You can see why other Republican senators wouldn’t like this. You can see why they don’t like Cruz and Lee playing ball with these outside groups. And you could see how this dynamic could hurt the Republican Party.

But here’s the Tea Party interpretation of this anger: “Senators don’t like to be held accountable,” Matt Hoskins, president of the Senate Conservatives Fund wrote me in an email this week…

Heritage Action, FreedomWorks, Club for Growth, and the Senate Conservatives Fund, like Napster, use technology to smash that bottleneck. Now lawmakers can’t control what their constituents hear anymore.

Cruz’s speeches and parliamentary moves may not make a dent in Obamacare, but Cruz may force senators to listen harder to their constituents.