Amidst the Republican cheer about scandals afflicting the Obama administration and Democrats, there is a far more interesting sideshow going on in Washington — one that threatens to tear the GOP apart right at the time they need to be unified in order to keep the House and take control of the Senate next year.

It’s the ongoing, destructive feud between two Senators representing different factions of the Republican Senate. John McCain representing the GOP establishment and Ted Cruz, darling of the Tea Party nationwide, have been going at it all week on the Senate floor.

The proximate cause of the sniping and backbiting has been the GOP establishment’s desire to move the budget recently passed by Senate Democrats to a conference committee. But Cruz, Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, and Rand Paul are blocking the motion because they believe the Democrats will try to slip a rise in the debt ceiling somewhere in the budget, thus denying conservatives the opportunity to use the debt as leverage in their efforts to get the congress on record to pass a balanced budget in 10 years.
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The real fight is for the very soul of the Republican party and what the public face of the GOP will be. Will Republicans be seen as ideologically rigid obstructionists, hell bent on preventing the functioning of government, eschewing compromise even with members of their own party?

Whether it’s true or not isn’t the point. With an eager media advancing that perception by gleefully reporting Senator Cruz’s every bombastic utterance, the efforts by McCain and other establishment figures in the party to temper the GOP image seems doomed to fail.

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/05/25/cru...han-the-budget/

McCain & his gang of "go along to get along" needs to move out of the way. Knowing how McCain operates, He'll go down kicking and screaming.

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Amidst the Republican cheer about scandals afflicting the Obama administration and Democrats, there is a far more interesting sideshow going on in Washington — one that threatens to tear the GOP apart right at the time they need to be unified in order to keep the House and take control of the Senate next year.

It’s the ongoing, destructive feud between two Senators representing different factions of the Republican Senate. John McCain representing the GOP establishment and Ted Cruz, darling of the Tea Party nationwide, have been going at it all week on the Senate floor.

The proximate cause of the sniping and backbiting has been the GOP establishment’s desire to move the budget recently passed by Senate Democrats to a conference committee. But Cruz, Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, and Rand Paul are blocking the motion because they believe the Democrats will try to slip a rise in the debt ceiling somewhere in the budget, thus denying conservatives the opportunity to use the debt as leverage in their efforts to get the congress on record to pass a balanced budget in 10 years.
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The real fight is for the very soul of the Republican party and what the public face of the GOP will be. Will Republicans be seen as ideologically rigid obstructionists, hell bent on preventing the functioning of government, eschewing compromise even with members of their own party?

Whether it’s true or not isn’t the point. With an eager media advancing that perception by gleefully reporting Senator Cruz’s every bombastic utterance, the efforts by McCain and other establishment figures in the party to temper the GOP image seems doomed to fail.

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/05/25/cru...han-the-budget/

McCain & his gang of "go along to get along" needs to move out of the way. Knowing how McCain operates, He'll go down kicking and screaming.

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You would think the conservative wing of the republican party would come out swinging about our country's debt.
How they are trying to be the responsible party, holding back to rein in spending.

They have let the media, democrats, and members like John McCain define them as obstructionist to Obama's agenda as if that's a bad thing.

I really hope there's more of them than the John McCains & Lindsay Grahams that think they are the rulers of the party and expect the others to fall in line. Kudo's to the ones that don't.

Mr Speaker and his yes men, Cantor and Ryan, whipped tarp and the stimulus. No those people are not for less spending. The so called Ryan budget relied on the voodoo promises of future congressional action, he was increasing spending at a slower rate. It was a lie, they believe in and support bigger government.

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Mr Speaker and his yes men, Cantor and Ryan, whipped tarp and the stimulus. No those people are not for less spending. The so called Ryan budget relied on the voodoo promises of future congressional action, he was increasing spending at a slower rate. It was a lie, they believe in and support bigger government.

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http://www.rinolist.org/2010/08/list-of-...voted-for-tarp/

Credic, one of the vew rules her is cross threading, something you are completely ignorant of, but then you are completely any way.

Tarp passed in october 2008, your love nancy became speaker january 2009.