Your points are well taken — especially the “Turn Now.”
It is a shame that we have people in Congress that are so weak kneed that it takes a freshman Senator to start a rukus and then his own party is the most uncomfortable.
The GOPe long for the good old days in the “loyal opposition” where nobody slammed them. It’s so much easier to glide along in 2nd place than to struggle. Cruz is upsetting their designs.