GOP Rinos are all of a sudden joining (with) the young upstart senator Ted Cruz.

[PHILIP SCHNEIDER]

Finger Lickin’ Frauds

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  Editor of Red State

September 24th, 2013 at 09:11 PM  |

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Within hours of Liz Cheney, now a candidate for the Senate in Wyoming, announcing her support of Ted Cruz’s filibuster, Senator Mike Enzi, who Cheney is primarying, took to the floor of the United States Senate and declared he stood with Ted Cruz.

Pat Roberts, the elderly Senator from Kansas who may soon be getting a stiff primary challenge, stiffly stood on the floor of the United States Senate to show he too stood with Ted Cruz.

Rand Paul, after NBC News reported he may disagree with Cruz’s filibuster threat, went to the floor of the Senate and stood with Ted Cruz.

Meanwhile, John Cornyn and Mitch McConnell and Lamar Alexander and other Republican Senators are leaking attacks against Cruz on background. They complained to reporters about Cruz suggesting they were cowards. They did so off the record and in the shadows.

Mitch McConnell, instead of standing with Cruz on the floor of the Senate, participated in a teletownhall in which he told listeners the only way to stop Obamacare was for him to be Senate Majority Leader. [update: this information came after the initial post]

Ted Cruz and Mike Lee will not get the forty-one votes they need to sustain their filibuster. They will be betrayed by Republican senators who are willing to fund Obamacare while claiming to vote against it. But in this filibuster and in their brilliant strategy, they have exposed Republicans who will not fight. They have exposed Republicans who are so desperate for their own reelection they will say or do anything when they could not bother in off years. They have shown Republicans that there are Republicans who are willing to stand up to Barack Obama and to the cowards within their own party.

They have also exposed a lot of people on the outside as frauds. To be sure, there are conservatives who have legitimate reasons to disagree with this strategy. But there are a whole lot who have been exposed as finger lickin’ frauds — willing to put their finger to the wind of beltway opinion to chart their course.

The Beltway Republican pundits bellyaching over Cruz and Lee fighting the fight others promised to fight is just a fart in the maelstrom of conservatives united against both Democrats and the finger lickin’ frauds within the Republican Party who talk a good game then fold like cheap suits.

Many of the Republicans who told conservatives to be good team players for Romney have shown that they will say and do anything to cut deals to undermine conservatives during this fight. Cruz and Lee are exposing them.

Cruz and Lee have brought antiseptic sunlight to the fight within the Republican Party. They are the men in the arena. If Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, and with them Marco Rubio and others win this fight, they will be triumphant. But if they lose, at least they “shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know vic....”

Had Cruz and Lee not done this, the ending position for the Republicans would be far worse than what it would otherwise be. Had conservatives not pushed Congress to the brink on the debt ceiling, sequestration would never have happened. Because Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Marco Rubio, and their House counterparts have shown just how far conservatives are willing to go now, House and Senate Republicans know they cannot cave for table scraps.

But they have, in this, been exposed as willing to otherwise settle or table scraps.

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`If Ted Cruz ultimately makes no difference to the funding process of Obamacare, at LEAST he will have highlighted the fact that:

the GOP (Grand Old Party) is no longer GRAND but it IS OLD and is headed for it's LAST PARTY.

[PHILIP SCHNEIDER]

I watched Durbin talk. I got the queessies and the hair on my neck stood up. It was like I was being threatened and my body went into an automatic fight/flight response.

Durbin sucks! Obviously he would have no problem throwing Judy under the bus.

[Patty]

I have watched Dick Durbin support 62 year old Judy who couldn't get insurance her whole life for pre-existing conditions. Durbin was allowed to rant on and on today about how he and the democrats are the champions for pre-existing conditions and the republicans are the evil Americans trying to deny sick people access to healthcare. Not one Republican senator stood up to challenge him with facts even though I have presented it to most of their offices.

Well here's the truth:

The current HIPAA laws probably already covered her. These laws from 1996 are still in effect today and protect most Americans when they change jobs and under other scenarios:

http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/faqs/faq_consumer_hipaa.html

And Dick Durbin is pulling the wool over the voters eyes. He was in congress in 1996 when this bill passed and he voted AGAINST covering Americans' pre-existing conditions with a NAY vote on the law!!!!!! If Judy had depended on Durbin in 1996 she wouldn't have gotten coverage for her pre-existing condition!!!!

http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/26847/dick-durbin/?p=20#.U...

I called Durbin's local office and challenged them and they went silent. They are so young that they don't even know that he voted against a law covering their pre-existing conditions and would have denied people health insurance. They had no answer.