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Posted on 11/05/2014 1:56:30 PM PST by SoConPubbie
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, waves to the crowd at a Republican victory party on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, in Austin, …
WASHINGTON — Within minutes of polls closing in Kentucky, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell was declared the victor of a race some doubted he could win and many more hoped he would lose.
Like most recent congressional leaders, McConnell — who in 2009 declared that his party’s No. 1 goal would be to defeat President Barack Obama — had become a powerful symbol of his party and a major target for Democrats. His win in Kentucky Tuesday night was the first step toward realizing his career-long dream of becoming Senate majority leader. Outlining his potential approach toward leading the Senate, McConnell delivered what rang at first blush as a wildly optimistic view.
“Just because we have a two-party system, doesn’t mean we have to be in perpetual conflict,” McConnell said in a lengthy victory speech in Louisville hours after polls closed.
A divided, partisan Washington, however, is only part of the problem for Congress. The more pressing problem for a potential Majority Leader McConnell than the gulf between the parties is the divisions within his own. It’s a reality that House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio has grappled with for four years, with mixed success.
For McConnell and Senate Republicans, governing in the majority could prove to be more difficult than winning it was.
The first test of McConnell’s ability to manage intraparty divisions could come as soon as lawmakers return to Washington later this month for a lame-duck session. Congress will have to fund the government (again) to stave off a shutdown, approve a sweeping Department of Defense authorization bill, potentially approve an Iran sanctions measure, and also could clear Eric Holder’s replacement as U.S. attorney general.
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Was hoping McConnell would loose for this very reason. Next time the repub party calls me, I’m telling them no more $$$ until McConnell and Boehner are moved out of the way.
Good luck on that. Cruz will do what he thinks is right regardless of what McConnell or anyone else thinks.
Ted Cruz will be the next president, God willing. And he will reclaim America for Jesus.
Good luck, Yertl:
Michael Steele: Beware pizza with Ted Cruz
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3189022/posts
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is a rising Republican power in House, as well as a whip
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3187878/posts
Tea Party Leader: House GOP Finally Listening on Border (to Speaker Cruz)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3188077/posts
Get yourselves a life, pitiful authors of this stupid article, Meredith Shiner and Jon Ward
I don't think so.
The media is already trying to pit Republicans against each other. I don’t remember these type of stories, ever, related to Democrats!
Hate to break it to the left and the DC political class, but McConnell is only there by default. If cruise ran head-to-head against McConnell in Kentucky or Texas it would be a landslide for Cruz. If the party idiots continue to vilify Cruz instead of adopting his superior tactics, their leadership term will be quite short. If it isn’t our party that makes further changes, it will be the other one taking back The majority after these people screw it up again.
Ted Cruz Rallies Religious Right Voters To Save the Nation
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3223385/posts
Jack Welch to GOP: Run a real conservative in 2016
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3222931/posts
If McConnell had any sense, it would let Cruz be his point person. He can play up the out of control bit while letting him get his way and take the entire Senate to the right.
Cruz’s and Freedom’s big challenge, keeping a lid on McObamell supporter.
Just because we have a two-party system, doesn’t mean we have to be in perpetual conflict,.....YES, IT DOES!!! Until we beat the elites on their asses, split their skulls open, and piss on their remains.
Several Founding Fathers disagree.
In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams
"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others." James Madison Federalist No. 58, 1788
Cruz’s First Challenge:
Getting Mitch kicked OUT of the leadership.
Please let’s do away with McConnell. I was hoping he maybe wouldn’t/won’t have the support for majority leader.
Cruz as majority whip?
It’s a little hard for anyone to “keep a lid on” a United States Senator.
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