Cruz Senate Stunt Goes Unpunished as Old Tools Don’t Work

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A growing group of Ted Cruz’s Republican Senate colleagues are infuriated with his tactics.

So frustrated was Arizona Senator John McCain with the latest, forcing fellow Republicans to take a politically risky vote on lifting the debt ceiling, that yesterday he tweeted a Wall Street Journal editorial accusing the Texas lawmaker of instigating “needless drama that helps to explain why Republicans remain a minority.”