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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Cruz Senate Stunt Goes Unpunished as Old Tools Don’t Work"
Cruz Senate Stunt Goes Unpunished as Old Tools Dont WorkBy Kathleen Hunter at Bloomberg News
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-14/cruz-senate-stunt-goes-unpunished-as-old-tools-don-t-work.html
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A growing group of Ted Cruzs Republican Senate colleagues are infuriated with his tactics.
So frustrated was Arizona Senator John McCain with the latest, forcing fellow Republicans to take a politically risky vote on lifting the debt ceiling, that yesterday he tweeted a Wall Street Journal editorial accusing the Texas lawmaker of instigating needless drama that helps to explain why Republicans remain a minority.
Yet theres not much McCain, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell or other Republicans can do to change Cruzs behavior.
In this day and age, there are no tools available to a leader to punish a member like Senator Cruz, especially because Senator Cruz doesnt care what either the leader or the rest of his caucus thinks, said Jim Manley, a former top aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat.
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"Cruz Senate Stunt Goes Unpunished as Old Tools Don’t Work" (Original Post)
applegrove
Feb 2014
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Hopefully Ted Cruz's tactics will be shutout repeatedly so his constituents eventually...
democratisphere
Feb 2014
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democratisphere
(17,235 posts)1. Hopefully Ted Cruz's tactics will be shutout repeatedly so his constituents eventually...
deem him to be ineffective at his job. The Republic of Texas needs to get rid of this destructive parasite.
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)2. BULL !!!
They can change the Senate rules so that a single Senator doesn't have that kind of power.
applegrove
(118,880 posts)3. Good point.