[Don Corleone]

“In this day and age, there are no tools available to a leader to punish a member like Senator Cruz, especially because Senator Cruz doesn’t care what either the leader or the rest of his caucus thinks,” said Jim Manley, a former top aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat.

The same can be said about turncoats like McCain and Flake from Az.

[cripplecreek]

“In this day and age, there are no tools available to a leader to punish a member like Senator Cruz, especially because Senator Cruz doesn’t care what either the leader or the rest of his caucus thinks,”

Thus displaying the disaster that the 17th amendment continues to be. Ted Cruz is there to represent his state and the people who elected him, not the DC club.