Cornyn on Tuesday said the Texas Democrats failed to realize the irony in their move, by "using their collective power as the minority party to stop a bill from becoming law while coming to Washington D.C. to ask the president and Senate Dems to nuke the very Senate rule that protects the rights of the minority." "In other words, you might say, a filibuster for me, but not for thee," Cornyn said. The senior senator called the walkout by Texas House Democrats, "an embarrassing dereliction of their duty and a shameful political stunt." "They can't win so they're doing the equivalent of, 'I'll take my ball and go home,' or in this case, 'I'm simply running away,'" Cornyn said. "But as Texans, standing up to a fight is part of who we are even if you know in the end you may not prevail. But instead, they turned their backs, hopped on a private jet, and ran from this fight."