Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) — A growing group of Ted Cruz's Republican Senate colleagues are infuriated with his antics.

So frustrated was Arizona Senator John McCain with the latest, forcing fellow Republicans to take a politically risky vote on lifting the debt ceiling, that yesterday he tweeted a Wall Street Journal editorial accusing the Texas lawmaker of instigating "needless drama that helps to explain why Republicans remain a minority."

Yet there's not much McCain, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell or other Republicans can do to change Cruz's behavior.

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