Senate rejects Ted Cruz strategy 79-19; cloture invoked, Obamacare funding restored

[TexasTowelie]

Sen. Ted Cruz faces the press, with Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. (left) and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, after the Senate rejects his Obamacare tactics. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON — The Senate issued a stern and unmistakable rebuke to Sen. Ted Cruz and his fellow tea partiers who wanted to hold the federal budget hostage as leverage to defund Obamacare.

The 79-19 vote on cloture fell far short of the uprising Cruz had sought. Anything 60 or over was sufficient to cut off debate and keep the process moving.

“This is an ongoing process and we’ll see how it concludes at the end of the process,” Cruz said, putting a game face on the defeat.

The cloture vote cleared the way for the Senate to restore funding for the health care law before sending the stopgap spending plan back to the House. That vote was 54-44, along party lines. The vote on final passage was the same, and on those, Cruz, fellow Texas Sen. John Cornyn and the rest of the Republicans were on the same (losing) side.

More at http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2013/09/senate-rejects-ted-cruz-strategy-79-19-cloture-invoked.html/

[font color=red]The game face expressions on Cruz, Lee and Rubio are priceless!

Please get this recced to the front page.[/font]

[Tx4obama]

1. The number of the day is: 79

We got 79 votes for cloture.

AND

The last time a US president (until Obama today) spoke with an Iranian head of state was in 1979

[mountain grammy]

9. mmmm interesting!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Hallelujah!

[Link Speed]

3. Poor widdle teddie can't get the frownie thing down

I am convinced that pols practice that frown thing they all do.

That is probably my favorite pic of the year.

KnR and fuck those clowns.

[calimary]

4. Work those eyebrows, teddie boy.

I think somebody may have told him once that those eyebrows that tilt up at the inside corners are somehow sexy. I think that-guy-whose-name-rhymes-with-Vanity may have heard the same thing.

[sheshe2]

5. K&R! nt

[bluesbassman]

6. Cruz looks like an eight year old that just got his yo-yo taken away for chasing the cat with it.

What a putz.

BTW, no offense to eight year olds.

[bhikkhu]

7. So the majority of republicans jumped ship on the cloture vote

...where it actually mattered. That it passed on a party line vote (where it didn't matter much) is expected, but that a solid majority participated on the cloture vote bodes well. Perhaps some of those guys have been hearing from their constituents, and hopefully they have in congress as well.

[OldRedneck]

8. So . . . the bill now goes back to the House

Back to the House where it's now Boner's problem!!