Here is an article from The New York Times saying that Ted Cruz's filibuster on Obamacare is merely for attention and countless donations from Tea Party supporters. Ultimately, the article states that he is only embarrassing himself and that the Tea Party movement will eventually fail.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/opinion/the-embarrassment-of-senator-ted-cruz.html?ref=opinion
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, the public face of the aimless and
self-destructive Tea Party strategy to stop health care reform, began an
endless floor speech on Tuesday
with the theme of “make D.C. listen.” But even his Republican
colleagues had long since stopped paying attention to his corrosive
bombast, tired of his pious insults to his own party and unimpressed
with his eagerness to shut down the government in pursuit of an
ideological dream.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
The Embarrassment of Senator Ted Cruz
9:01 AM
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Like hard-liners in the far right corner of the House, Mr. Cruz has
grabbed for every possible lever in his campaign against President
Obama’s health law, fully aware that he will not succeed but eager for
the accolades and donations that will inevitably follow from the Tea
Party’s misguided faithful. In the process, he has demonstrated how
little he understands Senate rules and, more important, how little he
appreciates the public’s desire for a collaborative Congress.
Mr. Cruz’s campaign to defund health reform consists largely of an
absurd plan to filibuster the very House bill that kept the government
from closing and defunded the health law, a notion that was rejected by
the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, and most Senate Republicans.
After he lost their support, he began an extended tirade anyway, a
stunt that might resemble a filibuster but in fact will have to end
Wednesday morning before a prescheduled vote on the House bill takes
place.
In just the first hour of his speech, Mr. Cruz said his fellow senators
were no more sincere than professional wrestlers and that accepting the
health law was like appeasing the Nazis. His own goal of tearing down
the law, he said, was a dream on par with President John F. Kennedy’s
promise to put a man on the moon. This combination of grandiosity and
pure nastiness helps explain why the senator has become the least
popular man in Washington.
But it also shows why the Tea Party’s plans will inevitably fail. Americans may remain confused about the health law, but they aren’t interested in a government shutdown
or credit default to get rid of it. Mr. Cruz may love the spotlight,
but, when it fades, he will find he was only speaking to himself.
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