GOP Turns on McConnell: Cruz Blasts from Senate Floor, 10/31/15.
(Breitbart) – Sen. Ted
Cruz blasted Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) from the
Senate floor last night and has been expressing his displeasure with
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for some time. Now it appears as though
the Republican base is joining Cruz in his displeasure with McConnell, who is
often seen as a weak leader by Conservatives.
A new Gallup poll
has Mitch underwater: Republicans’ Views of McConnell Now Tilt Negative. Republicans
are more likely to have an unfavorable opinion (35%) of Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell than a favorable one (30%). Just 18 months ago, Republicans
were twice as likely to view him positively (47%) as negatively (23%).
The more Republicans
see of Mitch as a majority leader, the less it seems they like him. It’s quite
likely they expected more fight from him given the rhetoric he used to
gain the majority before using it to give Barack Obama just what he wanted time
and time, again..
Republicans viewed
McConnell favorably from 2010 — three years after he became the party’s Senate
leader — through 2014. During his time as minority leader, his favorable
ratings were generally near 50% and his unfavorable ratings near 20%.
As for Cruz’s latest
official salvo at the beleaguered leader, the entire speech can be viewed here: The
Budget Deal Is a Corrupt Betrayal of the American People.
His office also
released the following written statement. Cruz is enjoying quite a bit of
momentum coming off the last GOP debate, having raised over $1 million in the
last 24 hours.
WASHINGTON, D.C. —
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today delivered a speech on the Senate floor,
denouncing the shockingly bad budget deal and outlining the Republican
establishment’s multitude of broken promises. Excerpts of Sen. Cruz’s speech
can be read below.
“Mr. President, for
many months, I’ve been speaking about what I call the Washington Cartel. The
Washington Cartel consists of career politicians in both parties who get in bed
with lobbyists and special interests here in Washington and grow and grow and
grow government. The Washington Cartel is, I believe, the source of the
volcanic frustration Americans face across this country. And it is difficult to
find a better illustration of the Washington Cartel than the charade we are
engaged in this evening. This deal that we are here to vote on is both
shockingly bad on the merits, and it is also a manifestation of the bipartisan
corruption that suffuses Washington, D.C.
What are the terms of
this budget deal? Well, in short, what the House of Representatives has passed
and what the senate is expected to pass shortly is a bill that adds $85 billion
in spending increases…$85 billion in spending increases…$85 billion to our
national debt…85 billion to your children and my children that they’re somehow
expected to pay. I don’t know about your kids, but my girls don’t have $85
billion laying around in their rooms…”…It’s worth thinking about just how much
$85 billion is. It’s more than the Senate negotiated with the House
when Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) was majority leader. When Harry Reid was
majority leader, the Ryan-Murray budget agreement, which was a flawed
agreement, an agreement I voted against, increased spending by $63 billion over
two years. Now, Mr. President, what does it say to you that a supposedly
Republican majority of the United States Senate negotiates a bigger spending
bill than Harry Reid and the Democrats?…Republican majorities have just given President
Obama is a diamond-encrusted, glow-in-the-dark AmEx card. And it has a special
feature. The president gets to spend it now, and they don’t even send him the
bill. They send the bill to your kids and my kids. It’s a pretty nifty card.
You don’t have to pay for it. You get to spend it and it’s somebody else’s
problem.”…Let me point something out. You know, this bill that we’re voting on,
this bill was not cooked up overnight. This wasn’t a slapdash on a post-it note
last night. This represents days or weeks or months of negotiations. This
represents the Cartel in all of its glory because this is the combined work
product of Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) and Mitch McConnell and Harry
Reid. The entire time Republican leaders have been promising, ‘We’re going to
do something on the budget. We’re going to rein in the president,’ they have
been in the back room negotiating to fund every single thing Obama did.…Now, if
someone is an effective Democratic leader, you would expect them to be able to
pass legislation when a majority of Democrats supported it and a majority of
Republicans opposed it — if you’re a partisan Democrat, that would be almost
the definition of an effective Democratic leader. Nineteen times in the last
ten months this so-called Republican majority has passed legislation, has had a
vote succeed where a majority of Democrats supported it and a majority of
Republicans opposed it…”
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