This is the Hurricane Sandy sham all over again.
By the way, where was Ted Cruz? Didn't see him in the list. Guess he's going to be a good little boy since he's running for re-election. He's still taking undeserved flak over his opposition to the Sandy bill.
The press optics are already that the mean old GOP wouldn't approve hurricane disaster relief funding, so Trump had to go to the Democrats to get it through.
Oh. Yeah. There will be little mention (except for gloating) in the MSM of the other stuff that rode through.
But, back to the optics. Cruz (and for that matter any Texan up for reelection) will face the firing squad in the MSM if they don't vote FOR anything the press is presenting as
Hurricane Relief Funding for the Gulf Coast, and that is what the ads would be all through the election cycle.
He's stuck, plain and simple, even if his vote was not needed, it best better be there or they'd vote him out.
Sometimes you are painted into a political corner despite your best efforts, and this was going through, so not the hill to die on.
Voters would be far more emotional against someone who voted 'Nay' against a measure presented (by the MSM) as if it was a streamlined Relief funding bill, than they would be 'understanding' about voting against against the blackmail involved in the bill, or the pigmeat piled on to get the Dems to vote for it.
