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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Feb 11, 2014, 06:06 PM Feb 2014

Ted Cruz Threatens To Filibuster Clean Debt Limit Hike

Source: TPM

DANIEL STRAUSS – FEBRUARY 11, 2014, 4:59 PM EST

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) will push a 60-vote threshold, meaning he's threatening to filibuster, on a clean debt ceiling increase extension. Cruz's office confirmed the Texas senator's plans to TPM on Tuesday afternoon.

Cruz's move means lawmakers will need to rally 60 votes in the chamber to pass the bill, and Democrats only control 55 votes. The announcement came the same day that House Republicans dropped a previous debt ceiling increase proposal and embraced a clean hike instead.

That decision sparked outrage from tea party groups with Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin calling it a "complete capitulation."

The Senate vote on the clean debt ceiling bill is likely to come shortly after the House vote planned for Tuesday evening.

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Ted Cruz Threatens To Filibuster Clean Debt Limit Hike (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2014 OP
Make the idiot get up and read the phonebook for 48 hours non-stop groundloop Feb 2014 #1
How about this one? KamaAina Feb 2014 #4
Go for it Ted, it'll really boost the Republican brand. Scuba Feb 2014 #2
I'm with you. David Zephyr Feb 2014 #11
Cruz is grandstanding? Half-Century Man Feb 2014 #3
Which children's book will he read this time? NastyRiffraff Feb 2014 #5
Is he going to pre-emptively not have anything to do with holding it up? Thor_MN Feb 2014 #6
I was just reading about Marco Rubio sulphurdunn Feb 2014 #7
What about Rubio and Mike Lee. Are all the tea party senators together on this? pampango Feb 2014 #8
Oh Please, Please Ted - Go for it! dem in texas Feb 2014 #9
I doubt very seriously he could get forty Senators to back his filibuster on this issue. Bandit Feb 2014 #10
Please proceed, Senator. nt bemildred Feb 2014 #12
ROFL alcibiades_mystery Feb 2014 #19
Sadly he's depending on the insanely short attention span of most Americans... Blue Idaho Feb 2014 #13
the bill will have more than 60 votes...so Cruz is immaterial beachbum bob Feb 2014 #14
Little Baggie of Scum aquart Feb 2014 #15
No thanks. I've already heard "Green Eggs And Ham". no_hypocrisy Feb 2014 #16
Do it, shitbird. (nt) Paladin Feb 2014 #17
Rafael can go suck an egg. Beacool Feb 2014 #18
GET OFF THE PLANET, CANADIAN-CUBAN! nt onehandle Feb 2014 #20
Do it, Ted! truthisfreedom Feb 2014 #21
Next head line "Ted Cruz threatens a clean toilet" Aerows Feb 2014 #22
And then afterwards deny it, too. marble falls Feb 2014 #23
And his base will believe him 100%. Kablooie Feb 2014 #24
Does one get to be king of the stupid by being the least stupid or by being the most stupid? marble falls Feb 2014 #25
Will he read Cat in the Hat or Hop on Pop? VanillaRhapsody Feb 2014 #26
I'm hoping for Fox in Sox VWolf Feb 2014 #28
Can we send this dude back to Canada, Cuba, Germany, ... blkmusclmachine Feb 2014 #27

groundloop

(11,530 posts)
1. Make the idiot get up and read the phonebook for 48 hours non-stop
Tue Feb 11, 2014, 06:11 PM
Feb 2014

If he feels that strongly about it he should be willing to actually filibuster. None of these make believe filibusters the GOPers have been getting away with.

David Zephyr

(22,785 posts)
11. I'm with you.
Tue Feb 11, 2014, 07:01 PM
Feb 2014

Hope he does it. He'll just make the GOP look worse to Americans than they already do.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
5. Which children's book will he read this time?
Tue Feb 11, 2014, 06:24 PM
Feb 2014

I vote for Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Not that he'd understand it any more than he understood Green Eggs and Ham

 

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)
6. Is he going to pre-emptively not have anything to do with holding it up?
Tue Feb 11, 2014, 06:26 PM
Feb 2014

Are his antics going to be the fault of liberals again?

 

sulphurdunn

(6,891 posts)
7. I was just reading about Marco Rubio
Tue Feb 11, 2014, 06:27 PM
Feb 2014

doing his usual soft shoe shuffle, neither confirming nor denying ever having smoked pot and not having the huevos to just say "It's none of you damn business." Now Cruz threatens to strut and prance another filibuster across the senate stage to keep his name on the news. Both of these evil clowns are pandering for the repuke presidential nomination. Cruz is the meaner asshole of the pair, but Rubio is stupider. It's a tossup. How did it ever come to this?

pampango

(24,692 posts)
8. What about Rubio and Mike Lee. Are all the tea party senators together on this?
Tue Feb 11, 2014, 06:34 PM
Feb 2014
That decision sparked outrage from tea party groups ...

Ahhhh, the sweet sound of republican infighting. Get Rubio and Lee on the phone. I want all of them pontificating and keeping the tea party folks frothing at the mouth about the evils of Boehner and other RINO's.

dem in texas

(2,674 posts)
9. Oh Please, Please Ted - Go for it!
Tue Feb 11, 2014, 06:53 PM
Feb 2014

The more he acts the fool, the worst it is for the Repubs and Tea party. Hope they never wake up and realize that people are tired of their foolishness.

Bandit

(21,475 posts)
10. I doubt very seriously he could get forty Senators to back his filibuster on this issue.
Tue Feb 11, 2014, 06:59 PM
Feb 2014

He is just making noise for his Tea-Party Base.

Blue Idaho

(5,067 posts)
13. Sadly he's depending on the insanely short attention span of most Americans...
Tue Feb 11, 2014, 07:03 PM
Feb 2014

When the time comes he will just deny he did anything of the sort and his dumb ass followers will swallow it whole.

truthisfreedom

(23,164 posts)
21. Do it, Ted!
Tue Feb 11, 2014, 11:06 PM
Feb 2014

Do it do it do it! We need to completely rid ourselves of teabagger scum, and in order to do that, we need to see you naked and writhing in the madness that you are.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
22. Next head line "Ted Cruz threatens a clean toilet"
Tue Feb 11, 2014, 11:06 PM
Feb 2014

"Holds a press conference about his desire to keep all toilets unclean"

"Americans shouldn't be held hostage by the idea of clean toilets." The Texas Senator said. "They should know that our forefathers didn't rely on clean toilets to be effective leaders", he added. "If a toilet is dirtied by the Congress, it is the duty of all Americans to accept it."

"Besides," the Senator added, "I'm smarter that the shit in a toilet bowl."

The shit in the toilet bowl declined to comment.

Kablooie

(18,645 posts)
24. And his base will believe him 100%.
Tue Feb 11, 2014, 11:15 PM
Feb 2014

Truths they disdain but if it's a lie, they will climb all over each other to believe it.

VWolf

(3,944 posts)
28. I'm hoping for Fox in Sox
Wed Feb 12, 2014, 09:28 AM
Feb 2014

That way we can see him get all tongue twisted (in much the same manner as his logic and reasoning is twisted).

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