The "so-called" filibuster by Senator Ted Cruz has shown the one belief that the GOP has now that it will never give up: The majority can not have its way!
Senator Ted Cruz is basically making speeches so that the Senate cannot take a vote on cloture on the CR budget bill. What does that mean? Simply, a cloture vote means that the majority of the Senators can pass the bill before it. Senator Cruz wants the 60 vote threshold to pass the bill. Yes, in effect, Senator Cruz again is saying that the majority has no right to rule on funding a law. Now, this really isn't anything new for the GOP in the last 3 years. And not just in the Senate. While the Senate has for the last 3 years worked under the 60 vote threshold, making it easy to see that the minority is impeding the majority, in fact, it has been effect throughout the legislature since 2010. While the House has been held by the GOP since 2010, it was actually Democrats who won the most House votes in 2012, getting over 2 million votes nation-wide than the GOP. And, of course, President Obama won the election by more than 4 million votes. So, in trying to stop President Obama from acting on all type of things, the GOP is basically saying that the majority in America have no right to have what it wants done in the country.
Senator Ted Cruz stated a basic GOP truth when he stated that he was going to do everything he could so that the majority of Senators could get a bill passed. Sarah Palin, when talking about Cruz, stated an ever deeper truth: Ted Cruz is a tool.
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