The New Cruzians Are Ready to Make Life Hell for Mitch McConnell

[kpete]

The New Cruzians Are Ready to Make Life Hell for Mitch McConnell

A few bipartisan bills to show everyone a GOP Senate means business? Pledges to keep the government open for business? Not if these three new conservative senators can help it.

Congratulations, Mitch McConnell! You now have the hardest job in Washington.

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But as the incoming Senate majority leader, it will now fall to McConnell to receive legislation from the House, shepherd it past his 53-member majority, and deliver completed bills to the president, all while keeping the government open for business.

McConnell’s difficult job will be made enormously more complicated by the makeup of his incoming three-seat majority. It includes at least three senators eyeing a run for president (Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Rand Paul), and 11 new Republican members, three of whom have been pegged by grassroots activists as the conservative cavalry riding in as reinforcements for the Cruz wing of the party.



http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/17/the-new-cruzians-are-ready-to-make-life-hell-for-mitch-mcconnell.html

[pampango]

1. "Three new senators—Joni Ernst of Iowa, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, and Ben Sasse from Nebraska—were all

breakout stars for activists in the 2014 cycle. They raked in millions of dollars from outside groups like the Senate Conservatives Fund, and are the three that conservatives like Steve Deace, the nationally syndicated conservative radio host from Iowa, say they expect the most from.

“What I heard from conservatives I talked to around the country during the election was ‘Who is going to go there and help out Cruz and [Sen. Mike] Lee? Who is going to help out the wacko birds?’” said Deace, referring to the derisive term Sen. John McCain once used to describe Cruz that conservatives now wear as a badge of honor. “Our expectation is that [Ernst, Cotton and Sasse] are going to join the ranks of the wacko birds. That’s our expectation.”

The first place conservatives will look to the new freshmen to make their voices heard is on immigration, which Ernst and SCF both call “executive amnesty.” The president has indicated he’ll soon take sweeping unilateral action, a move McConnell said won’t draw him into a government shutdown fight when he takes over the majority.

“There won’t be a government shutdown,” McConnell pledged Thursday, a commitment that left conservatives livid. “Mitch McConnell is making promises he can’t keep,” Deace said. “Whatever enjoyment McConnell got out of being elected leader, enjoy it. Because from this point forward, power is going to be leaving his hands.”

One thing is for sure: nothing liberal is coming out of the Senate or House for 2 years. The question is only: how conservative will it be.

[2naSalit]

2. ...

[Ykcutnek]

3. Hope the stress gets to him.

[BlueJazz]

4. Sometimes bad things happen to Intelligent, Wonderful, Caring people.

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