Posted on 04/23/2015 1:21:56 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Edited on 04/23/2015 2:23:02 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was already on a plane and flying back to Texas Thursday afternoon when the Senate held its final confirmation vote for Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch, a Cruz campaign aide told TheBlaze.
As a result, Cruz was the only senator not to vote on Lynch’s confirmation earlier in the day. The Senate approved Lynch, a candidate that Cruz has argued against for months now.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) missed the final vote on the confirmation of Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch, and was on a plane back to Texas. Cruz was the only senator to miss the vote.
The Cruz aide declined to say why the senator was returning to his home state. However, a reporter from Real Clear Politics tweeted a picture of a flyer indicating that Cruz, a GOP presidential contender, had a campaign fundraiser to attend to Thursday night in Texas.
Here's why Cruz had to fly back to Texas before the final Lynch vote… pic.twitter.com/BCUt2cbkED
— Rebecca Berg (@rebeccagberg) April 23, 2015
While Cruz missed the final vote, aides to Cruz stressed that Cruz was in the Senate for the key vote on whether to end debate on Lynch’s nomination. The so-called “cloture vote” in the Senate is in fact the critical vote, since an agreement to end debate needs 60 votes, and once that happens, it’s usually a cinch to find the 51 votes needed to confirm a nominee or pass a bill.
Cruz and most other Republicans voted against ending debate, but 20 Republicans voted with Democrats and allowed Lynch to get to a final vote.
Cruz spokeswoman Amanda Carpenter said the cloture vote was the “vote that mattered,” and laid out her argument in a series of tweets soon after the vote:
If the Senate could get 60 votes for cloture, they could get 51 for final confirmation. Cloture is the only vote that mattered.
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) April 23, 2015
Lynch received 66 votes on the vote that mattered. http://t.co/W6Ne8mQVv8 If she can get to 66 she can get to 51
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) April 23, 2015
If he can win, he can win, if he can’t, he can’t.
I am going to support him either way, because it does not matter to me at all if the GOP wins the presidential election or not.
It matters to me if an American loving honest conservative wins a whole lot, so that’s why I am going to support him.
If the rest of the GOP doesn’t get on board, then so be it, but I won’t be getting on their boat either, that’s for sure.
So long as Rand voted against cloture, that’s all that would concern me.
I don’t care what Rubio does, he’s dead to me.
I’m sure Cruz made the leadership aware that he had to catch a flight. I think it was deliberate delay because they did Nothing for three hours!
Ted Cruz will have a strong campaign in Iowa. He has notable backing from outspoken Christian conservatives like Steve Deace (otherwise a likely Huckabee supporter), and he also has a number of prominent supporters among libertarian-leaning GOPers, and even from the under-appreciated Congressman Rod Blum, and former aide to Cong. Steve King, Bryan English.
Fair enough. I’m not taking issue with Cruz at all on this. I’m pissed at the ten sellouts who voted for this woman. Our side is so afraid to criticise anyone of color but it sure as hell doesn’t stop the Dems from going after people of color who are conservative. Ted Cruz may be the only person in this field who has the fire to drag Speaker Bonehead, and Majority Leader McWorthless to implement a conservative agenda.
No, Pal. THe absence means nothing. Would you or anyone else in America who opposed the Communist Lynch have felt better if the vote had been 56-44. Actually, with 20 (!) cretins voting for cloture, the REAL vote was 66-34! Two thirds of the Senate are ENEMIES of America. Bob
Petty swipe by a randRONPAULista?
Cruz’s vote wouldn’t have mattered. To informed people, he did all that he could.
But I think his skipping on the vote will hurt him more than the event in Texas will help him.
To uninformed people, he skipped out of his responsibility. The lesser GOP candidates (Santorum, Christie, etc) will use it against him.
I am too.
There are always enough republicans to get whatever the dems want done done.
Always.
And when do the democrats break ranks and side with the repubs on anything at all?
Never.
But I’m not sure that even matters, because as far as I can see they are all democrats except for Cruz and Lee and Sessions.
“Lynch received 66 votes on the vote [cloture] that mattered”, though only 56 voted for her confirmation.
So 10 Senators played the old bait and switch game to fool their constituents. I did not look up the two votes to see who the conmen were who voted for cloture but then voted against Lynch, but assume they were all Republicans, trying to fool their low information Republican primary voters.
Trumped up absent vote / travel gate nonsense that they are trying to pin on Ted..
It’s okay if you’re not going to vote for him. I’ll vote for him. Maybe I’ll vote for him twice to make up for the horrible - terrible - really very bad loss of your vote.
Try decaf.... it works by not working.
I actually don’t know what Reagan did to win the primary and the general election. It’s also a different era and I don’t believe we’re (the US) going to make a dramatic swing back to the 1980’s era (political or social).
If as a nation we make any sort of move, it’s going to take more than 2 years. I just don’t see how the current political and social structure ... not to mention media and business interests ... or our demographics ... will ‘allow’ the sort of changes required to return to a bygone era and way of life. Not in the next two years.
I may not remember how Reagan won in 1980 ... but I do believe it took him more than one bite at the apple. This is the first attempt by Ted Cruz ... maybe he can pull it off?? I’m not much of a fan of Jeb or Marco. And no way I could support Rand. So that pretty much leaves Cruz or Walker .. at least at this point.
As a constituent from the great State of Texas, let me emphatically state for the record that Sen. Cruz is representing me just fine and 49 other States could only be so lucky.
I want him running. I want him to continue representing me if he doesn’t win.
Raise a helluva lot of money at that fundraiser tonight, Sen. Cruz!
Run, Ted, Run!
Mitch’s Cabal is more like it.....
It was a intentional, calculated delay by Mitch the Beyatch..
Remember ?
They tried it to George Washington dubbed the “ Conway Cabal “ ......
A 50 state plan takes lots of money. You do that by not avoiding fundraisers for useless votes.
Just saying.....
You’re criticizing him for not voting and for putting in place the funding for a plan that avoiding a useless vote allows. You’re like the MSM, criticizing our guys no matter what they do.
MITCH MCONNEL’S CABAL AGAINST TED CRUZ !!!
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