Oh Yeah - I Get It

Mike's Rule #1:  It's never about what they tell us it's about.

Ted Cruz goes on a gab jag in the well of the Senate, and then votes in favor of cloture on a bill he said he was on his gab jag trying to kill.

Seems not to make any sense at all, but these guys don't say and do the seemingly stupid things they say and do for no good reason.  There's always a good reason, which will become clear eventually, which will involve some kind of play for money, which is how you get power, which is the whole fucking point for these guys.

From Daily Beast via Little Green Footballs:

"These guys aren't stupid. They can read the votes,” says a veteran Republican operative. “That's why Republicans are so infuriated. Folks know exactly why they're doing this. They are using this issue and misleading conservatives in order to expand their own influence and raise money for themselves."

The biggest actors so far in Defund, Inc. have been Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, and the Senate Conservatives Fund, the leadership PAC that Jim DeMint launched as a senator and handed off to his former staff members to run as a conservative super PAC. While Cruz led the defund fight in the Senate this summer, the SCF led a huge parallel fight on the outside, setting up a website, running radio and television ads, robocalls and a direct mail campaign, all designed to raise money from still-hot conservative activists and urge them to sign a petition to tell Congress not to fund the health-care bill when they greenlight funding for the rest of the government.

Don't be a rube.