Monday, July 27, 2015

More: Truth That May Not Be Spoken

Senate GOP leaders slam Cruz for calling McConnell a liar

"WASHINGTON The Senate’s Republican leadership rhetorically took Sen. Ted Cruz to the woodshed Sunday for calling Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a liar last week on the chamber’s floor.

Cruz was unbowed, firing back soon after leaving the Senate floor and accusing Senate Republican leaders of marching in lockstep with Senate Democrats on such things as funding the Affordable Care Act, funding Planned Parenthood and refusing to tie an Iran nuclear deal to Iran’s recognition of Israel’s right to exist.

“They operate as a team, expanding Washington and undermining the liberty of the people,” the Texas Republican said of Senate Democratic and Republican leaders.

“We’ve just seen something extraordinary on the Senate floor. The American people elected a Republican majority believing that a Republican majority would be somehow different from a Democratic majority in the United States Senate. Unfortunately, the way the current Senate operates, there is one party, the Washington party.”


The admonishment of the 2016 Republican presidential candidate came as a prelude to a series of votes that advanced language to revive the Export-Import Bank, moved the chamber closer towards passing a highway funding bill, and once again rejected a measure to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

The Senate opened the rare Sunday session in a highly unusual manner: with a warning.

“The chair reminds all senators of the following paragraph from Rule 19 of the Standing Rules of the Senate … ‘No senator in debate shall directly or indirectly by any form of words impute to another senator or to other senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a senator,’” Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the chamber’s president pro tempore, sternly read.

That was a response to Cruz, who last Friday accused Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,of lying about whether he made a deal to have the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank attached to a highway legislation that senators must pass by this coming Friday.

“What we just saw today was an absolute demonstration that not only what he told every Republican senator, but what he told the press over and over and over again, was simply a lie,” Cruz said in the fiery speech Friday. “We know now that when the majority leader looks us in the eyes and makes an explicit commitment, that he is willing to say things that he knows are false."
One who is proven to produce lies is a liar. This is obvious truth; it cannot be said. Why? Because establishment Republicans no longer accept truth as a valuable commodity - being Democrat-lite is their worldview.

2 comments:

Rikalonius said...

‘No senator in debate shall directly or indirectly by any form of words impute to another senator or to other senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a senator,’

What a bunch of pablum. More Orwellian doublespeak to keep any uppity riff-raff from pointing out the obvious elephant in the Senate chamber. This is starting to make the Senate floor in another land circa 40's BC look like a bunch of honest statesman in comparison.

Stan said...

There was a span of time during which the Taiwan congress would get into debating by throwing chairs, fisticuffs and general mayhem. That always cracked me up. I haven't heard any of that for years now, so maybe they have settled down a bit...

In our own congress it was OK for a furious, screaming Nancy Pelosi to chase a congressman around the room. All part of decorum, Leftist style.