Cruz plays nuance again

The rumbling, stumbling presidential campaign has had one of its more interesting weeks. With Mitt Romney definitely out, Scott Walker definitely in, and two others stepping in the vaccination debate (as a child of the 70s, I must admit to being thoroughly befuddled that there is such as thing as a vaccination debate, but onward), one of the more interesting items came from Washington DC, of all places.

Senate Republicans are debating how to handle the Democrats’ filibuster of the DHS funding bill – the one the House passed and which banned implementation of the 2012 and 2014 deferred prosecutions of unauthorized immigrants. As they huddled for lunch, the GOP caucus heard from an unusual combo (Joel Gehrke, National Review OnlineThe Corner).

Two senators from very different wings of the Republican party united to outline how the GOP might counter a Democratic filibuster of the House bill that denies funding for President Obama’s immigration executive orders.

Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and Senator Susan Collins (R., Maine) argued during a Senate GOP lunch that if Democrats filibuster the Department of Homeland Security funding bill — which blocks implementation of Obama’s 2012 deferred action program and his November 2014 “adult amnesty” — Republicans should respond by blocking only the 2014 orders. The thinking, according to a GOP senator who was in the lunch, is that Senate Democrats will have a harder time staying unified for a filibuster if Republicans have a narrower focus.

Gehrke later explains that Collins and Cruz don’t see eye to eye on the 2012 order, but the Maine moderate referred to the 2014 order as “not even a close call” in terms of its lack of constitutional authority.

How the issue plays out will be seen over the next month or two. Beyond that, however, Cruz has shown once again that he can be more nuanced – and able to reach out across the party – than conventional wisdom perceives. While the other aspirants for president are test-driving ways to reach outside the party for votes, Cruz appears to the be the only one focused on his relationships within the party…

…and, quietly, among the aspirants, he had one of the better days.

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