Because With Obamacare, America Ain’t Worth Saving
Ted Cruz. Because he eats bullets for breakfast and then shoots off his mouth all day, that’s why.
Ted Cruz is now threatening to shut down the military unless we defund Obamacare.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Sunday warned Senate Republicans that refusing to filibuster a bill that defunds President Barack Obama’s health care reform law “is a vote for Obamacare,” and he also advised House Republicans to “shut down the military” if they had to.
He appears to be serious. But then you never know because he obviously wasn’t being serious when he ran on the platform that he’d be a good Senator.
I suspect he has a PLAN B. As you know, Texas has many well-reguated militias, some of them having only member and others intent on shooting each other … but well regulated by some magical force that makes them stockpile ammo and Lone Star beer.
Billy Bob and Bubba Hank can take on them Russian and then them A-rabs, too.
They’ve got themselves a bunker right outside of El Campo and they have enough beer and missile launchers to protect South Korea. With the help of the Teds – Nugent and Cruz – they got this thing under control.
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Ahhhhhh. Looks like Ted is about to get spanked by Senators McCain and Graham. Rand will smooch him properly, though.
1Shutting down the government isn’t going to sit well with Wall Street and the military industry. Both are going to take a strap to their confused servants, also known as Republican Congressmen. Stern talks will happen this week – and they will fall back in line. They know who their masters are.
2Shutting down the government means all military personnel pay checks will stop including for those on active service overseas. This in wartime.
Yes, they will get paid eventually but exactly what their dependents are supposed to do meanwhile is something that does not appear to be a concern in Republikistan.
Crazy Ted doesn’t have a firm grasp on how things really work, the administrative nuts and bolts process. He comes from the old Dubya mold, “I want this, make it happen”
Kinda European old style monarchy when you think about it.
3Hey, Cruz-ero! What you blabbed sounds mighty like treason as in an attack on the our military rendering them helpless to defend us. Just keep blatherin’, darlin’. I’m betting your are going to suddenly have the hobby of putting all your lawyers in alpha order.
4We were watching a program on Joe McCarthy.
McCarthy looked like he could have been Raphael’s father or uncle. Nasty piece of work, too.
Why aren’t these republicans considered traitors to the US?
They are literally trying to destroy this country. they are irresponsible and are turning on the people that elected them.
The republicans would do well to remember history. Newt Gingrich has a big ole’ star next to his name for being a has been instead of a leader of his party.
Interesting that the republicans have started to wake up to the dangers withing their own party. I wonder if they are able to stop that one way track to oblivion!
5It is now being said that Cruz must have been bitten by an animal infected with rabies because he is acting like a mad dog!
I guess I would agree with that!
6You think maybe the Koch brothers are laughing their heads off over this mess? I feel like they think the world is a big board game and they control the pieces.
7I love that cat graphic!!
@Marge Wood … I think you are right on the money with your comment!!
8@Marge Wood
Funny you said that because Monopoly removed the “Jail” part of the game.
Real life changed a board game around since the 1930s.
Good Grief.
9Just been reading some articles saying that a government shutdown will cost us (the American taxpayers, i.e. not the 1%) over $2 BILLION dollars
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/23/a-government-shutdown-will-cost-us-billions/?tid=pm_business_pop
And that when asked if a shutdown (not mentioning the $2 BILLION) figure was worth it to stop Obamacare, those polled were agin it 59-19.
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/most-americans-against-defunding-obamacare-cnbc-survey-4B11231267
I hope those folks have long memories stretching at least to the next couple of election days.
10Diane, compare some of the photos of Paisley Cruz with old photos of Mussolini. Scary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
11The cat is priceless!
12So, I’m in NYC, after a day and a half at the National Book Festival (y’all will be happy to learn that Texas’ own overage cheerleader, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, was here too, but I was happy to have her gone when I arrived) and I noticed that dear Sen Cruz was flapping his jaw again. And again. And again.
So tonight, despite being stuck writing on a miserable onscreen keyboard, I wrote him and told him that as a Texan and a veteran, I considered him a disgrace, a scoundrel, a fake Texan, and a traitor. That’s the short form. I went into as much detail as I could using this dad gum keyboard and its stupid autocorrect. (Dadgum is one word, dammit.)
13Elizabeth–Bravo for your effort, but you’re working on the assumptions that (a) Carnival can read and (b) he would even bother to read anything negative, much less act on it. Nothing I have ever sent any of the rwnjs who are supposed to “represent” me has ever gotten a response that suggests they have a clue what my position is; they normally just thank me for supporting theirs. I think the only hope is to get physically in their faces, with witnesses…
14Elizabeth, with your inconvenient keyboard you could have copied the British gent who sent a telegram to a politician:
“Dear Sir: To hell with you. Offensive letter follows.”
15I think that Cruz is acting less like a mad dog and more like the virus that infected the dog. Viruses can end up destroying their own host.
16I admit I don’t expect Cruz to read it himself or change his diaper of a mind (yeah, that means what it implies) but maybe one of his Bright Young Things will, and there’s always hope of redemption.
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