While trying to defend blowing off Loretta Lynch’s
confirmation vote, Cruz humiliated himself by getting the
Senate rules on confirmation wrong.
Politico reported Cruz’s exchange with reporters:
In explaining why he missed the vote for the
fundraiser, Cruz stumbled over the Senate’s confirmation rules. Senate
Democrats lowered the filibuster threshold from 60 votes on nearly all
nominees to a simple majority in 2013, and they remain there today.
“Cloture was the vote that mattered, it
required 60 votes,” Cruz said. Informed by reporters that’s not true,
Cruz paused briefly and responded: “Fair point.”
The rules of
the confirmation process are something that he really should know. It is
shameful that Cruz doesn’t seem to know the rules of his own job. After
he blew off the confirmation vote, Cruz’s attendance record has
come under scrutiny. Not only is Cruz taking a salary from the taxpayers
while not bothering to show up for work, the Texas Republican appears
to not know what he is being paid to do.
Cruz can make up any number of excuses, but none of
them can hide the fact that one of his main duties as a United States
senator is to vote on the president’s nominees. It isn’t difficult. All
Cruz had to do was show up and vote yes or no.
It is bad enough that Sen. Cruz could be bothered to
come to work; it is even worse that he doesn’t understand the basic
rules of the job.
Ted
Cruz wants to be the next president in the worst way, but if Cruz can’t
figure out what his job is as a senator, he is not fit to be president.
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