Watch Rachel Maddow Expose Sneaky Republicans Hiding Votes From Tea Party (Video)
Cruz vowed to filibuster the debt ceiling bill in the Senate in order to require a super majority to bring it to a vote -- which is just what the Republican leadership in the Senate did not want.

Via Americans Against The Tea Party:
Rachel Maddow has exposed the lengths that Republicans will go to in order to keep their base from knowing that they have voted in a way that will upset the Tea party extremists within their ranks and done the job beautifully. She began by showing how Ted Cruz (R-TX), darling of the Tea party helped ...