Oh Really? Senate Dem Tells Tea Party Senator That He’s Acting Like a ‘Dictator’...
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Sen.
Mary Landrieu, D-La., scolded Tea Party Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, for
acting like a “dictator” by demanding that Senate Democrats promise not
to raise the debt limit during conference meetings with House
Republicans.
“We don’t have kings anymore,” Landrieu said in response to Lee on the Senate floor this afternoon. “We don’t have dictators anymore. We don’t have people with special powers . . . not anyone in this chamber is entitled to write the budget exactly the way they want it.”
“We don’t have kings anymore,” Landrieu said in response to Lee on the Senate floor this afternoon. “We don’t have dictators anymore. We don’t have people with special powers . . . not anyone in this chamber is entitled to write the budget exactly the way they want it.”
Lee took to the
floor to oppose moving to a budget conference between House and Senate
lawmakers that could be used to raise the debt ceiling... Continue reading via The Washington Examiner...
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