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Cruz Slams Boehner for Not Leaving Immediately
RollCall ^ | 9/28/15 | Niels Lesniewski

Posted on 09/29/2015 3:16:15 PM PDT by VinL

Sen. Ted Cruz blasted outgoing Speaker John A. Boehner Monday for sticking around for a month after the Ohio Republican announced his intent to resign.

The Republican presidential candidate from Texas was rebuffed by his colleagues from even getting the show of 11 hands needed for a sufficient second of a motion for a roll call vote on a process that would set up an amendment to the “clean” continuing resolution on defunding Planned Parenthood and the international nuclear agreement with Iran.

After saying he would repeat his procedural maneuvering Tuesday, he turned much of his focus to the decision by Boehner to move the CR ahead of his recently announced retirement plan.

“Speaker Boehner has decided to cut a deal with Leader Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the Democrats, that this dirty CR that’s going to be passed out of the Senate is going to go to the House and the speaker’s going to take it up on the floor, pass it with all the Democrats just like Leader McConnell just did, and a handful of Republicans who will go with Republican leadership,” Cruz said. “A very significant percentage will vote no, but here is the problem: Speaker Boehner’s done that more than once.”

The stopgap spending bill, which runs through Dec. 11, will arrive in the House no later than early Wednesday, which happens to be the last day of the current fiscal year. The motion to thwart a filibuster threat garnered 77 votes in the Senate, meaning all that remains is burning the clock.

“I believe if Speaker Boehner had done that, had passed a dirty CR funding Planned Parenthood and funding this Iranian nuclear deal, that he would have lost his speakership,” Cruz said, accusing Boehner of “leading the Democratic Party.”

Boehner said Sunday on the CBS program “Face the Nation” he was confident he would have survived an effort to vacate the presiding officer’s chair like the one introduced by Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C.

“Speaker Boehner faced a conundrum. If he does what he and Leader McConnell promised, which is fund all of Barack Obama’s priorities, he would have lost his job,” Cruz said, even though Boehner told CBS he could have gotten roughly 400 votes, meaning that Democrats in the House would have joined to thwart the procedural maneuvering.

“Notice he said he’s going to stay a month. He’s going to stay a month in order to join with the Democrats and fund Barack Obama’s priorities,” said Cruz, before turning his attention back to Senate Republicans.

Cruz criticized the “Herculean procedural steps” to get legislation through that would revive the Export-Import Bank, contrasting it with the effort to block appropriations to Plann


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To: VinL

vote now to vacate the chair.
a little forced humiliation is in order, no?

strip him of the dignity of self disposal and go ahead and publish whatever it was that was being used against him by the Obama Administration.

I say:
lie down with the dog... get up with his fleas... at the dog pound!


41 posted on 09/29/2015 3:51:42 PM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (When you see a drowning liberal, throw them the anchor...)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

It has enough on readers who in turn vote.

Either FR is a influential as in Dan Rather or it isn’t. Can’t be both depending on who wants to have an excuse.


42 posted on 09/29/2015 3:53:45 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

I can’t do it either.


43 posted on 09/29/2015 3:54:57 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Thats why we are hated.


44 posted on 09/29/2015 3:56:00 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart; Georgia Girl 2

Watch how rich Boner becomes over the next 2 years. Obama and the Establishment traitors owe him big time, and he has little right now


45 posted on 09/29/2015 3:58:33 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Norm Lenhart

Oh yeah!


46 posted on 09/29/2015 3:59:04 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: VinL

Did Boehner respond by giving Cruz another “obscene gesture”?


47 posted on 09/29/2015 4:01:04 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I think Vince Foster will have company before long actually. Leftists reward failed useful idiots accordingly. Thats why he cries alot. He knows Harry’s exercize equipment is being moved into his office. The dems will them join the GOP for a modern Wellstone ‘rally’ to unite the country and put it behind us so that the healing can begin and they can get back to doing the important work the American people elected them to do.


48 posted on 09/29/2015 4:01:49 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Yes in a couple five years he will be a multi millionare.


49 posted on 09/29/2015 4:02:37 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

He sold his country down the river. That is worth big money to the right people, like Soros.


50 posted on 09/29/2015 4:06:09 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Norm Lenhart

Could be. A stage 3 alcoholic is a dangerous guy to leave hanging around.


51 posted on 09/29/2015 4:07:16 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Yup. Imagine drunk Bhoner in a bar spilling his guts about what he did to get barrys agenda passed.


52 posted on 09/29/2015 4:11:02 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

That could happen too!

Dangerous. A bit of hemlock in his Jack Black ?

Oh yeah, they are much more clever these days.


53 posted on 09/29/2015 4:12:48 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Stand Watch Listen
We have one righteous man in leadership who is bravely standing up to the evil that rules over us. The betrayal of our Republican leaders to their constituents is epic. Ted Cruz knows that the leader of the Senate changed the rules last year to prevent someone from winning the nomination in the primarie’s and he knows who that someone is.
54 posted on 09/29/2015 4:47:56 PM PDT by Aquamarine
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To: Jane Long

Bastard should be run out of town on a rail. I hope karma gets him and good. Sorry for the bad word.


55 posted on 09/29/2015 5:03:00 PM PDT by funfan
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To: VinL

boom boom boom boom....he shot lil johnny right down...

while standing up for common sense!!

Go Ted!!


57 posted on 09/29/2015 6:21:01 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: VinL

-— More an indictment of the GOP Senate than of Cruz, eh? -—

Of course. Damned depressing, though.


58 posted on 09/29/2015 6:28:12 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: chris37

[I don’t know what it’s going to take to turn this situation around, but I am pretty sure that elections aren’t it.]

The virtually imminent collapse may make a few new conservatives


59 posted on 09/29/2015 6:30:02 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: TBP

And this cat doesn’t poll better?

Ted’s my guy. Methinks it ain’t over until a fat Clinton lady (urk, furball) sings.


60 posted on 09/29/2015 7:19:45 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck ( NOTE TO RNC: I will not be voting for another Bush. Ever. No matter what his last name is.)
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