[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[SoConPubbie]

    Ted Cruz Ping!

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    CRUZ or LOSE!

[mrsmel]

I don’t care that he missed the vote, it’s not like he didn’t make it perfectly clear where he stood on her before the final vote.

[mrsmel]

And it’s not like it wasn’t already plain, after he made his opposition perfectly clear, that his vote would not be at all decisive.

[Blood of Tyrants]

It was a done deal. The GOP traded a non-controverial bill to aid rape victims that the Rats had been holding up for a vote on Lynch.

[Carl Vehse]

Cruz and most other Republicans voted against ending debate, but 20 Republicans TRAITORS voted with Democrats and allowed Lynch to get to a final vote.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Cruz was in the Senate for the key vote on whether to end debate on Lynch’s nomination. The so-called “cloture vote” in the Senate is in fact the critical vote, since an agreement to end debate needs 60 votes, and once that happens, it’s usually a cinch to find the 51 votes needed to confirm a nominee or pass a bill.

The only thing that matters are the "Ays." The "nay" votes count for nothing.

So sure, his vote would have some symbolic value. OTOH, how many voted "nay" because Boehner gave them permission?

This is nit-picking. Ted did the heavy-lifting on the cloture vote.

[GraceG]

In this age of technology why can’t senators “remote vote”?

[AmusedBystander]

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.

[RC one]

Well, it’s not as if he can just sit back and rely on the big donors to pave his way to the Presidency. like a couple of other candidates.

[RitaOK]

Cloture is the big vote, that’s for sure. We had that argument already, in ‘12, against Cornyn and McCain and stupid McConnell.

Remember, they would trick constituents with voting yes on cloture and no on the vote, so they could say they voted AGAINST something. (Do I have that backwards? Second thoughts here.)

Anyway, it was learned loud and clear that cloture votes darn sure matter, and that actual votes can camouflage outcomes.

However, was there an earlier thread counting votes in the senate? Rand Paul was the best at attending the vote, whereas Cruz was absent a lot of the time.

Right now is not the campaign, but the money race. Everybody shut up and sing! lol!

[DoughtyOne]

Good luck Ted. And please, try to lie just a little... /Sarcasim

We're headed into 2016, and it's the year of the Conservative Liar. /Sarcasim

Get with it TED! Don't you want to be competitive? /Sarcasim

[Jane Long]

Thanks for posting this. All the Cruz bashers will maybe get why his final vote wouldn’t matter, regardless.

Good explanation of why it didn’t.

[RedStateRocker]

In this day and age of computers and phones can ANYONE explain why our congresscritters have to be present?

[editor-surveyor]

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So much foe “Republican” control of the Senate.

Lynch belongs in a penitentiary.
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[conservaKate]

“Cruz also suggested that Republicans who supported Lynch would have to explain their votes back in their home states.”

If you’re going to call out others on their vote ... mayhap you should show up for the final vote?? Since the beginning of this year, w/ a R majority ... Cruz has missed more votes than almost anyone else because he’s too busy running for POTUS.

If Cruz wants to be POTUS ... he should quit current position and run full time. If Cruz thinks the Senate is beyond redemption ... then leave it.

I am NOT saying missing this vote is a reason to not vote for Cruz. I AM saying Cruz should back up his rhetoric with actions. Skipping out on the final vote that Cruz himself says voters will look at to go to a fund raiser? Optics aren’t looking so good. And the MSM is playing this up big time.

Lastly....if Cruz wins the nomination ... Cruz WILL need the support of the Republican establishment for the general election... it’s just the way it is. Cruz is not going to win support by calling out fellow R’s on a vote he, Cruz, doesn’t show up for.

[Unmarked Package]

Once again, Sen. John Cornyn (RINO-TX) plays the old DC Double-cross. He votes for cloture knowing full well there are enough votes to confirm Lynch and then turns around to vote NO on the final confirmation vote to pad his “conservative voting record” for the next election. Cornyn is such a disappointment and disgrace to the conservative state of Texas.

[MaxMax]

They waited for Cruz to board a plane before holding the Vote?

Am I reading this right? Talk about dirty tracks if this is how McSenator intended it.

[kidd]

Cruz’s vote wouldn’t have mattered. To informed people, he did all that he could.

But I think his skipping on the vote will hurt him more than the event in Texas will help him.

To uninformed people, he skipped out of his responsibility. The lesser GOP candidates (Santorum, Christie, etc) will use it against him.

[SharpRightTurn]

“Lynch received 66 votes on the vote [cloture] that mattered”, though only 56 voted for her confirmation.

So 10 Senators played the old bait and switch game to fool their constituents. I did not look up the two votes to see who the conmen were who voted for cloture but then voted against Lynch, but assume they were all Republicans, trying to fool their low information Republican primary voters.

[American Constitutionalist]

MITCH MCONNEL’S CABAL AGAINST TED CRUZ !!!