Thanks for the later comments as well. I copied them to my FB page (me only) for ammo later. Facebook (under “only me”) makes a handy debate book reference.
I'm checking more of this material online.
Remember this grilling of Ted Cruz by Bret Baer when Cruz would not accept Baer's premise, when Cruz stood firm explaining how and why he set up the poison pill, and why it succeeded?
(And from all the quotes linked above in this thread, everyone knew it was a "poison pill.")
(this is a good autopsy by Jim Geraghty)
Dec 17, 2015: Cruz: My Amendments 'Succeeded in Defeating the Rubio-Schumer Amnesty Bill'
[BIG SNIP of exchange between Baer and Cruz]
Geraghty: "............... Some are asking why make a big deal about Cruz's slipperiness here; surely no one thinks he's a closet amnesty supporter. Surely, Rubio offered a bigger and more consequential lie while defending the Gang of Eight bill in April 2013: "What I said throughout my campaign was that I was against a blanket amnesty. And I was, and this is not blanket amnesty," (No, he didn't add the 'blanket' qualifier at any point in his 2010 Senate campaign.).........."