Tea party tees off on McConnell after debt vote

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By DONNA CASSATA

WASHINGTON (AP) - The tea party is teeing off on Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.

Matt Bevin, who is challenging McConnell in the GOP primary in Kentucky, seized on the senator's vote Wednesday to move ahead on legislation to increase the nation's debt limit, describing it as a blank check for President Barack Obama. The tea party-backed businessman and conservative groups signaled they won't let Senate Republican incumbents forget the vote this election year.

"Kentucky and America can literally no longer afford such financially reckless behavior from the likes of Mitch McConnell," Bevin said in a statement.

Setting the vote in motion was one of McConnell's Republican colleagues - Texan Ted Cruz, the tea party darling who has caused heartburn for his GOP colleagues in his year in the Senate.

FULL story at link.


Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20140213/DABU80901.html

[RandiFan1290]

1. Will Mitch become a Democrat?

How long until the entire Democratic party is replaced by 'publicons that want to "moderate" with their friends in the tea party?

[DFW]

2. Fear not

The earth will turn backwards on its axis before McTurtle becomes a Democrat.

[gwheezie]

3. I hope the cuban canadian senator runs in the gop primary

this is going to be better than the 12 primary

[marble falls]

4. Sleep with the Tea Party and wake up to the Teabillies.

[The Wizard]

5. Unfortunately

a handful of Koch funded radical extremists have seized a major political party and is making the governance of the vast majority extremely difficult. McConnell may be a prick, but I doubt he wants to drown the government in a bathtub to the detriment of normal Americans. The Republicans chose to dance with the Devil and now they're being dragged to Hell.
Thanks Thomas, Scalia, Kennedy, Roberts and Allito for selling our government to the highest bidders. You have to wonder if they have Cayman Islands accounts where they hide the bribe money.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. With any luck, this and the "McConnell nominated activist judge who supports KY gay marriage"

story will mean McConnell has to spend a lot in his primary, weakening him against Alison Grimes in the general, who has a real chance of taking his seat:

Guess Who Nominated ‘Activist Judge’ Who Just Ruled KY Marriage Ban Unconstitutional?

You can thank virulently anti-gay Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, U.S. Senator from the great state of Kentucky, for today’s ruling that found a portion of the Bluegrass State’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.
...
U.S. District Court Judge John G. Heyburn II was “appointed to the bench by Republican president George H.W. Bush—at the recommendation of GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)!,” reports Jeremy Hooper at Good As You.

Heyburn once served as McConnell’s general counsel, apparently.

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/guess-who-nominated-activist-judge-who-just-ruled-ky-marriage-ban-unconstitutional/politics/2014/02/12/83096

[Loaded Liberal Dem]

7. Yesssssssssss, my prettiesssssssssssss,

tear each other to piecessssssssssssssssss!

[rgbecker]

8. Here's the unbiased reporting from the AP at link:

"The debt measure is required so that the government can borrow to pay Social Security benefits, federal salaries and bills from Medicare and Medicaid providers."

That's it...the entire reason according to the "Associated Press".

BULLSHIT!

I guess paying for unneeded aircraft carriers and submarines are not the reason?

[pampango]

9. The prospect of Democrats holding the Senate is tied to the success of Bevin and his tea party

in many states. We may be able to defeat McConnell and his corporate republican senatorial types, but we have better odds against tea party candidates.

Go get 'em, Matt!

[cosmicone]

10. I give Turtle McConnell credit for his courage

He could have taken the easy road and filibustered the thing in the first round just for political expediency. He did not and it may cost him his seat.

[Qutzupalotl]

11. "a blank check for President Obama."

No, it's a specific check for spending that congress authorized. Idiot.

Skipping out on paying debts is the mark of a deadbeat. Bet Bevin runs out of restaurants without paying, too.

K&R for a Democratic pickup!

[agentS]

12. So what does the Tea Party want?

ANOTHER government shutdown? No SSI checks going out?

"Kentucky and America can literally no longer afford such financially reckless behavior from the likes of Mitch McConnell," Bevin said in a statement.

Wellm, we could cut back on some expensive military programs, like the F-35...