Redstate
Finger
Lickin’ Frauds
By
Erick Erickson
September
24th, 2013
Within
hours of Liz Cheney, now a candidate for the Senate in Wyoming,
announcing her support of Ted Cruz’s filibuster, Senator Mike Enzi,
who Cheney is primarying, took to the floor of the United States
Senate and declared he stood with Ted Cruz.
Pat
Roberts, the elderly Senator from Kansas who may soon be getting a
stiff primary challenge, stiffly stood on the floor of the United
States Senate to show he too stood with Ted Cruz.
Rand
Paul, after NBC News reported he may disagree with Cruz’s
filibuster threat, went to the floor of the Senate and stood with Ted
Cruz.
Meanwhile,
John Cornyn and Mitch McConnell and Lamar Alexander and other
Republican Senators are leaking attacks against Cruz on background.
They complained to reporters about Cruz suggesting they were cowards.
They did so off the record and in the shadows.
Mitch
McConnell, instead of standing with Cruz on the floor of the Senate,
participated in a teletownhall in which he told listeners the only
way to stop Obamacare was for him to be Senate Majority Leader.
[update: this information came after the initial post]
Ted
Cruz and Mike Lee will not get the forty-one votes they need to
sustain their filibuster. They will be betrayed by Republican
senators who are willing to fund Obamacare while claiming to vote
against it. But in this filibuster and in their brilliant strategy,
they have exposed Republicans who will not fight. They have exposed
Republicans who are so desperate for their own reelection they will
say or do anything when they could not bother in off years. They have
shown Republicans that there are Republicans who are willing to stand
up to Barack Obama and to the cowards within their own party.
They
have also exposed a lot of people on the outside as frauds. To be
sure, there are conservatives who have legitimate reasons to disagree
with this strategy. But there are a whole lot who have been exposed
as finger lickin’ frauds — willing to put their finger to the
wind of beltway opinion to chart their course.
The
Beltway Republican pundits bellyaching over Cruz and Lee fighting the
fight others promised to fight is just a fart in the maelstrom of
conservatives united against both Democrats and the finger lickin’
frauds within the Republican Party who talk a good game then fold
like cheap suits...
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