Still in Austin
I can usually sneak away without you ever knowing but I left my computer at home and for some danged reason my iPad is not cooperating with the new upgrade of my website. I’ll fiddle with it later. Well, that’s a damn lie. My geek will fiddle with it later.
I have so enjoyed watching Ted Cruz try to be Wendy Davis. You know, except for the bathroom breaks, the sitting down breaks, the talking off topic breaks, the letting someone else talk breaks, the eating breaks, the breaks to whip up an omelet in the Senate dining room, the Home Shopping Network break to see of they have a genuine Ted Cruz doll for all your Christmas gift-giving needs breaks, and the what the hell is your endgame break.
Ted Cruz is a wimpy filibuster. It’s not even a filibuster – it’s a full of bluster.
Here’s what you need to do, for every hour that Ted talks, go donate $1. to the Texas Democratic Party.
See ya this afternoon. My morning is full of meetings.
As Steve Benen reported this morning, Cruz even flubbed the message of “Green Eggs and Ham,” saying that it shows that when Americans get a taste of Obamacare, they’ll realize that they don’t like it.
Maybe that’s in the Canadian version of the book.
1Some folks on Twitter are calling Maple Leaf Teddy’s talkfest a “Fauxlibuster”
2Andy Borowitz has stumbled onto a idea that both parties can get behind:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/09/senate-reaches-bipartisan-deal-to-shut-down-ted-cruz.html#
3Can I use “full of bluster” a few times?
4I’m enjoying watching Sen Dick Durbin kick Teddy’s ass.
5“There is an old saying that applies perfectly to Ted Cruz: ‘Never in doubt, seldom right.'”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-peyronnin/clipping-the-wings-of-cru_b_3983026.html
Oh, yeah.
6I like #foolibuster myself. Any thoughts on who he will choose for his VP running mate? He’s going to be the 45th President you know.
7Tedster will choose Darth Vadar.
8It’s a sillibuster.
9I’m not a resident of Texas, but I can’t even stand to see that fool’s smarmy face on my TV; I made a donation to TX Dems. You folks get to work now, ya hear, and best of luck making this tool a one-term guy.
10I got your Green Eggs and Ham right here:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/green-eggs-ham
11? maggie don’t VP’s have a 2 term limit or is the force really strong with that 1.
12Found this on DU
By Edward Z…..
Do you like the GOP?
I do not like them. No siree!
I do not like them in the House,
where endlessly they whine and grouse.
And in the Senate, maddening,
they filibuster everything.
Don’t like them on the internet,
or lying on my TV set.
I do not like them so far right,
I do not like that they’re ALL white.
I do not like them when they wink.
It scares me when they try to think.
I do not like their budget cuts.
I do not like that they are nuts!
If they’re the face of Uncle Sam,
then Uncle Sam don’t give a damn!
They like Tea, and green money,
but why, oh why, don’t they like me?
They will not help me keep my house.
They do not like my same-sex spouse.
They don’t like any news but FOX,
or black folks at the ballot box.
They don’t believe in warming air.
They REALLY hate Obamacare!
They sham and slam and send out spam.
13So sure I am, it’s all a scam.
It’s all for them, but none for me.
I do NOT like the GOP.
Who would have known that Cruz was featured on the Andy Griffith Show? In this classic the spoiled rich kid and Opie throw temper tantrums when they don’t get what they want!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSTdHClwwSg
14Hey Kyle! Wonderful parody. All of you, keep reminding folks it’s not a filibuster because there’s no vote being held up. I had to call a friend and get that straight.
15And I love the idea of using this for a fund-raiser for the TDP. Also love the Borowitz. I even included in our lunch time prayer today that God would do something about Ted Cruz.
16Now that the Raphael “Ted” Cruz Telethon To Raise Money for Clueless Canadians From Texas is over, I wonder how much he raised for his own self?
17Oh, this is wonderful fun, where is a Birther when you need one?
18http://www.salon.com/2013/09/20/ted_cruzs_origins_continue_to_haunt_him/
By the way, the scrolling headline on the TV said, “Cruz talks for 21 hours, Cloture passes 100 – 0.
Now that is what I call support!
19I think y’all are being kind of unfair by calling Cruz a Canadian. Canadians have good health care cheaper than ours, what Obamacare should have been if it weren’t based on the GOP model (before Obama touched it and it got cooties):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/matt-miller-canadians-dont-understand-ted-cruzs-health-care-battle/2013/09/25/ee2d6e6e-25d9-11e3-b75d-5b7f66349852_story.html
20Wendy Davis caused the march of tyranny to stumble. Ted Cruz caused a spike in the Senate’s lighting bill.
21This is a man who is in love with the sound of his own voice and cannot fathom why nobody else is.
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