Which is exactly what Cruz is trying to do...force the GOP fossils in the Senate out into the open and publicly take a strand either for or against Obamacare. That's why they hate him so much.
But read the entire article. Reid can go back after this is all nicely passed and then CHANGE it (and pass with a simple majority) because he will have the “Amendment to Strike” attached that will allow him to “clean up” the House language and kick out a clean CR.
This information NEEDS to be UNDERSTOOD.
It allows the Senators to say that they voted for defunding Obamacare and then they’ll just throw up their hands and say, Reid changed it and we couldn’t do anything about it.
By NOT KNOWING that this is their “out” we don’t have a chance to tell them we KNOW what is going on and that we want THEM to get out there - on the news shows and in print - and TELL everyone that this is what Reid is going to do. It is their obligation and duty to inform their constituents.
And if they don’t they are part and parcel of this maneuver.