Posted on 07/24/2015 7:58:58 AM PDT by VinL
Firebrand Republican senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz on Friday rushed across a line rarely crossed on the Senate floor: He called the leader of his party, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a liar.
"What we just saw today was an absolute demonstration that not only what he told every Republican senator, but what he told the press over and over and over again, was a simple lie," Cruz said Friday morning. "We know now that when the majority leader looks us in the eyes and makes an explicit commitment, that he is willing to say things that he knows are false. That has consequences for how this body operates."
Prompting Cruz's outburst: McConnell's move to set up amendment votes on a must-pass transportation bill. After senators voted to consider the bill, McConnell (R-Ky.) set up votes on two controversial measures -- a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, and a reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank of the United States -- and did it in such a way that will make it difficult for other amendments to be considered.
That move incensed Cruz -- who, like many conservatives, strongly opposes the bank's reauthorization, though it enjoys support from a supermajority of his Senate colleagues. While McConnell has personally spoken against Ex-Im reauthorization, Democrats said in June he had agreed to schedule an Ex-Im vote in order to get highly divisive trade legislation passed.
But McConnell at the time denied that any deal had been made, and Cruz said the same assurance was given in a private Republican conference meeting.
"Like Saint Peter, he repeated it three times," Cruz said Friday.
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Trump has nothing to do with it.
Ted Cruz has always been this way. As Texas Solicitor General, Cruz successfully fought the Bush justice department who on behalf of Mexico wanted Texas to drop the death penalty for an illegal convicted of murder in Texas.
That was my first notice of Ted Cruz being different than most.
Yes, us Early Adopters know about Cruz, but the masses don’t. And what Trump has done is to bring to the forefront those issues on which Cruz shines.
Yeah, they believe it, because the Liberal Left Wing Democrat Union members who have a total lockdown monopoly on the Media have constantly led them to believe that.
The Truth is, Jimmy Carter (another Man Child Idiot) Initiated the process of keeping racial data for bank loans, and Bill Clinton decided to enforce racially biased loaning practices with the Government (Through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) guaranteeing those bad loans.
Faggot from Massachusetts Barney Frank, and Faggot from Illinois Barack Obama ran interference with any attempts to reign in the idiocy and excess caused by the Bill Clinton Banker Enrichment/Racist Loans con.
The Financial crises of 2008 was caused entirely by Democrats, but the Democrat media complex blamed the people who tried to prevent it from happening.
Cruz learning from Trump. Speaking truth to power is popular.
Time will tell if your prediction is in any way true.
It will be interesting to see what McConnell does. As a presidential candidate, Cruz may get a pass on this. Otherwise, I suspect the Senate leadership would demand action.
but he just crossed a line that may make him totally ineffective in the legislative process.
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Which legislative process is that? The McConnell/Reid/Obama “here’s how we run socialist America” process?
Ted Cruz is shining a light on a corrupt, un-American process— I would think the proper response is - thank you.
Wow!! Awesome! Somebody calling our the dickhead RINOs for once.
Go along to get along will never get us out of the mess we're in. The conservatives are totally ineffective if they don't stand up to McConnell.
Cruz is showing some courage. My guess is he's going all in for a higher position - either Pres, VP, or a high cabinet position.
Well, it happened on Bush's watch. Bush allowed us to get bogged down in Iraq and neglected the financial system.
There were smart people who saw the financial crash coming, why didn't Bush? Bush and weak candidate McCain sealed our fate to the radical Obama.
I think you are underestimating Mr. Cruz...
Hope those words tasted good coming out because you may eventually have to eat them.
The GOP and the Dems have been playing “good cop-bad cop” with us since 1995.
That is twenty years.
Whether it is through Trump, Cruz or someone else, the only way America becomes great again will be through a political party that is not beholden to the DC cartel.
And that party does not exist today.
Politically, the Bush Family owns the 2008 financial crisis— that’s Jeb’s legacy.
I hate agreeing with leftists but it is a fact that clowns like McConnell are bought and paid for by big business. And it is high time that somebody on our side called him out on it. Way to go Ted Cruz!
I completely agree with this. But Ted Cruz has been the voice of the Tea Party issues ever since he became part of the Senate. He has not needed Donald to "rub off on him".
Good that you got to meet him. Praying he will shine above all others.
That is HILLARIOUS!
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