With a final Senate vote on the #CRomnibus” now pushed back until Monday and legislators trickling out of the Senate chamber for the weekend, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) took to the floor and blasted Obama for his “presidential temper tantrum” on amnesty. Cruz communications director Amanda Carpenter and a few stalwart reporters passed along Cruz’s message to the president and to the Senate’s newly elected Republicans.
https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/543597526050295808
MT @amandacarpenter: CRUZ: It is critical that we have a vote on Obama's illegal amnesty.
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) December 13, 2014
Ted Cruz on Pres Obama: "We are not unfamiliar with monarchy….A presidential temper tantrum is not a reasonable means of discourse."
— Roger Simon (@politicoroger) December 13, 2014
Sen Ted Cruz up on the flr now. Says Congress should "use the powers of the Constitution to counter the exec branch" #Immigration
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 13, 2014
Ted Cruz: "Both the House & the Senate are filled with people who won't be here next year and that's no accident."
— Roger Simon (@politicoroger) December 13, 2014
https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/543603833587236865
https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/543603930895106048
Cruz basically comparing McConnell and Boehner to Lucy with the Charlie Brown football.
— Niels Lesniewski (@nielslesniewski) December 13, 2014
https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/543604300438462465
https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/543605030679347200
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Cruz tries to raise point of order against #CRomnibus.
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 13, 2014
https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/543606388782424064
Cruz's pt of order against #CRomnibus would try to "defund" #Immigration exec orders. This leads to some confusion on Senate flr.
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 13, 2014
Cruz makes a "constitutional point of order" against the bill, and suddenly nobody seems to know what's going on.
— David Freddoso (@freddoso) December 13, 2014
https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/543606992422449152
When @tedcruz sneaks up on his Senate colleagues and starts talking about the Constitution . . .http://t.co/1XI2DfHvZ6
— Judge Don Willett (@JusticeWillett) December 13, 2014
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional tweets.
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