Ted Cruz's knee jerk attempts to obstruct every initiative by the Obama Administration in the Senate has fallen into disfavor with the rest of the Republican Caucus. Now that Republicans are running the Senate Cruz's disruptive tactics have lost their appeal with other Republicans.
GOP senators block Ted Cruz move to hold up Loretta Lynch vote
By SEUNG MIN KIM and BURGESS EVERETT
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s strategy of blocking a vote on President Barack Obama’s attorney general nominee until the White House relents on immigration executive actions ran into a brick wall Wednesday: his own GOP colleagues.
Republican senators dismissed Cruz’s proposal for denying Loretta Lynch a confirmation vote in the Judiciary Committee and on the Senate floor as part of the Texas firebrand’s strategy to use “every procedural tool” at the Senate’s disposal to override Obama’s actions, which could affect nearly 5 million undocumented immigrants.
And Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), asked about Cruz’s effort, responded: “That’s not my position.” Flake has also said that he will support Lynch. “The president ought to get his people as long as there’s no disqualifying substance there, and I don’t think there is with her.”
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), a member of the Judiciary Committee who said Wednesday he was still undecided on whether to back Lynch, indicated in a brief interview that he still wants to see the confirmation process move along for the federal prosecutor.
“A part of what we’ve talked about here is getting back to moving things and having people have an opportunity to vote,” he said. “We should go through the process, regardless of how a member may feel about the confirmation.”
The GOP led Senate wants a to restore a few shreds of sanity to their caucus' conduct.