"Ted Cruz Demand Ensnares GOP Leaders In Debt Ceiling Vote"

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Ted Cruz Demand Ensnares GOP Leaders In Debt Ceiling Vote

by DONNA CASSATA at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/12/ted-cruz-debt-ceiling_n_4777203.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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Legislation to raise the nation's borrowing authority with no strings attached was short of the 60 votes it needed to advance — a threshold Cruz demanded — and without a few conversions, Republicans would be blamed for its failure. The stock market was watching.

After what seemed like an eternity, a grim-faced Sen. Mitch McConnell, the party leader who faces a tea party challenge back home, finally voted yes. An equally grim-faced Sen. John Cornyn, the party's No. 2 leader and Cruz's Texas colleague, changed his vote from no to yes.

Cruz showed no mercy in exposing Republican leaders to widespread criticism from their primary challengers over a procedural vote on the debt limit after their pronouncements about the imperative of spending cuts. It could have been a simple 50-vote requirement, with Democrats delivering the votes to lift the debt limit, but Cruz insisted.

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"It should have been a very easy vote," he told reporters. "In my view, every Senate Republican should have stood together." He added that the verdict on McConnell "is ultimately a decision ... for the voters in Kentucky."



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[Glitterati]

1. LOL, this man is just STUPID

isn't he like a leader of the Senatorial campaign committee?

You know, the Senators in charge of getting incumbents reelected?

How dumb is this fool?

[Tx4obama]

2. Related article/thread in Good Reads, below

Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/101684976

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3. Thanks for cross-posting Tx. I think this Cruz guy is so grandiose he

is keeping his Canadian citizenship so he can unite the two countries. Of course I could be wrong....but he's way way out there though where narcissism is concerned.

[Tx4obama]

4. Okay, but the one in Good Reads is a different one...

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5. Oh yeah I know. The more Cruz is the gift that keeps on giving the more

we should post from different takes. So we get a 3D view of him. And it should shore up democrats. This is good news. I was worried when Bachmann announced she was leaving the GOP. But Cruz is even better. He is what taking the GOP to their logical conclusion gets you.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

6. I don't think this asshole, Cruz understands how politics actually works

Which is just fine by me.