Ted Cruz under fire for stalling Senate vote on Boehner/Obama cromnibus bill

  When Harry Reid was forced to pull the Boehner/Obama cromnibus bill from the Senate floor on Friday the soon to be former Majority Leader decided to use the delay to push through many of Barack Obama’s previously stalled political nominees.

  The actions of such Senators as Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Elizabeth Warren is what led Harry Reid to pull the bill; but while Elizabeth Warren is basically being hailed as a middle-class warrior for her actions Ted Cruz is meeting a much different fate.

  Ted Cruz’s decision has drawn the ire of the establishment Republicans, not surprisingly, and Mitch McConnell took to Twitter to slam the Senator from Texas for doing what he called “Harry Reid’s bidding” and other so-called conservative leaders followed suit.

  This is  not unexpected or surprising but what is surprising is that it seems as if some conservative websites are now taking the bait. PJ Media is the perfect example, here is what that website had to say about Ted Cruz’s actions:

Senator Ted Cruz is now officially on the outs with most of the GOP caucus. I’m sure that suits him fine, and no doubt wins him friends and supporters among those conservatives who cheer his grandstanding and futile legislative gestures that have zero chance of passing.

For Cruz, playing to the peanut gallery on the right in service to his overweening ambition to be president trumps all. Forget reason. Forget logic. Why bother with those trivialities when there’s red meat to throw at his supporters?

And if, in the process of satisfying the bloodlust of his supporters, he helps the opposition and damages his party and its causes, that is secondary to his narcissistic compulsion to make everything about him.

Twenty-four Obama administration nominees to the bench and important agency positions that were blocked for months by his fellow Republicans were set on the path  to easy confirmation over the weekend because Cruz wanted to blow up the budget deal. By preventing the Senate from leaving town on Friday when he objected to the unanimous consent request by Majority Leader Harry Reid to adjourn until Monday, Cruz not only forced a vote on his motion to deny funding to Obama’s executive orders on immigration on Saturday night — a vote that would have happened Monday anyway — he allowed Reid and the Democrats the extra time they needed to ram through a couple of dozen ultra-liberal nominees who will do more damage to the causes in which conservatives believe than all of Obama’s executive orders put together.

  This point would be well-taken and valid if it were not for the fact that Harry Reid had already gone on record as stating he may be forced to extend the Senate session because “we have a lot to do” and that included confirming nominees:

Speaking on the Senate Floor the soon-to-be minority leader outlined the items remaining on the docket before the end of the year — including the must-pass government funding measure, tax extenders, defense authorization, and nominations — concluding that there may be a situation that requires lawmakers to stay in Washington beyond Dec. 12. 

“We have a lot to do, and there isn’t much time to accomplish it,” he said. “I urge all senators to work hard to complete our work in a timely and efficient fashion. We may have to be here the week before Christmas and hopefully, Mr. President, not into the Christmas holiday, but there are things we have to get done.”

  He sounded pretty adamant about being ready to work through the Christmas holiday in order to get everything done, and that included confirming Barack Obama’s nominees, so does anyone really believe if a vote was held on the cromnibus bill on Friday morning that he would give up on confirming these nominees by adjourning the Senate before his work was done?

  The only thing that changed because of Ted Cruz’s actions was the order in which everything was done–the results are the same as they would have been if Ted Cruz had given up.

  It is time for us to stop letting the Democrats, the establishment Republicans, and the mainstream media control the narrative…