Fellow Conservatives:
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) is attacking conservatives again. This time, he’s upset at their efforts to stop a backdoor increase in the debt limit.
As you know, the House and Senate each passed budget resolutions earlier this year. Neither budget included an increase in the debt limit, yet House and Senate leaders want to air-drop one into a final agreement negotiated behind closed doors.
They want to do this because it allows them to avoid an open debate on the issue and pass it in the Senate with only 51 votes rather than the 60 votes normally required.
Thankfully, Senators Rand Paul (R-KY), Mike Lee (R-UT), and Ted Cruz (R-TX) are working to stop this secret plan to raise the debt limit.
They have objected to Harry Reid’s request to create the budget conference several times and are insisting on an agreement to keep it from being used to increase the debt limit.
Yesterday, John McCain defended Harry Reid on the Senate floor and criticized Rand Paul, Mike Lee, and Ted Cruz. McCain called their efforts “bizarre” and “out of line”.
What’s out of line is a Republican senator working with the Democrats to raise the debt limit while nobody is looking.
This raises a couple questions:
First, how much longer can we tolerate John McCain and his hostility toward conservatives and our principles? He already lashed out at Senators Paul, Lee, and Cruz earlier this year, calling them “wacko birds” for standing up for the Constitution. Now he’s at it again.
POLL QUESTION: If John McCain runs for re-election again in 2016, should SCF work to find a strong candidate to defeat him in the Republican primary?
Second, where is Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) while all of this is happening? As the Republican leader, shouldn’t he also be fighting to stop this backdoor increase in the debt limit?
The outcome of the upcoming debt limit debate is a test of McConnell’s leadership. He worked with President Obama to raise the debt limit in 2011 and he helped the president raise taxes and fund Obamacare earlier this year. Americans need more principled leadership from him.
We’re grateful that Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Mike Lee are standing strong. If the debt limit is raised, it must be done through regular order where it can be fully debated and where conservatives can demand a balanced budget and the full repeal of Obamacare.
Thank you for supporting the principles of freedom that make this country great.
Best regards,

Matt Hoskins
Executive Director
Senate Conservatives Fund
May 22nd, 2013 @ 10:08 am
Protests with less than 1,000 peope are a waste of time and have no effect.
May 22nd, 2013 @ 11:04 am
Attention All Arpaio-enablers:
You have twelve days to prepare for
{ { { { { { {{{ORLYGEDDON}}} } } } } } }
May 22nd, 2013 @ 2:22 pm
Hopefully Arpai and the “do nothing posse” will be careful.
FBI just shot a terrorist linked to the Boston Marathon.
So in 11 days we will know if the “do nothing gang” has done something or the fbi has done something OR BOTH NOTHING..
I THINK NOT…
BUSINESS AS USUAL…
MOVE ALONG..
NOTHING TO SEE..
ONLY THE PRESENT MIRACLE OF SCANDALS..
MAY 31ST APPROACHETH..
May 22nd, 2013 @ 2:48 pm
Let’s cut through the BS
“Off with his head”
(Figuratively speaking of course)
May 22nd, 2013 @ 3:26 pm
McCain has sold out America as well.
Judgement day awaits this Traitor as well.
Disgusting
May 22nd, 2013 @ 4:10 pm
McCain, is past the time to go
May 22nd, 2013 @ 4:32 pm
Let’s all thank the “gang of 3” for doing what’s right! Good for: Paul, Lee, and Cruz!
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Kathy: “(((((OrlyGeddon?)))))” Okay…lol! I love it!
May 22nd, 2013 @ 4:44 pm
And…Hey, McCain, you were a Patriot, ONCE! So what has happened to make you betray America?
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You Rinos are a disgrace to our Country! We expect that kind of behavior from the (D) Children, that can’t function with protecting America against all enemies, here and there!
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All of you should be taken down as traitors!
May 22nd, 2013 @ 8:18 pm
mccain is a stone cold sociopath, treasonous traitor and that’s a fact.
May 23rd, 2013 @ 10:42 am
McCain and Graham need to just change the R to a D and get it over with.
I bet McCain knows all about the Usurper and that he’s not eligible, but then again neither was McCain. Panama Dept of the interior stated Colon Panama, where McCain was born was NOT part of the US territory Canal project.
May 23rd, 2013 @ 12:45 pm
More DHIMMITUDE in the West:
British soldiers being told NOT to wear their uniforms off the base.
We have had FORT HOOD “workplace” violence which is a term meant to run cover for Jihad, and
the UK now has to fear Islamist Hoodlum terrorists on its own soil.
This is the Inversion of Culture which is the beginning of classic Islamic Triumphalism and Dhimmitude.
Unwittingly, Boehner and McCain and any other Republicans or Democrats who support the Amnesty bill are helping usher in DHIMMITUDE.
It is disguised with terms such as “humanitarian” or “egalitarian.”
The enemy waits with patience and knows Exactly WHAT it is witnessing…and their mouths are salivating, rest assured.
May 23rd, 2013 @ 7:41 pm
I’ll show up, just tell me when!
I need to go anyways and talk to Senator Mikulski about an email I got from her stating that Obama’s BC has been validated as authentic by experts. If she’s got this evidence, it will be helpful in my case in MD. I GUARANTEE you she has NO evidence and that will make her look very bad if she can’t produce the evidence…it will prove that she bold faced lied to her constituent!
June 22nd, 2013 @ 5:04 pm
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