The Government Shutdown Does Not Include Ted Cruz’s Mouth
He eats bullets for breakfast so he can shoot off his mouth all day long.
Ted Cruz: the man who didn’t say what he just said. On Saturday night in Virginia —
Cruz, who spoke without notes for nearly an hour, said Republicans would win the shutdown fight but offered little in the way of concrete solutions.
But then on Sunday, he denied saying that.
“You talked last night — you were at a Virginia Republican event in Richmond and said Republicans will win this,” Crowley said. “And by that, I believe you meant what you wanted in exchange for a spending bill. What does win this mean to you? What does that have to look like for a Republican victory?”
But the junior senator from Texas denied the premise of Crowley’s question.
“Let me be clear, I didn’t say Republicans will win this,” he said. “Listen, I think career politicians in both parties have been part of the problem. What I said is the American people are going to win.”
Because by “we” and “Republicans” he means the American people. The Democrats and us are not the American people. We are teenage mutant zombie turtle communist socialists illegal aliens and probably regular aliens from Mars who hate America and who are not obsessed with Obamacare like we should be.
Polls have shown that Americans overwhelmingly oppose shutting down the government to stop the Affordable Care Act. A Quinnipiac University poll released last week also found that 58 percent are opposed to Congress cutting off funding for the law.
Here’s my opinion. By “we”, Ted Cruz means himself and three dozen old guys in Florida who want you to get the hell off their lawn.
Gulp! On behalf of my Canadian cousins, please do not blame Cruz on Canada! Pretty please!
1Oh, go ahead and send Cruz to Canada. It’s full of wide-open spaces and they can deal with him easy peasy.
2The Republicans keep bringing up the talking point that they are trying to do what the “American people want”. They do not mean the majority of Americans marching in the other direction. They just mean the losing minority of people, that represent, by and large, Faux News viewers. The rest of us are not “real” Americans.
3Yo TEXAS y’all owe the rest of the country a gigantic apology for inflicting this anarchist on the rest of the nation.
Born in Canada. Father fought alongside Castro. Led a shutdown of the U.S. government. If this were Obama they’d be calling him a traitor.
4Has anyone else heard that this debacle is about a tax on medical equipment? Which lobby is so strong they can shut the government down over a tax on one item?
5“We are teenage mutant zombie turtle communist socialists illegal aliens and probably regular aliens from Mars who hate America and who are not obsessed with Obamacare like we should be.”
You left out homosexual. Just sayin’…
6@Cindy–It’s a moving target: medical equipment, Obamacare, the debt ceiling, Benghazi–doesn’t matter what it’s about, as long as Crud and his cronies “win.” They’ve made that pretty clear.
My mom used to say, “Her/his mind went off and left his mouth running.” Pretty well describes this bunch, doesn’t it?
7The tax on medical equipment is just a very small part of the argument. And it is one on which the Dems are willing to negotiate, though not as part of the Repub extortion attempt.
8God Bless you Ted Cruz and may you never get laryngitis.
9Another thread in the nightmare: the guy who attacked the driver of the SUV running away from the bikers in New York City is also named Cruz. A number of commenters have been pointing out certain similarities between the biker and the Tedster.
10There’s a reason tedcruz can’t get his head outta his butt.
11Until he can get his foot outta his mouth, he can’t drag the rest of it out.
Are all of you with teabagging, republican, conservative, wing nut,
representatives calling them everyday to tell them of your dissatisfaction with their choices?
Because those of us who do not live in their districts cannot even send them an email.
12Call them if you have them for a representative. If only the people who are happy with them call, they think they are winning.
Make them think again about what they are doing.
OleScout, that mental picture is hilarious!
Cruz and his Repugs say over and over that “the majority of the American people” don’t want Obamacare. It flies in the face of credulity. The majority of American people re-elected Mr. Obama precisely because of the Affordable Care Act, which has been upheld by the Supremes. Here’s hoping the Dems in the House override Boner and pass that clean CR, with the help of any Repugnican who has half a brain left.
13To Diane: I have told my teajihadist rep Joe Pitts that every time I don’t like something that one of his House colleagues does, he will get a nasty email. It’s running two or three a day now…Isn’t it grand that you can’t email those privileged lugs who are our employees? I have tried phoning, but my voice gets quivery and I start to shake with pure, unadulterated rage and I forget what I was going to say. Stagefright. My husband pursues Pitts wherever he goes, but Pitts Pol Pot would rather die than meet the public, even in this gerrymandered state.
14Imagine the precedent that would be set if the administration agrees to “negotiate” over a legitimately enacted law that the opposition wants to use to hold either the budget of the debt ceiling hostage. Do it once, and it will happen again, whether the Republicans or the Democrats would be in the minority. It would just be plain bad government, pure and simple. When there exists means to paralyze representative governments, they are ultimately doomed.
15Ted Cruz has perfected the art of tossing word salad.
Senator Cruz, do you think it will rain today?
Well, look, our home and native land, which commands true patriot love in all its sons… and, uh… daughters… with their glowing hearts. All Americans want to see us rise, strong and free. From far and near, oh… um America, is not subject to alluvial deluge if we stand on guard against it. God will keep our land glorious and free. Oh, ahhhh merica, America, we stand on guard for Tea. Oh, America, we stand on guard for Tea.
Yes, but the rain?
I think I made myself clear in my previous answer.
16Maryelle –
Thankyou.
Your case that the facts don’t support republi-can’t cant is the reason we have the problem with the media.
Everyone knows the republi-can’ts are lieing, but unless there is news value in the knowledge, there is no reportage [think French here]. Remember editors and reporters went to collich to become ‘journalists’, and in collich they learned:
1. Get a quite
2. Get a photo
3. Exaggerate the confrontation
4. If there is no conflict, compartmentalize the facts and draw conflict with words
5. Move-on to the next ‘story’.
This is the curriculum for a Masters’ in Journalism.
17Outstanding!
From ‘Mother Jones’:
The Shutdown in 10 Infuriating Sentences
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/10/shutdown-debt-ceiling-explained
18The funniest thing happened at the Ted Cruz – Ken Cuccinelli joint venture in Virginia. Cuccinelli didn’t want to be seen with Cruz and left before the Tedster’s hour-long speech began. If that WRNJ Cuccinelli wouldn’t be seen with Cruz! I think he has some problems. http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/cuccinelli-shuns-cruz-limelight-97888.html
19Over 70% of the medical equipment being taxed is produced offshore and the manufacturers agreed to the tax when it was proposed!
20OMG! No wonder Sarah Palin loves this mutt! Dominionist parentage, Check, Rill Amerkan. Check, Word Salad passed the Sarah Palin “I can understand Ted from my House” test. Check!
21Someone should be afflicting the Koch Bros. offices; it’s their money that’s funding this junk
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