[Cboldt]

Thank you for your very kind compliments, and for sharing your thoughts. I agree with you completely. There is another variety of settled, and that is "settled wrong by the boss."

I'd rather we keep the constitution and lose Cruz, than keep Cruz and lose the NBC clause. I think that is best for the nation. But, the boss may say the NBC clause is toast. It's effectively toast now, by neglect.

[ConservativeDude]

Hence why I see this as a Greek tragedy.

We have a great defender of the Constitution, being killed by the Constitution which is only trotted out in this one particular instance. As soon as Cruz is gone, the rest of the Constitution will continue to be ignored. And if he’s gone completely....ie, he just becomes a lawyer and a non-Senator...then one of the last speed bumps left will be gone and they can speed up their destruction of America.

Seriously...this is the stuff of tragedy.