Whoa. Did Sen. Ted Cruz just do a 180-degree switcheroo and vote for cloture on the bill to defund Obamacare? A lot of people (including some well-known liberal bloggers and several journalists for MSM outlets) seem to think so:
By Ted Cruz's own logic, he just voted to fund Obamacare. Glad to see he saw the light!
— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) September 25, 2013
Ted Cruz just voted for cloture on his own fake filibuster. Is there anyone still clinging to the idea that he's bound by logic?
— David Waldman-1, of Yorktown LLC™ (@KagroX) September 25, 2013
Let's get this straight: Cruz railed against voting to take up the House-passed CR, which defunds Obamacare. But then votes to do just that.
— Mike O'Brien (@mpoindc) September 25, 2013
Mike Lee and Ted Cruz have now BOTH voted *for* cloture on the bill they spent 21 hours "fillibustering."
— Taniel (@Taniel) September 25, 2013
There is zero suspense about this cloture vote. Cruz will be lucky to get 20 Republican "no" votes.
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) September 25, 2013
Ted Cruz just voted Yes on the motion to proceed to the CR. Huh?
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 25, 2013
Wait. RT @sahilkapur: Ted Cruz just voted Yes on the motion to proceed to the CR. Huh?
— Shawna Thomas (@Shawna) September 25, 2013
Wrong. This was a motion to schedule the vote on cloture. It’s just a procedural vote, in other words — one that Sen. Cruz never said he would oppose. The key cloture vote will take place on Saturday.
.@taniel @sahilkapur @zbyronwolf You guys know this is only on the motion to proceed, right? Cloture on the bill comes on Saturday.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) September 25, 2013
Cruz never said he would vote against this. This is not the vote you guys are looking for. That's cloture to end debate, later this week
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) September 25, 2013
https://twitter.com/conncarroll/status/382915461773414400
https://twitter.com/MzRebecca06/status/382917195652554752
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