Senate passes debt-ceiling plan in blow to conservatives

[LoganIsAwesome]

[QUOTE]Washington (CNN) -- The Senate voted Wednesday to avert at least one chronic Washington political crisis for at least a year.

With a snowstorm bearing down on the capital, it approved a House-passed measure that allows the government to borrow more money to pay its bills through March 2015.

The White House signaled that President Barack Obama would sign the legislation, so the Senate vote was the last hurdle to resolving the debt-ceiling issue until after the November congressional elections.

Wednesday's votes were a blow to tea party conservatives who oppose any kind of increase in federal borrowing.

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, a leader of the GOP tea party wing, mounted a filibuster to force a 60-vote threshold for proceeding on the measure.

However, about a dozen of Republicans joined Democrats to overcome the filibuster on a 67-31 procedural vote that avoided another politically damaging legislative impasse over spending.[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/12/politics/senate-debt-ceiling/index.html[/url]

[Paul McCartney]

I love how extreme Cruz is and how he keeps trying to steer the ship into an iceburg but the Republican party is like. Dude, new guy. Fuck off.

[O Cheerios O]

[QUOTE=Paul McCartney;43887228]I love how extreme Cruz is and how he keeps trying to steer the ship into an iceburg but the Republican party is like. Dude, new guy. Fuck off.[/QUOTE]

When even hardcore Republicans are doing the equivalent of blunty telling you to fuck off, then it is time to re-evaluate your political career.

[Paul McCartney]

[QUOTE=O Cheerios O;43887259]When even hardcore Republicans are doing the equivalent of blunty telling you to fuck off, then it is time to re-evaluate your political career.[/QUOTE]

I just love how all these tea party new comers think they can hold sway over long term senators. It's silly.