Discussion: GOP Senators Show No Signs Of Rallying Around Ted Cruz In 2016

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Discussion for article #247141

[mantan]

awkward chuckles, long silences, and evading

One hand clapping…

[austin_dave]

Sounds like the response to an elevator fart.

[jinnj]

Asked why they aren’t backing Cruz, senators responded with awkward chuckles and long silences
… while quietly thinking “Support that back stabbing Son of a Bitch? Hell! I wouldn’t even piss on him if he was on fire”

[meri]

Oh look. TPM has another story on “Ted Cruz - no change”.

Front page news for sure.

[darrtown]

Cruz is learning the hard lesson about “do unto others”.
No senate endorsements? I’m not surprised. The surprise is that senators haven’t been publicly ridiculing his past behavior.

[steviedee111]

Is it any wonder?

“I cannot believe he would tell a flat-out lie,” Cruz declared of McConnell near the end of a damning floor speech about the expired Export-Import Bank. “What we just saw today was an absolute demonstration that, not only what he told every Republican senator, but what he told the press over and over and over again was a simple lie.”

“We now know that when the majority leader looks us in the eye and makes a commitment, he is willing to say things he knows are false.”

Accusing another senator of lying on the Senate floor is not just rare—it runs counter to the Senate’s rules:

***No Senator in debate shall, directly or indirectly, by any form of words impute to another Senator or to other Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a Senator.***

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/ted-cruz-mitch-mcconnell-donald-trump-liar-senate/399590/

[ignatius_donnelly]

Losers. Let’s see how many of them get invited into the President Cruz Cabinet and Study Group!

And their alternative, now verging on certainty, is Donald Trump.

You know, guys, your party affiliation is not a birth condition. You can change it. You wouldn’t have to become Democrats (it would be a bad fit) but why not, I don’t know, start a new party? It could be center right, you wouldn’t have to cater to slope-browed illiterates, you could advocate prudent, cautious policies… Who knows? It might catch on.

Think about it.

[austin_dave]

Does Cruz need their help? Isn’t he all about being “an outsider”?

[inversion]

Notices how Thune forgot that Trump was Cruz’s cheerleader during that last shutdown.

[livi_o]

Others told Bloomberg they were still salty about Cruz’s driving role in the 2013 government shutdown.

I look forward to TPM reporting that the Sanders campaign is on fleek following the win in Michigan.

[meri]

Totes.

[maxaroo]

“I think what was frustrating about that was there were expectations created that somehow we could win," Sen. John Thune (R-SD) said. “And I think all along it was pretty clear we weren’t going to succeed there. So it was frustrating for a lot of us, having to go through that process. But hopefully lessons have been learned by everybody.”

And would the lesson be that it is un-American to sabotage the operations of the U.S. government, and the country at large, all to advance a political agenda?
No, probably not.

[bdtex]

They know what’s about to happen next Tuesday.

[meri]

I had no idea one senator had so much power.

It kind of makes me wonder why Thune didn’t use his Super Senator Power to cancel Cruz’s and prevent it from happening.

[sandyh]

Or rallying around Romney, Trump or Carson. They might actually lobby the Justice Department to look into Christie’s corrupt administration.

[magical_panda]

When he finally gets that coveted Mike Lee endorsement after all these months of having no friends, it will be a big deal.

[manhattan123]

This is surprising. I thought for sure when he ate that white pus ball of booger off his lip in the last debate his colleagues would finally start lining up behind him.

[sandyh]

I doubt Mean Girl Lee would insult Trump and defy his latest demand that everyone in the party unite and endorse him…with a full arm raised pledge of support.

They are all scared of both their top two front runners. Has to be the most irresponsible, incompetent and cowardly group of Senators in the history of the body.

Why one of them hasn’t thrown The Donald to the mat and body slammed him in his privates is beyond me. I guess it will be up to Bernie or Hillary to do the honors. Might get a Nobel Peace Prize for it.

[johnrm]

The silences are b/c they know he’s coming back to the senate and there’s nothing they can do…bababababbaahaahahahahahahha