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To: ForYourChildren

Dump McConnell!!


3 posted on 03/28/2017 4:21:46 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Jim Robinson

One of my favorite stories on the Republican leadership.

From Cruz’s book......

On leadership corruption and sellout......


That Tuesday lunch began with our leadership [McConnell] saying, “We’re asking every Republican senator here, to affirmatively consent to lower the threshold for Harry Reid to take up the debt ceiling, from 60 votes to 50 votes. And we were told, everyone of you should agree for two reasons.

Number one, if we do this, it will happen, and hallelujah, hallelujah, that’s what we want. We want trillions more in debt with no spending reforms, because we’re scared of this issue. We don’t want to have a political fight on this.

But number two, if we do this, the Democrats will have the votes to do it on their own, which means all of us Republicans can vote no. And we can go home and tell our constituents, we opposed the thing we just consented to allow happen.

Now, I was sitting there — to be honest, I hadn’t gone to lunch intending to pick a fight, but as I listened to that, I was astonished and I raised my hand, and I said, “There’s no universe in which I can consent to doing that. I spent two years campaigning across Texas, telling Texas, if you elect me, I’ll fight with every breath in my body to stop the out of control spending and debt that are bankrupting our kids and grandkids.”

If were to do that, I think it would be both dishonest and unfaithful to the men and women who elected me.


12 posted on 03/28/2017 4:36:10 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: Jim Robinson

I think the established Republicans, including Ryan and McConnell, are only giving lip service to supporting Pres. Trump and biding their time until they can re-assume power. That’s why I’ll bet every Trump initiative will stall in Congress.


13 posted on 03/28/2017 4:37:00 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Jim Robinson

KY people will always believe in their McC, just like the Arizonans.


27 posted on 03/28/2017 5:43:57 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Let's not squander the golden opportunity of 2017.)
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