The Minority Maker, Ted Cruz hurts his party by forcing a meaningless debt-ceiling vote

Wall Street Journal ^ | February 12, 2014 | Editorial

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The Senate passed the House debt-limit increase on Wednesday, but not before some needless drama that helps to explain why Republicans remain a minority.

Democrats had enough votes to pass the increase with a simple majority, which means they would have owned the debt increase. But then Senator Ted Cruz —the same fellow who planned the GOP's shutdown fiasco in October—objected on the floor and insisted on a 60-vote majority. This is exactly what Democratic leader Harry Reid wanted because if the bill failed he would have sent the Senate home on recess and returned later this month to join President Obama in flogging the GOP as the debt-ceiling deadline neared.

[Cheerio]

Ted Cruz is my hero and I hope he makes a Pres run in 2016 if we still have a Constitutional Republic AND we still have free elections in lieu not martial law.

Here is something else to consider - IF, AND I SAY IF BECAUSE I DON'T SUBSCRIBE TO THIS TRADITIONAL WISDOM - THE PRESENTLY CONSITUTED GOP CAN TAKE BACK THE SENATE - ANYONE THAT RUNS ON A PLATFORM OF IMPEACHMENT WILL PICK UP TONS OF VOTES FROM CONSERVATIVES.

[houeto]

Actually he flushed the RINO’s out...again.

I wrote him a letter two days ago praising his efforts, urging him to stand strong and promising him that we will be sending him help in a few months.

I urge everyone to do the same.

[Graewoulf]

As Americans, WE are used to patiently, and silently waiting for solutions to problems to come from the top down.

This lazy attitude has been the basis for most Corporate and Political Management structures in America for most of OUR History.

WE now have the ultimate in lazy, top-down, political structure: a rouge dictator whom WE allow to be above OUR Constitutional Law.

WE will continue to have the current Obama Dictatorship as long as the Chief Impeachment Official, ( CIO ), the Speaker of the House, is allowed by US to permit Obama to continue as a OUR Dictator.

In all of Obama’s public statements, he has told the truth to US only twice:
1.) “We are only five days away from fundamentally changing the United States of America.”

and

2.) “I have a pen and a telephone, and I will use them to issue Executive Orders whenever Congress fails to act.”

Obama has thus defined himself to be OUR Dictator, and formally gave US fair warning of his intentions to do so.

For reasons that border on High Treason to the United States of America, Boehner as Speaker of the House, has failed his Constitutional Duty to begin Impeachment Proceedings on B. Hussein Obama.

The Members of the US House of Representatives have refused to force Boehner to resign; then to elect a Speaker with the required Sense of Honor to do his/her Constitutional Duty to begin Formal Impeachment Proceedings on B. Hussein Obama.

If WE, the taxpayers, do not force the Members of the US House of Representatives to replace Boehner as Speaker with a new Speaker that will issue the necessary Articles of Impeachment on B. Hussein Obama, then WE, the lazy, silent majority taxpayers, deserve to continue to have OUR Liberties crushed by Dictator Obama.

The future of OUR Republic is, as always, in OUR hands.

DONT TREAD ON ME