“I have nothing to gain from delaying this vote by one or two days,”
Spoken like a true self serving lawyer.
So the filibuster last month was just for publicity?
What a train wreck. Obama played these fools like a fiddle. In the end they were more concerned about reopening the monuments than stopping Obamacare. Idiots.
Self-serving?
What exactly were you doing that rose above what he did again?
And no, freeping polls and shaking your fist at the computer doesn’t count.
Oh, shut up you pompous twit...
Wow idiot, are you clueless? We had nothing walking into this. Boner was going to cave outright in exchange for nothing, Cruz standing up gave us only a few month extension and income verification for Zerocare. Now we wait for the frustration and anger to rise while it kicks in, screwing everybody.
Cruz played the Dems and the GOPe against the TP’ers and put everyone on record for the primaries. So the question is, what are YOU doing to do to get off your arse to make a conservative majority happen?
Somebody ban these KossKid trolls.
If you remember, Cruz was asking his fellow GOP Senators to vote against cloture. They didn’t do it, and that was all the Dems needed to see that the Republicans were fractured and would cave into them in the end. The eventual outcome of this fight was decided 2 days after the filibuster when the GOP Senate caved.
The long shot result of the filibuster was stopping Obamacare. But the guaranteed result was in drawing a line between those GOP candidates willing to fight for their principles and the wimps, as well as the just plain batsh*t crazy ones like McCain and Peter King. We need to primary those people out if we’re ever to get a coalition who can actually get things done.
At least Cruz starting the fight got us something. The income monitoring for Obamacare is a better concession, in terms of managing the deficit, than delaying the mandate or taking away Congress’ subsidies. And we live to fight again another day since this is a short-term deal.
Spoken like a true self serving lawyer.
He would be the only vote against cloture; even Rand Paul would have voted against him. And if he did another filibuster on his own, he would have been shut down by Reid after those two days, just like the last time.