This, and not the Noh Theatre antics of the debt ceiling, is where those republicans/conservatives who care about federal spending can prove their mettle. This is where they can prove they walk the walk as well as they talk the talk, or not.
It may not make headlines the way the debt ceiling theatrics did, but if Cruz & Co. fail to oppose this idiocy, then they will have proven that they're all bun and no beef.
I for one really hope the tea partiers do show up for this one, and that they pass the test.