cruz, but the Senate Conservative Fund, an outside political organization, believes it only proves Cruzs point.
.@OrrinHatch knows @McConnellPress lied about the secret #ExIm deal or he would make a real Rule 19 objection against @tedcruz
Senate Conservatives (@SCF) July 26, 2015
Watch video of Hatchs rebuke below.
is ANYONE asking him if he did in fact lie?
Don’t. Giving them your cash in the cable bill and the ratings of your viewership only helps spread liberalism.
“. . . Bush administration took a senator who had been growing mellower and more independent with age and reduced him to a crude partisan attack dog.”
LOL That is so funny, it destroys the author’s entire article!
Oldplayer
No.
Excellent quote!
I told the Freeper Kentuckians that there was no way Allison Grimes would have been as bad as McConnell has now demonstrated himself to be.
The most important thing they could have done is loped off McConnell's political head and send it back to Kentucky instead of Washington D.C.
It really didn't matter at all who replaced him, so long as the message got sent to Washington D.C.
The Democrats in R jerseys are incensed.
I hope they all have aneurysms.
Most of the GOP Senators ARE Democrats in R jerseys.
For the Republic to survive, the GOP must die.
GOP-RIP
The more the GOPe and MSM attack Cruz, the more popular he becomes. These tools are actually helping him get his message out about how corrupt THEY are, but they’re too dumb to realize it!
I hope Cruz keeps up his attacks on these scumbags!
Go Cruz!
And we were called Obama loving America haters for doing so.
Alison Grimes WAS the lesser evil.
My hunch is that right now behind the scenes Cruz is lining up Senators, who will be willing to join him in defecting from the GOP and starting a new party. I think that is the most viable way that we could get a new Party, and the time has never been as ripe for it as it is now.
God, yes! What could be worse than having the whole class say "We don't like you?"
Rather than Cruz and Trump imploding it looks like the RNC and its storehouse of RINO’s are crashing. About time too.
Ahh, the old “truth defense.” Clever :)
So who needs them? What he's describing is a UNIPARTY. The one we have isn't working now.
FU GOPe!!!!!!
Cruz, a real old style Republican is running against the RINOSAURUS Party of The Old Guard leftists. maybe a 3rd Party is needed? Trump may have the answers—what dooes ne say about this outrage? Someday Cruz will sit in the White House—till then we must purge the GOP of RINOs, Pinklos, Democrat opperatives, and Fools.
So lying is a civil behaviour according to GOPe
Too bad the Repubs won’t fight the Dems as hard as they do Trump and Cruz.
Pray America is waking
So lying is a civil behaviour according to GOPe
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I know right! The GOPe are utterly clueless!
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