Posted on 12/15/2014 9:46:05 AM PST by SeekAndFind
For all of their foresight on other matters, America's founders were somewhat taken aback by the natural development of political parties. It happened anyway, even during George Washington's presidency. And although party ideology has fallen along different lines at various points in American history, it has long governed the allegiance of a majority of American voters in elections.
In legislative matters, party ideology takes the form of the modern party caucus system. In order to achieve their goals, partisan lawmakers collaborate, choose leaders, and agree on strategies in advance.
On Saturday, lawmakers demonstrated why this system evolved and is necessary. Two conservative senators, Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Mike Lee, R-Utah, discarded the caucus system and put their own tactical plan into action without warning. It did not prove helpful to their cause.
Cruz and Lee derailed a bipartisan agreement on procedure Friday night. Their actions removed the only major obstacle to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., confirming several minor Obama nominations that Republicans strongly opposed. Because Republicans lacked the votes to block the nominations in question, their best and only leverage was to insist on the use of all debate time, running out the clock on the lame duck Congress. It seemed likely that Democratic senators would not tolerate losing their Christmas just so that Obama could get his surgeon general confirmed.
Cruz's and Lee's parliamentary freelancing gave Reid all he needed to advance the schedule by two full days and guarantee the confirmation of these nominations. In exchange for making Reid's job easy on ramming the nominations through, all Cruz and Lee got was a symbolic floor vote against Obama's executive action on immigration. It drew the support of only 22 senators.
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There is a natural division between right and wrong.
I think God has a bit of humor in his guidance, and it’s no accident that we are referred to as ‘ring wingers’.
Lay the blame on Boehner, not Cruz and Lee. John Boehner IS the problem.
The House and Senate GOP have just decided who their ‘real leader’ is.
Our First Dictator, His Heinous - Barrack Hussein Obama.
That is whom the GOP just endorsed as their leader.
House does too
That's a lie. Reid was going to do it anyway this week, and McConnell and the GOP-E were "hoping" that he might reconsider in the spirit of "bi-partnership."
Cruz and Lee just flushed them all of out the bushes (no pun intended).
Stupid Android autocorrect!
I think that the GOP has demonstrated quite clearly to whom it is loyal and to whom it is not.
It is now time for conservatives to demonstrate that they understand the difference between a hostile enemy and a friend.
The lesser of two evils excuse doesn’t apply anymore, especially seeing that the GOP is, in fact, the greater of two evils.
McConnell is the dufus Republican Senate minority leader right now.
If only he could be replaced to be the Majority leader by Cruz.
This article seeks to undermine Cruz/Lee based on two nominations. Never mind the 25-40 million illegals the bill will fund being legalized.
Effort FAIL!
I know who it should not be.
Mitch McConnell or John Cornyn or Orrin Hatch.
I’ll take Ted Cruz any day at all.
From what I can tell, only 1 senator attempted to fight back against Obama’s amnesty decree.
Nancy Boehner showed just what a Obama Pajama Boi he is!
Roger that. McConnell and Boehner need to go.
Money and power, pure and simple.
B.O. is their real leader.
The real blame is on the morons who keep voting for Rhinos expecting them to behave better than libs!
I’m beginning to think that their leader is Marx.
Notice that all of the commentators criticizing Cruz and Lee now for forcing congress out into the open and on the record had nary a harsh word for Boehner when he gave the democrats control of the budget for another year, in spite of the midterm mandate.
And there is a article here that says he is threatening work this weekend to get the rest through? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3237441/posts.
I really don’t like some of the pundits on our side. They are weak, lie, misdirect and show their true colors when push comes to shove. So upset.
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