Posted on 07/26/2015 6:23:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Senate Republican leaders spent a rare Sunday session scolding Ted Cruz.
The leaders wagged their fingers at the younger senator, accusing him of using his pedestal in the upper chamber to "pursue personal ambitions."
Cruz, a Texas senator who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, drew the ire of his colleagues for claiming the top Republican in the Senate lied to him. He accused Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) of going back on a promise he claims McConnell made to him about the contentious Export-Import Bank.
On Friday, McConnell set up an amendment vote to reauthorize the bank, which provides loans to those purchasing American exports. That didn't sit well with Cruz -- a strong opponent of the bank -- who said he could not "believe [McConnell] would tell a flat-out lie."
In an attempt to get a vote on additional amendments to legislation currently before the Senate, Cruz utilized a procedural tool to overturn McConnell's decision to "fill the tree" on amendments. By filling the tree, McConnell is able to control more closely which amendments get a vote, and limit the amount....
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All they need to do is read their Facebook pages. Pages and pages of comments supporting Cruz and lambasting them.
You think they read them? And if they do, you think they care?
I just looked at their FB pages. I don’t think they look at them or manage them. I think it’s a staffer because the page timelines are marked by big photos and headlines on some pet issue of the politician and then below only a few messages show up and you are right they are 100% against the liberal agenda of the RINO.
But I seriously don’t think the politicians read them and if they get a report from the staffer that maintains the FB page, the negative comments are probably referred to as from “the crazies” as McCain likes to refer to the American people.
So they are elitist and don’t care what we think.
A man like Ted Cruz comes along only a few times in life. I pray he becomes our president. America can
be great again but we need a lot of help.
That will probably work to Trump’s advantage.
I’d wager that more of the low information voter crowd reads the Entertainment section than the Politics section.
It goes beyond Constitutional duties. One could probably fulfill those by simply showing up and voting “PRESENT”. My issue is that every time I turn around, I see a story about Ted Cruz sponsoring some bill. Well and good. But there has to be some possibility of getting those bills passed (see below—Cruz only has had one of his bills become law).
I don’t like McConnell either, but Cruz seems intent on pi$$ing people off. That is not the way to get things accomplished. It is the way to find yourself isolated. At some point, if you hit a brick wall, you need to reassess your approach.
“Leaders” and “leadership” need to always be in quotes!
Thanks for the post. In fact it looks like Cruz, Lee, Sessions and one or two more R’s are willing to buck the wussie McConnell.
I think it is high time we name names of those are always forcing this Crony Capitalism and GOPe crap down our throats and telling us we need to swallow their “medicine”,
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