Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn Save America

[Brian4Liberty]

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Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn Save America, Vote to Raise Debt Limit

Anyone who listened to Republican senators yesterday could tell they were unhappy to be stuck with a "clean" debt limit increase. Oh, not that most of them didn't want to pass it and move on. They did! But it was going to be tough to sell back home. It got tougher after Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, shocking absolutely no one, said he'd demand a cloture vote on the bill, one that would require every Democrat and independent and at least five Republicans to suspend the debt limit through the 2014 election.
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The vote was held open for 45 minutes as Harry Reid struggled to break past 58 votes for passage. Finally, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell and Texas Sen. John Cornyn arrived to vote "aye" and push the bill through.
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[FriedChicken]

I'm glad Cruz did this.

[Ronin Truth]

I think total Fed debt repudiation is the way to save America.

[Brian4Liberty]

What is the point of the debt ceiling?


WASHINGTON — It was a moment of real drama in a chamber known for its somnambulism. Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, counted votes on his hand, at one point holding up three fingers as he searched for the remaining votes. Senator John Cornyn of Texas, his No. 2, paced the Senate floor.

What happened next would determine whether their party would again be blamed for triggering a crisis. But when it was clear they had no choice, the two Republicans, who face primary challenges in the November midterm elections, stepped forward in tandem on Wednesday to break their party’s filibuster.
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It also represented a public rebuke of the Tea Party wing by Republican Party elders in what has been a sometimes fierce intramural struggle.
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Conservatives were left infuriated by what they saw as an abdication of fiscal responsibility, and began calling for the resignation of top congressional Republicans. Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, said his group would redouble its efforts to replace the top two Republican leaders.

“Between the grass-roots frustration with Mitch McConnell and with John Boehner, it’s the perfect storm,” Mr. Kibbe said.

Mr. Cruz, who had forced the filibuster, seeking deficit reduction talks in exchange for the debt ceiling increase, declared, “Today was a classic victory for Washington establishment interests, and the people who lost were the American people who find the fiscal and economic condition of this nation even worse because of a lack of leadership.”

Had Mr. Cruz not mounted the filibuster, the debt-ceiling increase could have passed the Senate with only Democratic votes — an outcome many Republicans wanted. But he was unapologetic, even as many of his colleagues fumed that he had single-handedly forced his own leaders to take perhaps the most difficult vote of this election season.

“It should have been a very easy vote,” Mr. Cruz said. “In my view, every Senate Republican should have stood together and said what every one of us tells our constituents back home, which is that we will not go along with raising the debt ceiling while doing nothing to address the underlying spending problem.”

After the vote, Mr. McCain joked that he was only talking about the stormy winter weather.

“I’ve never been any good at twisting arms, which is one of the many reasons why I was never president of the United States,” he said. But he added praise for Mr. McConnell: “Seriously, he knows that he’s the leader — he’s the elected Republican leader — and that it was up to him to cast the right vote,” Mr. McCain said.

President Obama, a winner in the showdown, has promised to sign the debt ceiling increase.
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More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/13/us/politics/senate-debt-ceiling-increase.html