http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/mitch-mcconnell-ted-cruz-feud-infighting
smiling faces, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgA2Sn3b6OM
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was forced to spend the long weekend defending his debt limit vote and talking up the importance of compromise to being a good leader.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) did the exact opposite: he publicly torched his own party's leadership for walking the plank and portrayed Republican senators a bunch of liars and cowards who think Americans are "rubes."
Tensions between the leader of the party's establishment wing and the leader of its tea party wing are reaching an all-time high as the two camps move in opposite directions in preparation for the November congressional elections.
"My job is to protect the country when I can and to step up and lead on those occasions when it's required. That's what I did," McConnell said in Louisville at a campaign event over the weekend, as quoted by CNN. "I negotiated the Budget Control Act with Vice President Biden in August of 2011. It led to a deficit-reduction package that actually reduced government spending for two years in a row for the first time since right after the Korean War."The GOP leader was responding to a backlash spurred by Cruz after McConnell and 11 other Republicans voted with Democrats to advance legislation to lift the debt ceiling without any policy add-ons. Ironically, it was Cruz who put them in that position by filibustering and forcing a 60-vote threshold to end debate. If not, Democrats would have carried it to victory alone and Republicans could have averted economic disaster without taking a painful vote.
the tea party whore is all in a hissy because part of his party decided it was really stupid not to pay bills that they already signed off on and are obligated to pay, but hey are trying to extort the Pres. again and ruin our credit rating again, since they decided not to shut the gov't down again and blame Pres.
