For a Senator who is a faction leader and a Presidential candidate to take to the floor of the Senate and call his Majority leader a lying untrustworthy enemy of his colleagues and the people is almost without precedent.
This is bigger than the “you lie” during the State of the Union, IMHO.
McConnell will be stroking out after this. Tomorrow will be interesting.
This was a direct sniper shot but its far from the first time Ted Cruz has been openly opposing the GOP.
He fought against the Bush administration in the Supreme Court as Texas Solicitor general.
Look at the timing: the bill comes up on a Friday, Ted Cruz launches, and now McConnell has all weekend to `formulate a response’.
I predict that it will be McConnell & not Cruz who appears on the Sunday food fights. No theater with Ted Cruz; he said what he said & will stand by it. Dullsville for ratings.
McConnell will have time to cool off. Interviewed right now, he’d probably say, “That little Cuban bastard will wish his name was Ricky Ricardo before I’m finished with him!!!”