Mitch McConnell and GOP leadership humiliate Ted Cruz on the Senate floor

[DonViejo]

Other junior senators wanting to grandstand on issues relevant to their presidential campaigns should take note

SCOTT ERIC KAUFMAN

All Ted Cruz wanted to do was abuse his position in the Senate to grandstand on issues that would help bolster his faltering bid for the White House, but his decision to call Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a “flat-out” liar on Friday had dire consequences for the Texas senator, whose Republican colleagues turned their back on him when he tried to perform a simple roll call on Sunday.

As Politico’s Manu Raju and Burgess Everett report, McConnell’s decision to move ahead with an effort to extend the Export-Import bank’s charter by attaching it to a highway bill infuriated Cruz, who characterized the procedural move as a “flat-out lie” in direct contradiction with how McConnell assured Republican senators the bank would be handled.

That he said that isn’t the issue — that he said it on the Senate floor, which has rules governing how senators address each other, is. “I think it was a violation of the rules,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) said. “It’s not how you treat a colleague regardless of how you feel.”

Maine’s Susan Collins (R) agreed, saying that “I know emotions run high on issues in the Senate, and those are the times when I think we have to take special care to abide by the rules of the Senate, particularly Rule 19, which is very clear that no senator is to impugn the integrity of another senator.”

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[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Sorry Teddy, it's against the rules to point out that Senators are liars.

Exactly the kind of 'old boys network' bs that has Congress less popular than cockroaches with the public.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. It is becoming very

evident that McConnell runs the GOP. When we see him take a shot at his fellow Senator for something the Corporate Machine wants,you know the real side of the Republican Party. Amazing how work a day people back these folks. Ignorance is bliss.

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3. The image attached to the article is priceless:

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4. Oh but it's okay to call the President a liar in Congress?

no consequences there.