Last week, after many days of confusing rhetoric, the Republican led House passed a temporary spending bill that will fund all of the government except for Obamacare. House Speaker John Boehner had conservatives somewhat worried because initially, though he talked big about stopping Obamacare, it seemed he was going to vote against the defunding. In the end the House did the right thing and voted to at least delay this "train wreck" until after the first of the year. They sent the bill to the Senate.
None of us are surprised that Harry Reid doesn't want to bring the bill to the Senate floor for a vote. That's Harry's motus operendi.
"Right now in the Senate, Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn are actively whipping Senators to shut down debate on the House continuing resolution so that Harry Reid can gut it with just 51 votes,” a senior congressional staffer with intimate knowledge of the situation said in an email to Breitbart News. “Unbelievably, they actually are leading the fight to fully fund Obamacare.”
Breitbart is reporting that McConnell and Cornyn are trying to help Reid win over Cruz.
"First, when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid brings the House continuing resolution (CR) to the floor next week, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell needs to deliver 41 Republican votes to filibuster it until Senator Reid agrees not to try and restore funding for Obamacare. McConnell has the power to ensure that Reid cannot get an amendment onto the bill that strips the Obamacare defunding language with a simple majority vote. As Breitbart News laid out on Friday, McConnell has closed down one pathway that Reid could use:
If [Reid] introduces an amendment before the Senate votes on cloture for the House CR[, t]hat would require a 60-vote threshold, and McConnell’s spokesman Don Stewart told Breitbart News that if Reid attempted that tactic, all Senate Republicans would stand together to block it."
Ted Cruz is doing exactly what he was elected by the people of Texas to do - fight against Obamacare. Like so many other Republicans, Cruz ran on a platform of stopping Obamacare. The problem is that he, Mike Lee (R-UT), and Rand Paul (R-KY) seem to be the only ones who are still committed to their campaign promises. If McConnell is serious about defunding Obamacare (as he says he is) then he will deliver the 41 necessary votes to filibuster until Reid is forced to agree to a clean up-or-down Senate floor vote on the Obamacare defunding CR the House just passed. If he lets Harry Reid take the vote to a straight up or down vote, where 51 votes passes the bill, then McConnell and Cornyn will vote no so they can pretend they were against the amendment, knowing the entire time that it will pass.
“To be clear, nobody is fighting harder to make sure Obamacare is funded than Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn,” the senior staffer added.
The truly revolting thing about this is that they seem to be doing it to fight against Ted Cruz rather than against Obamacare. Cruz has angered and embarrassed Republican leaders because he is outspoken and he is taking the action that all of them should be taking. Rather than sit back and play ball with the Democrats, Ted Cruz is out there in the open, fighting for what he and his constituents believe in. And the Republican establishment hates him for it. So rather than vote against Obamacare, as they should be doing, they are rallying to vote against Ted Cruz. Our Republican leadership has turned into a joke.
I'm proud to have voted for Ted Cruz and to have him as my Senator!
I have not been a Republican for several years. I am a conservative and a Constitutionalist who believes, like Ronald Reagan, that government is the problem. I can narrow it down even more. Left wing, socialist believing Democrats, and Republicans who promise conservatism and then deliver progressivism are the problem. Every Republican who ran on a platform of doing away with Obamacare and now won't vote to defund it should be recalled.
I truly hope the people of Ohio and Kentucky are paying attention to John Boehner and Mitch McConnell and that other, more conservative Republicans (or Libertarians) run against them next time they're up for re-election. These RINOs need to go. It's time to put more Ted Cruz's, Mike Lees and Rand Pauls in Washington. Maybe, just maybe we can prevent America from becoming Europe.
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