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CRUZ or LOSE!
Posted on 05/01/2015 5:04:04 PM PDT by yuffy
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Thursday that his absence during last week’s confirmation of Attorney General Loretta Lynch was the same as voting against her.
“There was no significance to the final vote, and I had a scheduling conflict,” Cruz said, according to media reports.
“Under the Senate rules, absence is the equivalent of a no vote,” the 2016 GOP presidential candidate added. “It is identical procedurally.”
Senators confirmed Lynch as the nation’s new attorney general on April 23 in a 56-43 vote. Cruz, a notable opponent of her nomination, said Thursday he abstained because a majority of Republicans had backed her selection for the position. “I flew back to Washington to speak on the Senate floor, passionately speaking against confirming Loretta Lynch,” he said. “But unfortunately, leadership chose to go a different direction."
Lynch’s confirmation ended a standoff over her qualifications lasting over 160 days. Cruz was the only senator absent during the final vote.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) subtly rebuked Cruz’s decision in a tweet issued on April 25. In it, he discounted Cruz’s earlier explanation that a cloture vote over Lynch’s candidacy was the only vote that mattered.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
If you don’t hold any Republicans feet to the fire thy drift left real quick. All Republicans need it.
He screwed up and should have been there to vote. This is not complicated and that is why something simple like this resonates deeply because people know he was not doing his job that he was elected to do.
Too stupid for words.
Take a good look at this guy folks. This is why we get Romney and Bhoner and Mitch.
Look at my posts. I have always been 100% against Romney, Boehner, and Mitch. That’s why I am trying to fight to make sure Cruz isn’t McConnellized.
Read my posting history. You won’t find many FRiends more outspoken and solidly against sodomite marriage or even sodomy as a social evil. Don’t try to tell me how leftist I am on this issue.
And Cruz has been on the right-conservative-side of every one of those votes. He speaks clearly and openly on the issues. One man in Congress can’t do much more. He had almost the whole of the GOPe against him during the government shutdown, McCain called him names. He’s one Senator.
It turns out that it might not have been the right move, but not because Cruz was wrong on the issue, but because of the political hay which is being made of it. What a thing to make hay of, when the country is going down the toilet, and he’s the best there is, by a long chalk.
And to do it to make shit up and slam your nonsense him for what?
I hope no one is stupid enough to take you seriously. your post history puts you on the lib side of a lot of issues.
You are dreaming. I am pro-life, pro-marriage, pro-Constitution. That's lib to you?
Read what I wrote. I never said anything about your position. I said the state’s rights argument is a cop out that already lost.
If you knew me in person, you wouldn’t have said any of that nonsense you said in your first paragraph.
As for your second paragraph, you already know that I completely disagree.
Enjoy supporting your candidate. I do hope you won’t have to deal with anymore of his Flip Flops.
Dave, I sincerely believe that you should and will vote your conscience. I also know that I will vote mine when I vote for Ted Cruz.
Have a fun 2016.
Cheers.....
[When did he cave on sodomite marriage? What did he say?]
LET’S GET THE RECORD STRAIGHT...
Steve Deace: Cruz: Amend the Constitution to defend marriage
04/24/15
Ted Cruz issued the following press release on Friday: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, yesterday filed the Restoration of Marriage Amendment and the Protect Marriage from the Courts Act to guarantee the American people’s right to define marriage as the union of one man and… (excerpt)
https://www.tedcruz.org/press/steve-deace-cruz-amend-the-constitution-to-defend-marriage/
But it’s not a leftist position. I am staunchly opposed to sodomite “marriage” and even to societal acceptance, so-called “tolerance” of sodomy. It has ripped the fabric of this society into shreds. I am also not a pragmatist. But in the current political climate, I would be willing to accept States’ Rights on this issue, if that’s all we could get. It wouldn’t last, I know that, but it would be a rollback from the other alternative. As a Bible believer in the end times, I don’t believe that we can hold back what prophecy tells us is coming, forever. But we can do what we can do.
Thank you for that, that’s the kind of information I needed. Now, who will blame Cruz if the rest of Congress isn’t on board? What does he do, some kind of senatorial executive order?
The only vote that mattered was the clothure vote. The rest was just noice. There is nothing for him to step up about.
[Now, who will blame Cruz if the rest of Congress isn’t on board?]
I am for TED CRUZ because he can see a dead end vote and make a detour to make an impact for his causes - in this case marriage.
IMHO he’s being paid to be a Senator. If that conflicts with his campaigning he should resign.
I’ll probably still vote for him though in a primary...if it counts.
Cloture was the vote.
Ted Cruz knows how to pick his battles you on the other hand have picked a stupid one.
The battle was over on the nomination and he had no reason to stay because there was not one person present at the final vote who did not know where he stood and the eventual outcome was also already known to everyone, I would have left too.
The people of this nation are tired of disingenuous political theater and that is the game you continue to play here.
You’re grasping at straws.
I stand with Ted
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