>> What Cruz is doing has no chance of success but sure is getting him a lot of TV time.
And what if the vote for cloture didn’t reach the required majority which requires about 25% of Republican support?
You and a lot of establishment Republicans aren’t helping much with our limited “chance of success.”
Please help me. I keep hearing these RINO republicans, one on Hannity radio yesterday, saying that he would vote for cloture on Friday because he doesn’t want the GOP blamed for a govt shutdown. Explain to me the reality here.
If 25 % of republicans unite cloture doesn’t pass...then what happens? I fail to understand Cruz’s logic. How do we gain leverage? How do you force Harry Reid to put the original House Bill up for a vote? Do you specify that in he cloture vote, that voting for cloture is a vote to then vote on the original House bill?
If this is true....then why not block Reid. Let the govt shut down because Reid ad Obama would be shutting it down. The people want Obamacare defunded...then this is the way to do it.
Tell me where I am wrong here.