A failure of execution. RINO collaborators opposed Cruz.
Lets see, the plan was to force Obama and Reid and Senate Dems to pass a Senate bill defunding Obamacare, as a condition to end a shutdown, but not get blamed for that shutdown.
And Obamacare funding is exempt from the same shutdown so Obamacare funded during same shutdown.
And everyone knew that Bohner would at some point put a Senate CR bill up for vote and pass it with Pelosi votes, who can claim they were caught by surprised there?
So all it did was keep Obamacare failures out of the news for two weeks and change the subject to shutdowns. And pay Federal employees for another two weeks off, great use of $$$>
That is why you only rounded up 19 Senate votes out of 47 GOPs (~ 40%) and 19 % of Senate.