Was he lying then or is he lying now.
You believe liberal/socialist PBS or conservative Cruz?
Well Cruz was either lying when he said that his now “poison pill” was absolutely needed to get the Amnesty Bill passed (that was back when he was pushing it), or Cruz is lying today when he says that he never wanted to get the bill passed and was just trying to kill it.
I tend to believe the pre-Trump Cruz as Illegal Immigration was never a big issue for him until recently and he was VERY CLEAR at the time that he wanted Rubio’s bill to pass.
In any case, Cruz did single-handedly manage to stop the House from passing it’s “Principals on Immigration”, in Jan 2014, which would have put them on the road to cutting a deal with the Senate to “get the issue behind us”. That actually was a GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENT and he should be touting that, instead of trying to rectify a mistake.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/us/politics/text-of-republicans-principles-on-immigration.html
Can you or any of the other trumpers believe what other real conservative senators and representatives say in their support of Cruz and their plan for the “Rubio Citizenship Bill”? It is not just Cruz that was behind the poison pills.
It was his poison pill that gave the pro amnesty vote cover to vote against it. That is what a poison pill amendment does.
Without the maneuvering by Cru the bill would have been passed weeks earlier and the Cantor loss wouldn’t have been a factor.