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Manners Before Truth: The Usual RINOs Pile on Ted Cruz
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Posted on 08/03/2015 9:55:41 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

Sen. Ted Cruz's public accusation that Mitch McConnell lied to fellow Senators has not gone over well among the GOP leadership. Establishment Republicans are predictably going after the Texas Senator and rebuking him for violating Senate etiquette.

Cruz made waves last week when he accused the Majority Leader on the Senate floor of telling a bald-faced lie to Republicans -- a lie that Cruz says opened the way to a vote on the Export-Import Bank, which conservative Republicans would have blocked if they had known the Majority Leader's plans. The Senate ended up voting to renew the Ex-Im Bank on Sunday evening. Cruz and other conservative Republicans have persistently fought the Ex-Im Bank, calling it a classic example of corporate welfare and congressional corruption.

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was among the first to attack Sen. Cruz's comments.

"I think it was outside the realm of Senate behavior," said Sen. John McCain, who has clashed with Cruz in the past. "I would never contemplate going to the floor of the Senate and impugning the integrity of another senator. Just not something we do here. I really think it was a very wrong thing to do."

Wrong, perhaps -- unless Cruz's claim is actually true. Wouldn't a straight-up lie warrant a slight breach of genteel manners? Would not a breach of trust warrant a breach of cordiality?

Perhaps it is this stubborn politeness, after all, that has for so long kept noble reformers from upending the money-changers who rule Congress and lie in bed with lobbyists. Perhaps it is McCain's profound and unrivaled concern for niceness that keeps the Senate awash in cronyism. Perhaps it is this unwavering devotion to the status quo, which rules the hearts of so many GOP leaders, that millions of Americans voted to oust last fall. Sadly, their votes have affected little change.

McCain is not alone in his overt concern for niceness over truth. Sen. Orrin Hatch threw in his own two cents on the matter.

"Squabbling and sanctimony may be tolerated in other venues -- or perhaps on the campaign trail -- but they have no place among colleagues in the United States Senate.

I see. So Cruz was simply grandstanding, perhaps trying to catch up to Donald Trump in the presidential polls. Whatever his motives, he couldn't have been expressing righteous indignation at a misguided Senate leader who goes to bat for K Street every day.

At least Cruz remained unfazed. His response to these criticisms was short and sweet.

"I do not believe speaking the truth is anything other than in the very best tradition of the United States Senate," Cruz said to reporters.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cruz; election2016; liberalscum; tedcruz; texas
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1 posted on 08/03/2015 9:55:41 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; MountainDad; aposiopetic; ...
    Ted Cruz Ping!

    If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.
    Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!

    CRUZ or LOSE!

2 posted on 08/03/2015 9:56:12 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie
V

"Of course we lie to scum voters and vets
to support our King and Caliph Obama.
Anyone who disagrees will get IRS attacks on their families."

3 posted on 08/03/2015 9:58:39 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: SoConPubbie

BUMP the Cruzer!


4 posted on 08/03/2015 10:00:38 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Diogenesis

Who cares what these losers say or think? They’re all liars -they lied to get elected - then threw in with obama’s agenda. Keep it coming, Cruz!


5 posted on 08/03/2015 10:02:01 AM PDT by Catsrus (a and)
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To: SoConPubbie; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; MountainDad; aposiopetic; ...
    Ted Cruz Ping!

    If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.
    Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!

    CRUZ or LOSE!

6 posted on 08/03/2015 10:03:10 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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Senate etiquette

Politico-speak for it's okay to lie to the voters 'cuz they're too stupid to recognize the truth.

7 posted on 08/03/2015 10:04:37 AM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: Diogenesis

I’ll be glad when they throw dirt on all three of them — McCain, Mitch, and Boehner.

Now I don’t wish that they die off but that seems to be the only way these GOPe thugs will go away.

They are fundamentally transforming America and need to go.


8 posted on 08/03/2015 10:05:16 AM PDT by boycott (S)
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To: SoConPubbie

“I do not believe speaking the truth is anything other than in the very best tradition of the United States Senate,” Cruz said to reporters.”

Truth no longer matters in congress and it isn’t present anywhere in the body of Hillary Clinton or Reid in the senate. When Reid said he told a lie in the senate about Romney, his reply to his lying was, “Well, he didn’t win, did he?” He has no credibility at all.

Cruz has truth on his side because he is an expert on the constitution and his actions show he is determined to get our country back on the constitution in its dealings with our citizens and the world.


9 posted on 08/03/2015 10:05:55 AM PDT by Marcella (TED CRUZ ; Prepping can save your life today.)
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To: Diogenesis; SoConPubbie; All

Golly, gee, “ violating Senate etiquette.” Senate etiquette is SO last century. ;-)


10 posted on 08/03/2015 10:07:50 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: stephenjohnbanker; SoConPubbie

DITTO!


11 posted on 08/03/2015 10:08:04 AM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: SoConPubbie
It is hate speech to espouse traditional American pride and culture.

We are told to value the cultures of every turd world failed nation and violent hateful religions. Tread lightly we are told, lest we appear intolerant.

But these nations and religions have nothing in common with our American Heritage. So to tolerate them means we must disavow and disrespect our native culture and values.

There is an obvious dissonance and growing conflict between Traditional American Values and those being imported and imposed upon us.

Ted Cruz is one of the few warriors for the cause of liberty and Christianity. I thank him for his courage and vision.

12 posted on 08/03/2015 10:08:14 AM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: SoConPubbie

so etiquette trumps truth in the US Senate??

I don’t think so!


13 posted on 08/03/2015 10:11:56 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Diogenesis
(In a scathing floor speech, the Texas firebrand accused the Senate majority leader of breaking his word to him and the rest of the GOP conference over McConnell’s plans for the controversial Export-Import Bank, the country’s chief export credit agency. In Cruz’s telling, McConnell privately promised him and other Republicans that “there was no deal” with a handful of senators who were seeking to revive the bank in exchange for their votes to advance a major trade bill in May.)

But after McConnell took procedural steps Friday to move to a proposal to revive the Ex-Im bank, Cruz said on the Senate floor: “I cannot believe he would tell a flat-out lie.”

Ted Cruz recognizes mendacious talk...if he says McConnell lied, McConnell lied...end of story!

14 posted on 08/03/2015 10:13:07 AM PDT by yoe
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To: Diogenesis

That’s Bull! Nothing comes before the truth,manners,Are you kidding me? Slaughtering babies,millions out of work,can’t find jobs,a lying bitch who has filled her pockets with cash from foreigners with a promise of favors when she gets crowned king,Manners Hell! Go for the jugular,


15 posted on 08/03/2015 10:13:38 AM PDT by ballplayer (hvexx NKK c bmytit II iyijjhihhiyyiyiyi it iyiiy II i hi jiihi ty yhiiyihiijhijjyjiyjiiijyuiiijihyii)
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To: SoConPubbie

The only thing better would be, when defending himself after the sickening responses of Hatch, McCain and the other goober would be . . . “The Senate had a tradition of civility that settled these matters with finality. It was called a duel. Mr. Burr and Mr. Hamilton took their disagreement outside chambers and did what gentlemen with guts and integrity did. That’s what I’m proposing today. The question Sen. McConnell needs to ask himself is this.. . . do you feel lucky? (facing McConnell)Well, do ya punk?” “I give the remainder of my time to Sen. McConnell for his response”. And then sit down.


16 posted on 08/03/2015 10:14:42 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Hillary is as believable as Sharknado 3. Oh Hell No!)
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To: Diogenesis

Three turds in the toilet


17 posted on 08/03/2015 10:25:18 AM PDT by beelzepug (liberalism is not...a political philosophy. It is a stage of arrested emotional development.)
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To: gleeaikin

Harry Reid must have written the rules on Senate etiquette.


18 posted on 08/03/2015 10:29:28 AM PDT by Catsrus (a and)
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To: SoConPubbie

When Reid said he told a lie in the senate about Romney, his reply to his lying was, “Well, he didn’t win, did he?” He has no credibility at all.
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Can anyone else but me hear the evil in that comment???

And he’s in our Government and in everybody’s private business???

Think about that for a while....


19 posted on 08/03/2015 10:30:42 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 (Trump/Cruz or Cruz/Trump....Make America Great Again....)
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To: Diogenesis

Three made guys DNC snickers.


20 posted on 08/03/2015 10:34:23 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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