Here’s why Ted Cruz missed the final vote on Obama’s next attorney general

The Blaze ^ | Apr. 23, 2015 3:46pm | Pete Kasperowicz

[napscoordinator]

It drives me crazy when Senators can’t even work the little days that they actually work. He should be at work when Congress is in session. Did he put in a leave day? Is he being paid for his trip to Texas while everyone is working. Good Lord they have it good. No wonder they have a 9 percent approval rating.

[napscoordinator]

McCain actually went back to do his job when he was running. Although he did lose, he at least cared about the current job he was doing at the time. He never missed a vote.

[American Constitutionalist]

A protest non-vote against the corrupt political establishment.

[JimRed]

56-44 would have made a difference?

[Mastador1]

Is this another case of boner scheduling votes to undermine someone?

[dware]

He should have been there and voted. That’s his job. If it’s too much effort, then he should resign and run for president free of his obligations.

Lemme guess, you are hoping for another milqtoast RINO candidate that will lose because true Conservatives will either stay home or vote 3rd party?

[SoConPubbie]

It drives me crazy when Senators can’t even work the little days that they actually work. He should be at work when Congress is in session. Did he put in a leave day? Is he being paid for his trip to Texas while everyone is working. Good Lord they have it good. No wonder they have a 9 percent approval rating.

I see you are parroting the latest left-wing attack against Senator Cruz.

Must make you proud!

[napscoordinator]

I see I am parroting the latest American Tax Payer who pays his paycheck.

I am very proud.

[SoConPubbie]

I see I am parroting the latest American Tax Payer who pays his paycheck.

So, tell us once again how Cruz being there to vote for something that was already a fore-gone conclusion by the GOP-Establishment deals with the American Tax Payer and his/her paycheck?

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I’d rather have him miss that vote than flip flop on issues...

[ziravan]

As a citizen of Texas, Senator Cruz is my employee, not yours. He works at my pleasure, not yours. We’re very happy with his job performance, especially as it pertains to the current nomination and his attempts to stop it.

[MaxMax]

McCain actually went back to do his job when he was running.

True he did, and the MSM attacked him ruthlessly for doing that.
So anything and everything is going to be attacked. Bring it on.

McCain missed 971 of 9,526 roll call votes

He never missed a vote.

Oops, you missed your target there, Naps. Maybe you should check your facts, again.

[Lion Den Dan]

Oh B.S.!

Thank you SoConPubbie. I am suffering a case of polites this afternoon. You said it all for us.

[wolfman23601]

Then vote for Lindsey Graham

[RKBA Democrat]

Well, its my job as a citizen to vote as well. I rarely do so. Particularly when the end result isn’t in question.

He did the right thing. He was there for the real vote and skipped the show vote. The end result wasnkt in question.

[lulu16]

” Cruz slammed McConnell and Senate leaders for allowing for a vote.

“The Republican majority, if it so chose, could defeat this nomination,” he said. “I would note there are a few voters back home that are asking what exactly is the difference between a Democratic and Republican majority.”

The Texas senator added that he has asked leadership to block all of Obama’s executive and judicial nominees “unless and until the president rescinds his lawless amnesty.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/239878-senate-votes-to-confirm-lynch-as-attorney-general

[lulu16]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz delivered an impassioned speech on the Senate floor against confirming Loretta Lynch, calling her unsuitable to be attorney general.

Then he was the lone senator to skip the confirmation vote.
“We have a nominee who has told the United States Senate she is unwilling to impose any limits whatsoever on the authority of the President of the United States,” Cruz said. “In the next 20 months, we are sadly going to see more and more lawlessness, more recklessness, more abuse of power, more executive lawlessness.”

Cruz said that based on Lynch’s answers at her confirmation hearing, in which she supported President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration, “in my opinion render her unsuitable for confirmation as attorney general of the United States.”

He concluded his remarks at 11:23 a.m. EDT and cast a procedural vote against moving ahead on her nomination. When the roll was called at 1:37 p.m. for the final vote, Cruz was absent.”

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2015/04/23/texas-sen-cruz-criticizes-loretta-lynch-skips-ag-conformation-vote/

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Thanks.. I had already read all about that. I had a rather uneasy feeling she’d be confirmed but was really hoping she wouldn’t.

[tenger]

Well, since he's a United States Senator from Texas, we pay his salary. Please get your facts straight. If he were a Texas State Senator, then you pay it. Either way, he should NOT have missed the vote.

"He made his voice clear already"...yada yada.

"Why can't they vote electronically"...yada yada. That's not how they work it in that part of the Government. That's a different argument for a different day. Take it up with them before situations like this happens, not during.

You want to hold Ted as morally superior? Fine. Then just let him do his day job. That job is to vote when votes are held.

I'm still voting for him over all the rest of the yahoos because he's about as solid as you can get.

[EDINVA]

Boehner is Speaker of the House; this was a Senate vote (McConnell is the Majority Leader in the Senate).

If only for the visuals, Cruz should have taken a later plane; not voting to attend a fundraiser is an excuse no one here would accept from someone they don’t like.