In another sign of the tangled procedural web Ted Cruz found himself in, he just voted for cloture on the continuing resolution that he spent all night faux-filibustering.
It’s not completely illogical.
By voting for cloture, Cruz is saying he wants debate to begin on the resolution, which he supports in its current form. But he’ll oppose ending debate when that vote comes up later this week because once debate ends, Democrats in the Senate will strip the bill of the defund Obamacare provision and bring it to a final vote.
Got it? Like a GOP aide told us the other day, if you’re explaining in politics, you’re losing.
Dylan Byers writes up a piece at Politico decrying ‘liberal media bias’ against Ted Cruz and then as evidence cites two opinion writers/pages. His concern in particular is why Cruz isn’t getting positive press in the way Wendy Davis did down in Texas.
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