Remember when Congressman Joe Wilson yelled, "You lie!" to Obama at the State of the Union address?  That was the first time a Republican had confronted Obama directly about his falsehoods.  Now Ted Cruz has taken a similar step, saying that Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell lied to him when McConnell said that he would let the Export-Import Bank die. Senator Ted Cruz, the sometimes-incendiary Texan running for the Republican presidential nomination, took to the Senate floor on Friday to call his party’s majority leader a liar in an extraordinary public airing of grievance. Mr. Cruz said allowing that vote on the measure, which will almost certainly pass, was “an absolute demonstration that not only what he told every Republican senator, but what he told the press over and over and over again, was a simple lie.” He detailed what he said was a closed-door confrontation he had with Mr. McConnell in May, after supporters of the...(Read Full Post)