Ted Cruz Did Democrats a Big Favor Today That May Cost Mitch McConnell His Senate Seat

[Tx4obama]

February, 12th, 2014, 6:14 pm

Ted Cruz Did Democrats a Big Favor Today That May Cost Mitch McConnell His Senate Seat

By forcing Senate Republicans like Mitch McConnell to vote in favor of advancing the debt limit bill, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) helped Democrats, while sabotaging McConnell’s reelection campaign.

Ted Cruz insisted on filibustering the clean debt ceiling bill that the House passed yesterday, so this meant that the top two Republicans in the Senate, Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn were forced to vote for advancing the bill. After McConnell and Cornyn voted in support of advancing the bill to a final vote, ten other Republicans switched their votes from no to yes, making the final total 67-31.

Mitch McConnell is not only facing a tea party challenger in the Republican primary for his Senate seat back home in Kentucky, he is also dealing with a conservative electorate that already believed he was compromising too much with President Obama. By forcing Senate Republicans to vote to overcome a filibuster, Cruz made Mitch McConnell’s prospects for keeping his Senate seat a whole lot worse.

Cruz’s motivations became clear after the vote.

In a statement, Sen. Cruz said: ...

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Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/2014/02/12/ted-cruz-democrats-big-favor-today-cost-mitch-mcconnell-senate-seat.html

[kairos12]

1. McConnell now knows a different kind of Cruz Missile.

[Scuba]

2. I'm sure Cruz's donors are writing checks today. He's a grifter, like Huckabee and Palin.

I could be wrong; it could be that Cruz actually believes what his father says, but my gut says they're both just con men.

[AAO]

5. Scuba, please don't equate Huckster and Failin on the same grifter scale

Failin is a dumb pretender, the Huckster has degrees in it.

[Scuba]

9. Yes, the Huckster is a world-class con man. Cruz may be also. Palin's a wannabe, like always.

[AAO]

12. Yeah, the scum of the earth.

[IrishAyes]

10. Part of the Karma Kick in all this is that liars sometimes fall into the same trap

they set for others, when those lies become their reality. Of course it means Cruz is crazier than a cockroach, but what's new???? He's McCarthy reincarnated; even looks like him.

[SDjack]

3. Well played by Sen. Cruz. nt

[democratisphere]

4. QUESTION: Is Ted Cruz the MOST DANGEROUS senator in America.

RepubliCONS do chew each other up and spit each other out. Should be unbelievable, but it isn't.

[Blue Owl]

6. The Turtle is on Cruz control

Putt... Putt... Putt...

[Turbineguy]

7. money we don’t have

"Today’s vote is yet another example that establishment politicians from both parties are simply not listening to the American people. Outside the beltway, Americans of all political stripes understand that we cannot keep spending money we don’t have."

Because the republicans gave it to the rich.

[Tx4obama]

8. What is amazing is...

... is it seems as if the republicans do not realize that the money is authorized to be spent when Congress passes a budget.
The debt ceiling is raised only to be able to borrow money to pay for what the Congress has already agreed to spend.

I think the way it is done should be changed - the text for raising of the debt limit should added into the budget bill so that it is done automatically instread of a separate procedure.

[blkmusclmachine]

17. The GOP laments the "deficit," except when they're in control, then they spend $$ like drunk sailors

in a whorehouse.

[imthevicar]

11. More Duck tape Please!

[marble falls]

13. Good for y'all. Meanwhile he's still one of my two Teapublican Senators.

[demwing]

14. Ahh...the latest entry in my list

of "Reasons Why The Tea Party May Actually be a Democratic Party Plot!"

[Cha]

15. Tscruz is all about Tscruz. End of story.

[JoeyT]

16. Huh. It turns out

when someone is an unstable whack job it's generally not a good idea to hope they have your best interests at heart or to trust them to act rationally.

McConnell and I both learned something today.