1 posted on
05/01/2015 5:04:04 PM PDT by
yuffy
To: yuffy
He was elected to be a Senator.
What was more important than that? The fact he is revisiting this means he knows he screwed up. Time to step up.
To: yuffy
Corny is terrible, but for once he is right.
To: yuffy
We were told this was no big deal, so why is he still trying to justify it?
4 posted on
05/01/2015 5:09:13 PM PDT by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: yuffy
It is certainly the opposite of “present.”
5 posted on
05/01/2015 5:10:34 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: yuffy
While I think Cruz should have been there to vote, I do think he is providing a great service. And that is exposing CLOTURE as the real vote in the Senate.
He exposed this in the Health Care/ShutDown situation, and in several other votes.
Senators like to hide behind cloture, so they can have it both ways, allow what they want to pass but make it look like they’re against it with their final vote.
Cruz is drawing a great deal of attention to cloture votes. And this attention is very welcome!
6 posted on
05/01/2015 5:11:17 PM PDT by
cotton1706
(ThisRepublic.net)
To: yuffy
So the vote would have been 55-44 in favor of confirmation.
Anybody trying to use this is a moron.
7 posted on
05/01/2015 5:12:58 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: yuffy
Absence isn’t a “no” vote, it is a “no vote.”
10 posted on
05/01/2015 5:16:47 PM PDT by
jacknhoo
(Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
To: yuffy
11 posted on
05/01/2015 5:16:51 PM PDT by
jimbo123
To: yuffy
“There was no significance to the final vote, and I had a scheduling conflict,” Cruz said
*****
Does anyone know what the ‘scheduling conflict’ was?
Cruz is correct in that not voting is the same as a ‘no’ vote as they are
trying to get the necessary number of ‘aye’ votes for passage.
14 posted on
05/01/2015 5:22:27 PM PDT by
deport
To: yuffy
Yep. Why bother participating in the Senate farce when there are bigger fish to fry?
CRUZ OR LOSE 2016!
17 posted on
05/01/2015 5:26:32 PM PDT by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: yuffy
Senator Cruz’s vote wouldn’t have mattered at all. The fix was already in once cloture passed. People who are trying to make political hay out of this (against Cruz), are simply wrong.
19 posted on
05/01/2015 5:31:34 PM PDT by
CitizenUSA
(Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
To: yuffy
Cruz on Loretta Lynch: Absence is a no vote Silence implies consent.
To: yuffy
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.
57 posted on
05/01/2015 7:27:32 PM PDT by
onedoug
To: yuffy; All
59 posted on
05/01/2015 8:04:16 PM PDT by
Nifster
To: yuffy; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; MountainDad; aposiopetic; ...
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CRUZ or LOSE!60 posted on
05/01/2015 11:05:06 PM PDT by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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