Ted Cruz calls out GOP leadership after Senate gives in to Democrats’ demands on DHS funding bill

The Blaze ^ | February 24, 2015 | PETE KASPEROWICZ

[Political Junkie Too]

I don't understand why Cruz says one thing and then votes for the thing he said he wouldn't.

It probably has to do with the Senate rules, especially Senate Rule XIII - Reconsideration of a vote.

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Paragraph 1 states that when a question has been decided by the Senate, any Senator voting with the prevailing side or who has not voted may move a reconsideration. This may occur on the same day or on either of the next two days of actual session. If the Senate refuses to reconsider such a motion, if a motion is withdrawn by leave of the Senate, or if upon reconsideration the Senate shall affirm its first decision, no further motion to reconsider shall be in order unless by unanimous consent.

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On procedural votes, they will vote with the likely winning side so as to keep their option for calling for a reconsideration open.

-PJ

[Georgia Girl 2]

Ted Cruz is not now and never was going to vote for a clean DHS funding bill. He is totally opposed to it.

Ted Cruz is now and always has been the only possible GOP presidential candidate who unequivocally (that means clear and unambiguous) opposes any kind of amnesty for illegal aliens.

[Ronniesque]

“If the House does this, and I don't see why the House wouldn't add language blocking Obama’s amnesty, it only takes 51 votes to pass the House amended version of the bill in the Senate. This seems like a perfect way to make end runs around Dem filibusters.”

If so, that would be golden. I haven't heard this discussed anywhere else, at least not yet.

[CPT Clay]

Thank you for this:

OURTH—AND FORGOTTEN AND NOT PC—VERSE OF NATIONAL ANTHEM
“O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and war’s desolation Bles’t with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land Praise the Pow’r that hath made and preserved us a nation Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just And this be our motto: “In God is our trust!””
Francis Scott Key