Ted Cruz roils GOP again: The right’s exciting blame-shifting, intra-party trolling

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Ted Cruz roils GOP again: The right’s exciting blame-shifting, intra-party trolling

by Jim Newell at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2015/02/04/ted_cruz_roils_gop_again_the_rights_exciting_blame_shifting_intra_party_trolling/

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Cruz is reiterating his case that McConnell should block the White House’s attorney general nominee, Loretta Lynch, from a vote on the Senate floor until President Obama undoes his own executive actions. McConnell probably doesn’t have the stomach — or the spine! testicles! — to hold up confirmation of one of the government’s key officials over the latest outrage. It’s not a standoff he’d win in the court of public opinion. But there’s Cruz, anyway, covering his own ass, as he always does:


“For several months now, I have called on the Senate majority leader to halt confirmations of every nominee executive and judicial, other than vital national security positions, unless or until the president rescinds his unconstitutional amnesty,” Cruz told POLITICO in the Capitol. “We have an opportunity in front of us right now with Loretta Lynch – a nominee for attorney general — who has fully embraced and flat-out promised to implement the unconstitutional amnesty.”

Denying her confirmation, the conservative firebrand said, is “a concrete and definitive step we can take right now, using the tools that the Constitution gives Congress to rein in the president’s lawlessness.”

The key to Boehner and McConnell’s conundrum could reside in one of Cruz’s adjectives: “unconstitutional.” Everyone, from left to right, tends to make fun of Boehner and Republican leaders when they resort to threatening lawsuits against the executive branch of the government. But hey, if Republicans think something’s “unconstitutional,” you know what the best response to that is? To file suit against it on constitutional grounds, and let the courts determine its adherence to the Founders’ vision. Boehner and McConnell could say, we think it’s unconstitutional, too, so we’re bringing it to court. Now: let’s fund the government!



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[stevenleser]

1. Please proceed

Have at it GOP

[villager]

2. As I've said before -- the GOP is exactly like the "Mirror Universe" in "Star Trek," incapable

...of ultimately running anything in a lasting way.

The only problem is, they have no "Bearded Spock."

[lastlib]

3. Jesse Helms re-incarnated

AZZ-Wipe.

[2naSalit]

4. Mitch might have

an unfortunate accident waiting for him in his near future is he keeps it up.