Corker takes on Cruz as GOP feuding moves to the Senate floor

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill

By Alexander Bolton - 09/26/13 06:24 PM ET

Feuding in the Republican conference moved to the Senate floor on Thursday as Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) accused two colleagues of risking a government shutdown as a publicity stunt.

“The reason you don’t want to send a bill over to the House, who could possibly put in place some very good policies for us here, is that you want the American people and the outside groups that you’ve been in contact with to be able to watch us tomorrow,” Corker said to Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), two Tea Party-affiliated lawmakers.
Corker accused Cruz and Lee of playing to the cameras after Lee balked at a request to accelerate the process for considering a stopgap spending bill that also would defund ObamaCare.

Cruz and Lee objected to ending debate on the bill because it would allow Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to strip the ObamaCare language with a simple majority vote.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/324977-corker-takes-on-cruz-as-gop-feud-moves-to-the-senate-floor

[Stuart G]

1. Let them destroy themselves..nt

[DonViejo]

2. I'm waiting for a slug fest on the Senate floor. eom

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. They are slugs.

Disclaimer: Not meant to demean slugs..................

[cstanleytech]

6. Actually they are more like leeches in that they (the GOP) are sucking the country dry. nt

[wordpix]

15. Duzy!

[11 Bravo]

7. There's never a Preston Brooks around when you need one!

[ColesCountyDem]

9. I'll lend my cane to whomever wants to become the next one!

[awoke_in_2003]

14. Wouldn't we want a Sumner? nt

[11 Bravo]

21. Sumner was the one who got his ass kicked. We already have plenty of those.

[awoke_in_2003]

22. yes, but he was in the right and...

helped sway some sympathy toward that cause. I do understand where you are coming from, though- we need an ass kicker

[1StrongBlackMan]

16. That's what I was thinking ...

when is some republican going to grab cruz by the scruff of the neck and beat him senseless?

[Tx4obama]

4. VIDEO on the link below

GOP Sen. Fights Cruz on Senate Floor: Why Did You Vote For Something You Spent 21 Hours Filibustering?

VIDEO here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/gop-senator-fights-ted-cruz-on-senate-floor-why-did-you-vote-for-something-you-spent-21-hours-filibustering/

[DCBob]

5. wow.. the old guard gop are really freaking out.

This could be a turning point in the republican party.

[Capt.Rocky300]

8. I have to go to the store........

for more popcorn!!

[Skittles]

10. YEE HAW!

[freshwest]

11. '...the outside groups that you’ve been in contact with to be able to watch us tomorrow..'

Indeed, the outside groups like all those Koch funded and Nordquist and Rove organizations that are not elected but whom these RWNJs serve.

How close to the truth will the old guard GOP dare to go to stop these RWNJs?

IMO, not very far, as this current brand they created is showing what they really meant for us all along.

They are like the 'mascot' in the classic dysfunctional group, who acts out what the front men of the group really think but doesn't have the artifice to hide it.

[Nye Bevan]

12. Obama gets to act presidential, above the fray,

while the Republicans engage in a ridiculous civil war where there is no good exit strategy.

[davidpdx]

18. When that happens it is a good day

The Republican Party is like a bunch of schizophrenics running around lighting each other's hair on fire.

[GeorgeGist]

13. When does Reid exert his Leadership?

[1StrongBlackMan]

17. And do what? eom

[jessie04]

19. When they draw guns on each other....

we hit the mother load.

[DonViejo]

20. Hmmm. I wonder if guns are permitted on the Senate floor. eom