When you speak against your fellow senators, especially if they are in your own party, it might not end up well for you.
This recently happened to Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz made an attempt to stop Mitch McConnell’s efforts to fund the government without attacking Planned Parenthood.
Cruz had called for a “sufficient second” that would have allowed him a roll call vote.
The roll call vote would have listed which senators voted for or against funding planned parenthood, and Cruz could have used this information in his presidential campaign, not only against members of the Democratic Party, but his own.
His colleagues chose not to give him that information for him to use.
When he went for a voice vote, only Utah’s Mike Lee supported him.
Both these types of votes are procedural courtesies, but Cruz was denied them first when he called McConnell a liar this past summer, and then just at the end of this past September.
Predictably, having lost what he could use as a weapon against his opponents and as a plus for himself, Cruz threw a hissy fit:
“What does denying a second mean? Denying a recorded vote. Why is that important?” Cruz asked. “When you are breaking the commitment you’ve made to the men and women who elected you, the most painful thing in the world is accountability.
One of the ways you avoid accountability is you somehow are somewhere else doing something really, really important instead of actually showing up to the battle.”
This last bit seems a little odd when the record for his first 2 1/2 years in the senate shows that while Senator Cruz was preparing for his presidential bid and running to any conservative venue that would allow him to speak, he attended only 17 of 50 public Armed Services Committee hearings; 4 of the 12 Judiciary Committee hearings during the previous 113th Congress; and 3 of the 25 full-committee hearings during the 113th Congress.
He also missed 21 of 135 roll call votes during January, February, and March of 2015, and was not present for such votes on aid for Israel, student loans, and human trafficking earning the fifth-worst record among current senators when measured over the course of their careers.
The Senate GOP seems to have grown tired of his grandstanding and pushing proposals that may make him look good to unthinking conservatives but which he knows McConnell and other Republicans will never back.
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