Because You Can Never Be Crazy Enough If You’re From Texas
Ted Cruz is our new Tea Party Republican Senator. He makes Rand Paul look like a sane liberal college professor.
Bless his heart, his head’s so hollow he’s got to talk with his hands to get away from the echo.
Couple that with Fox New Sunday and you get …
Newly-elected Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) accused politicians of exploiting the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut to advance gun safety legislation and argued that efforts to limit assault weapons and high capacity magazines are unconstitutional.
So, according the Cruz you can now own a sawed-off shotgun, a missile launcher, and a small tactical nuclear weapon.
It’s only gonna get worse, Folks, because Cruz ain’t gonna shuddup.
Thanks to Tony and Kathleen for the heads up.
You folks in Texas have to stop finding your candidates in the asylums.
1And we’re stuck with this fool for 6 years. Between Louie, Teddy and Ricky, Texas is going to rule the Stupid for along time.
2Unfortunately, Jason, I fear for you in Texas. As a native Dallasite, I watch Texas politics – it is just as bad here in Blue Nashville, statehouse full of Evangelibagging Imbeciles, all sound like Louie the Goofer.
3When machine guns kill 1st graders, it’s not the people who want to protect the 1st graders that engage in exploitation. Cruz take a moment to focus on things that are unconscionable, rather than his limited 250 year old version of what he believes is unconstitutional.
4Ted Cruz and Louie Gohmert are the Fox News Nocturnal Emissions.
How did these two graduate from Law School?
5I’m going to quit admitting i live in Texas. This has now gone beyond embarassing! The list just continues to grow!
But, hey, when you’re 47th in the nation in education, what should we expect–these guys all went through the Texas Education System!
6This idiot would be OK if The Onion has invented him. Too bad he is real, but might be an alien expelled from the planet Dumbo.
7Susan, how are you able to handle living in such a backward place? I am a native Texan and it is depressing. Cruz and Cornyn do not represent my views, in fact what they represent and fight for is, in my opinion, detrimental to my well-being.
I am surrounded by people like these two. My congressman and state senator/reps are equally depressing.
Any advice on how to stay upbeat in such a repressive area?
8Wanna talk about exploitation? Let’s talk about the Patriot Act! Let’s talk about the Iraq War! Lets talk about MR PRESIDENT Obama (hes a NEE-gro ya’ll!! How bout them homo-sex-shuls gettin married?! Baby killers everywhere! Sharia Law! Let’s talk about the fiscal cliff and the national debt! Let’s talk about the way high capacity clips and assault weapons are flying off the shelves because some putzes just gotta get ’em before they become ee-lee-gull. Bah, the unholy trinity of the Rethugs-Evangels-Teabaggers KNOWS exploitation! They’ve been exploiting the deepest darkest fears of the uninformed for decades now! Betcha Cruz is invested in gun sales somewhere: Walmart would be about his speed! Bah!
9I always said that Rep. Steve King (Trog-IA) did a great job of representing the people in his benighted western Iowa district. Apparently Texas is getting the representation that most Texans want. I’d get out of there before they round you up and put you in re-education camps.
10A parent of one of the slain kids needs to hold a picture of the child up in front of him, shot 11 times, and say LOOK AT IT. LOOK….AT…..IT. Over and over again. He and others just don’t get it, and never will.
Know why European countries seem be be so mellow compared to us? They lived through the Holocaust. They had to LOOK AT IT. We didn’t.
Americans are pansies, hiding behind their guns.
11@James: Right on! I can’t imagine the pain those parents feel, but I think the whole country should look at the photos of those babies with bulletholes in their tiny bodies. It’s immensely more obscene than a photo of an aborted fetus, and “they” want us all to see *that*.
12The only thing that keeps me even partially sane is the thought that “this too shall pass.”
This could be a huge “wedgie” issue for the Repugs in 2014. I fear the worst. But, I guess, it’s some kind of sane gun control now. or never. And James, you are right on man.
13@wally, I suspect “most Texans want” this representation in the same way that little kids want ice cream for every meal: sounds really, really good, and we want all the good stuff. What those same Texans/kids don’t understand is how much harm a steady diet of ice cream would do and, ultimately, how unsatisfying it would become. But these nimrods keep pushing the ice cream without mentioning the calories, lack of nutrition, and tooth decay, and their constituents keep buying that garbage.
14Cruz is irrelevant – – so he is running for President. But it would be more appropriate for him to run for Vice President on a ticket with Sarah Palin.
The Constitution provides for a “well regulated militia….” Someone should ask Cruz what he thinks this means. Let’s see what his consultants tell him to say.
15Sadly, the re-election rate for sitting Senators is over 80%. Rafael raised over $14 million to run against Paul Sadler, now he can tap into ‘real money.’ Alas.
16As the very wise Sam Rayburn said: “I’d feel a lot better if some of them had run for sheriff just once.” Cruz is the poster child for awkward amateur teabaggery. He should provide popcorn fare for forty-nine states while Texans pretend they don’t know who he is.
17JJ may remember this, or maybe she was just too young: I have never gotten over the embarrassment of having only one of 6 (!) Senators voting AGAINST the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (the one mandating that public businesses have to serve everybody) be from Texas. That would be John Tower. Oh, and Barry Goldwater voted against it, too. LBJ was President at the time, and even I (at an age too young to actually vote) didn’t foresee the slippery slope we were on. I mean, Ralph Yarborough was a Senator from Texas and you couldn’t get more Progressive than HE.
The thought that Ted Cruz is the heir to either LBJ or Ralph Yarborough just makes me want to cry. I’m not sure even Tower would go along with these morons.
18LBJ said he had given away the Southern vote for ?100 years? when he signed the Civil Rights Bill. I’d have to do some googling for the exact amount but he was right on. Just wonder what he and Sam Rayburn would say about today’s Congress? I pray every day for Lloyd Doggett to live to be 150 years old.
19Cruz for President? What a wet dream! He was born in Canada where his father worked at that time. His daddy came into the U.S. as a Cuban refugee who once supported Fidel Castro. What I want to know here is was his daddy a U.S. citizen by the time he was posted to Canada by his employer? If his daddy was not a signed and sworn citizen, how does he figure to ever reach the Oval Office? Maybe on a guided tour? Incidentally, it can take as much as 10 years to get citizenship. There is no such thing as instant citizenship like instant coffee or tea.
20Maggie – his dad prolly not, but his mom was from Delaware. But there are plenty of other things that will disqualify him if he ever gets the itch. For one, he’s a crazy bagger.
21James, I agree with your sentiment but the fact is that lots of Germans went about their daily work ignoring the Jewish slaves in factories and the huge crematoria within visual range of their cities. I feel like we have more online and on TV that if anyone at all is doing something gross, a lot of people will holler. Not that they’ll do anything. I cannot believe that Ted Cruz got elected. Make noise, y’all!
22After considering Cruz, and Gohmert, and DeLay, and Armey, Farenthold, Perry, Dewhurst, etc., may I suggest that the 2014 campaign slogan for the Democratic Party of Texas should be, “VOTE DEMOCRATIC, TEXAS HAS BEEN EMBARRASSED ENOUGH!
23Already traveling about : https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q9u1sLQRZuQ
24Oh, Lord. I was trying to eat my dinner tonight while listening to Judy Woodruff interview this fool on the PBS Newshour this evening. I kept shouting at the TV and slapping my forehead at the constant stream of Rethug, STOOPID talking points he delivered. He earned at least five Pinocchios just in a matter of a few minutes of blathering. He’s just another Teabagging idiot, voted in by a bunch of know-nothings. Thanks a lot.
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