Cruz's insistence on getting 60
votes prevented the bill from being passed with a simple majority in the
100-member Senate. Had he not objected, the 53 Democrats and two
independents who align themselves with Democrats could have done it by
themselves without forcing any Republicans — particularly those up for
re-election this year — to cast politically painful votes.
But
now the filibuster vote was on. And the only way to know where the
tally stood was to sit in the Senate chamber and track the vote of every
senator, typically made with just a hand gesture.
It's a challenging task for even the most accomplished Senate watcher to perfect.
Nervous Wall Street traders and other interested observers were out of luck as the voted dragged on for more than an hour.
Financial markets floated softly southward as suspense built.
Yes, Ted Cruz pretty much hung his fellow Republicans out to dry so they had to vote with the Democrats to break his stupid filibuster. If this vote collapsed we might have seen a default and an 800 point down day. I'm glad McConnell and 6 other Republicans actually stood up to Cruz the bully and put their political futures at risk for the sake of the market and the country.
I think I might give money to McConnell's campaign so he can smash the face of whatever stupid Tea Party boot-licker he is running against. In any case I am now officially anti-Tea Party. Cruz the Idiot has actually changed me from pro-Tea Party (who attended the first Hawaii Tea Party group) to thinking that the Tea Party is a menace and needs to be censured and driven out of office.
I would sign any petition to recall Ted Cruz and any fellow Tea Partier and replace them with Republicans that will actually watch out for my 401K. This is one of the few times I had Koch Brothers billions so I can funnel money into pro-business candidates that will drive these fools out of office and into the dust bin of history.
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