On Saturday night, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham took a shot at Sen. Ted Cruz, blaming Cruz’s “tactics” and “missteps” — that is, insisting on a point of order on whether President Obama’s executive amnesty is constitutional — for forcing a weekend session of the Senate and allowing Speaker Harry Reid and the still-Democrat controlled Senate to push through even more nominations, including Obama’s pick for surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy.
CAP Action, a group working alongside American Progress and ThinkProgress, had its shot at Cruz aimed and ready to tweet the minute Murthy was confirmed.
https://twitter.com/ezhurb/status/544634555823841280
Who else?
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/544644003942367233
Good gosh, the panel on @SpecialReport goes all RINO and trashes Ted Cruz, while Grubering those citizens that support him & get his stand
— Jane L (@SunnyJL52) December 16, 2014
POTUS does not thank Sen. Cruz for the Vivek Murty nomination.
— Niels Lesniewski (@nielslesniewski) December 15, 2014
Cruz communications director Amanda Carpenter again insisted that Reid had no intention of adjourning the Senate without pushing through every nominee possible.
https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/544513547422556161
https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/544513869238919168
https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/544514236953526273
https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/544653256866406400
Do you guys really believe Cruz, Lee et al, allowed 24 Obama nominees to be confirmed who wouldn’t have otherwise been? Asking sincerely.
— David Limbaugh (@DavidLimbaugh) December 15, 2014
@DavidLimbaugh these same people voted in 2013 to give Reid more power and chew up the cloture clock https://t.co/VvjRwpI9k6
— Daniel Horowitz (@RMConservative) December 15, 2014
@DavidLimbaugh @RMConservative Literally, the argument that Reid wasn't going to ram these guys through comes straight out of the Onion
— Kyle Raccio (@kyleraccio) December 15, 2014
Cruz criticizers the same people who defended funding Obamacare because it would collapse under its own weight.
LULZ.
— Michelle Ray (@GaltsGirl) December 15, 2014
https://twitter.com/JayCaruso/status/544625949741162496
GOP: 1/21/11 until Friday: We can't make Harry Reid do anything.
GOP on Friday: Reid was our bitch until Cruz came along.
— Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) December 15, 2014
Harry Reid went nuclear (and the GOP did nothing in retaliation) but he was just going to let nominations die.
Sure.
— Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) December 15, 2014
https://twitter.com/CalebHowe/status/544628691616014336
https://twitter.com/JayCaruso/status/544626193342144512
Prayers up for DC-based GOP bloggers trying to tie hostage siege to Ted Cruz.
— SFK (@stephenkruiser) December 15, 2014
Here’s a tweet that might soothe some of the troll-burn:
https://twitter.com/johnhawkinsrwn/status/544589863241388032
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