Current Events > Ted Cruz calls for McConnell to step down. Again

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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4451239-cruz-says-its-time-for-mcconnell-to-step-down-as-gop-leader/

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), pointing to what he called the mismanagement of a border security and Ukraine funding package, said Tuesday its time for Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to step down as the Senate GOP leader.

Cruz was one of 10 Republican senators who voted against McConnells reelection as Senate minority leader after the 2022 election and he is a longtime critic of McConnells leadership.

While Cruzs desire to replace McConnell as leader isnt new, he has stepped up his criticism of the veteran Kentucky lawmaker in anticipation that the border security deal negotiated by Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), whom McConnell tapped for the task, would fall flat with GOP senators.
Asked at a press conference whether its time for McConnell to go, Cruz replied: I think it is.

Everyone here also supported to the leadership challenge to Mitch McConnell in November [2022,] he said at a press conference with Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), JD Vance (R-Ohio), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) and Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.).

I think a Republican leader should actually lead this conference and should advance the priorities of Republicans, he said.

Asked about Cruzs comments Tuesday afternoon, McConnell quipped that he wasnt shocked to hear that his Texas colleague is criticizing him again.
I think we can all agree that Sen. Cruz is not a fan, McConnell replied with deadpan humor.

Cruz earlier Tuesday said he urged Senate Republicans after the 2022 election to elect a new leader after Republicans lost the Senate race in Pennsylvania and saw their minority shrink to 49 seats.

We lost a seat in the Senate and we barely got a majority in the House. And I stood up and said in any ordinary organization when youre faced with failure if youre running a business and you lose $50 million you dont just say, Everythings great, lets keep doing it. No, you sit down and say, What are we doing wrong? Cruz said Tuesday.

He said the Senate border security bill was designed to lose and declared it is a plan Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is thrilled with.

Cruz says Congress does not need to pass legislation to reform the nations asylum laws and give the president power to close the border, arguing that President Biden has all the tools to shut the border without help from Congress.

But he called for congressional action on the border in 2019, when former President Trump was in office.

Cruz tweeted in July 2019 that the only way to end what at the time called the crisis at the border was for Congress to stop the political posturing and solve the problem.

Cruz and McConnell have a history of battling over strategy going back to 2013, when Cruz encouraged House conservatives to oppose any government funding bill that did not repeal the Affordable Care Act.

The standoff resulted in a 16-day government shutdown, which McConnell later declared was a political loser for the Republican Party.

A Senate GOP aide dismissed Cruzs call for McConnell to step down as nothing new.

The Texas senators comments Tuesday criticizing McConnell and the Senate GOP leadership got support from Vance, who joined him on stage for a press conference to criticize the border deal.

I want to echo everything that Ted has said. I think all of us has made this argument: The leadership really screwed this up, he said.

I think they made a series of political arguments that were never going to actually fly. They knew or at least should have known that this bill was never actually going to get there, he said.

Certainly on the Ukraine question, I think leadership is massively out of touch with Republican voters. We are not as a Republican Party behind unlimited, unaccounted for aid to Ukraine without any goals in mind, Vance said.

Broken clock.

...with Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), JD Vance (R-Ohio), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) and Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.).

With Ted Cruz being the free square, that's easily a Senate Asshole Bingo.

Ted should also step down and submit himself for incarceration.

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Imagine being such a vile piece of filth that Mitch fucking McConnell isn't a shitty enough person for you

SaikyoStyle posted...

Ted should also step down and submit himself for incarceration.

Or run for something in Cancun.

It's very difficult to get me to root for Mitch McConnell in a political fight.
But Ted Cruz is definitely one of those rare abhorrent creatures that will get me to do it.

Can they both step down?

darkace77450 posted...

With Ted Cruz being the free square, that's easily a Senate Asshole Bingo.

Paul is the free square, not Cruz.

He wants to replace turtle with someone even worse.

And they might succeed in replacing him with someone more bigoted, but they won't find someone more shrewd and conniving. The current GOP rejects any and all intelligence to their own detriment.

They should both step down into the pits of hell

mercurydude posted...

He wants to replace turtle with someone even worse.

And they might succeed in replacing him with someone more bigoted, but they won't find someone more shrewd and conniving. The current GOP rejects any and all intelligence to their own detriment.

This will be the end result regardless, same as it was with the speaker position. The GOP is only growing more and more radicalized in the name of their lord and savior Trump.

McConnell will never retire. He's going to be in the Senate until he drops dead at 150 years old or however long his species of turtle lives.

mercurydude posted...

He wants to replace turtle with someone even worse.

And they might succeed in replacing him with someone more bigoted, but they won't find someone more shrewd and conniving. The current GOP rejects any and all intelligence to their own detriment.

Agree. They might find someone "better" in their eyes, but that person wouldn't be as shrewd at working the system. That's actually a good thing for the country, since the GOP sucks ass but it's stupid for Cruz to argue for. McConnell knows what he's doing, unfortunately.

Cruz would probably be perfectly happy if Tuberville or someone of that caliber led the Senate GOP.

SaikyoStyle posted...

Ted should also step down and submit himself for incarceration.

dont like Cruz much myself, but what would he be in jail for again?

option B is, McConnell steps down, Cruz takes the lead and the gop burns from his worse leadership.

texanfan27 posted...

dont like Cruz much myself, but what would he be in jail for again?

Conspiracy against the United States government. Or are we pretending he wasn't party to the attempted coup on January 6? No, not that one, the other one...the non-violent one.

darkace77450 posted...

Conspiracy against the United States government. Or are we pretending he wasn't party to the attempted coup on January 6? No, not that one, the other one...the non-violent one.

ok, I was thinking there was something he alone did.

1/6 was a party wide issue that should have forced the GOP into jail agreed.

Put them both in a pit, let them fight it out. Place some bets on it, watch two human sized piles of shit go at it, sell tickets. Fun for the whole family.

Why isn't Cruz in prison for his part in the insurrection

texanfan27 posted...

dont like Cruz much myself, but what would he be in jail for again?

option B is, McConnell steps down, Cruz takes the lead and the gop burns from his worse leadership.

Insurrection.

Has he finally found someone turtley enough for Mitchs turtle club?

CADE_FOSTER posted...

Why isn't Cruz in prison for his part in the insurrection

He should have to answer questions about the "independent commission" he wanted to set up that would have stolen the election.

https://news.yahoo.com/bombshell-audio-shows-ted-cruz-001854911.html

January 6th kind of blew that story off the radar.

mercurydude posted...

He wants to replace turtle with someone even worse.

And they might succeed in replacing him with someone more bigoted, but they won't find someone more shrewd and conniving. The current GOP rejects any and all intelligence to their own detriment.

Rumor if replaced it would be Scott.

We lost a seat in the Senate and we barely got a majority in the House. And I stood up and said in any ordinary organization when youre faced with failure if youre running a business and you lose $50 million you dont just say, Everythings great, lets keep doing it. No, you sit down and say, What are we doing wrong? Cruz said Tuesday.

The lack of awarenessis stunning, yet not at all surprising.

UnsteadyOwl posted...

McConnell will never retire. He's going to be in the Senate until he drops dead at 150 years old or however long his species of turtle lives.

Him and Kissinger probably spawned from the same hell turtle

Cocaine Mitch ain't stepping down

"We lost a seat in the Senate and we barely got a majority in the House. And I stood up and said in any ordinary organization when youre faced with failure if youre running a business and you lose $50 million you dont just say, Everythings great, lets keep doing it. No, you sit down and say, What are we doing wrong? Cruz said Tuesday."

Usually the CEO fires all the QA people, a buncha other random people, and gets a raise when that happens.

Also it was Trump promoting novice lunatics like Dr Oz and Kari Lake that blew the majority for them more then anything the elderly mutant enabler turtle did.

No, you sit down and say, What are we doing wrong? Cruz said Tuesday.

https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/727604522156228608?lang=en

darkace77450 posted...

https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/727604522156228608?lang=en

The last time Graham said anything reasonable.

Mitch won't step down, he'll just turtle up and stay put.

I dont think a senate leader who just wants to burn everything to the ground would go over well. That sort of thing is easier to get away with in the house.

uwnim posted...

I dont think a senate leader who just wants to burn everything to the ground would go over well. That sort of thing is easier to get away with in the house.

The next GOP Senate leader after McConnell will be a "watch the world burn" maniac. It's all the GOP has left these days, especially in the younger (and thereby more rabid) GOP members of Congress.

EPR-radar posted...

The next GOP Senate leader after McConnell will be a "watch the world burn" maniac. It's all the GOP has left these days, especially in the younger (and thereby more rabid) GOP members of Congress.

We may find out sooner rather than later. His term as Minority Leader ends in January. He's got 2 more years on his seat after that, but it's clear he's not favored by the MAGA crowd. Trump even insulted his wife racially.

EPR-radar posted...

The next GOP Senate leader after McConnell will be a "watch the world burn" maniac. It's all the GOP has left these days, especially in the younger (and thereby more rabid) GOP members of Congress.

This new crop of Republicans is so ignorant to politics, they will simply grind Congress to a further halt than it already is, just like the Republican House has currently done. Something like 3 bills passed the House last year. That's a ridiculously small number. Expect even fewer bills once Republicans take back the Senate, because they'll never get 60 votes to pass their blatantly fascist directives.

Ted Cruz needs to step down.

Ironically, McConnell legalizing hemp has done wonders for the cannabis industry.