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Ted Cruz launches faux filibuster as Senate readies spending bill vote

You're right, nothing like making an example of how politics should really be run like reading green eggs and ham on the Senate floor. WE APPLAUD YOU TED CRUZ.

After hours on the floor, Ted Cruz read Green Eggs and Ham as a bedtime story to his girls who had been watching their daddy, yesterday on C-SPAN from Texas.

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Thanks for the stellar example of how men can be just as catty as women.
 
After hours on the floor, Ted Cruz read Green Eggs and Ham as a bedtime story to his girls who had been watching their daddy, yesterday on C-SPAN from Texas.

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Thanks for the stellar example of how men can be just as catty as women.

I'm sorry, I don't pay my taxes so he can come and read on the Senate floor to his kids. If he cares so much about his kids he would be at home with them and reading to them. Not wasting time and money to do it in a professional setting.
 
I'm sorry, I don't pay my taxes so he can come and read on the Senate floor to his kids. If he cares so much about his kids he would be at home with them and reading to them. Not wasting time and money to do it in a professional setting.

Better wake up because Cruz is calling your attention to what is going on in D.C. and the big power grab that is happening. If this is all you got out of what he did then you are part of the problem not part of the solution.

Some people claim Paul Harvey was crazy too and now the same comments about Ted Cruz. Pay attention to Harvey and see if he sounds so crazy now.

If I Were the Devil by PAUL HARVEY
 
Are you seriously going to try comparing Ted Cruz to Reagan??
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He just tried it.

A few far right losers on this forum might buy into his comparison, but not enough of the 300 million potential American voters ever will. The only way that Cruz will ever see the inside of the White House is as a visitor.

"Better days are coming." ~ But not for today's out of touch, running out of time, GOP.
 
I'm sorry, I don't pay my taxes so he can come and read on the Senate floor to his kids. If he cares so much about his kids he would be at home with them and reading to them. Not wasting time and money to do it in a professional setting.

The Senate had finished its morning business before Cruz was recognized the floor.
Senate Floor Schedule for Tuesday, September 24, 2013 | Senate Democrats

Your pettiness is astounding. Going to quibble over 3 or 4 minutes compared to the wasted years of some Republicans in the Senate not taking every opportunity to fight Obamacare from being implemented and have instead become appeasers.
 
He just tried it.

A few far right losers on this forum might buy into his comparison, but not enough of the 300 million potential American voters ever will. The only way that Cruz will ever see the inside of the White House is as a visitor.

"Better days are coming." ~ But not for today's out of touch, running out of time, GOP.

What you fail to recognize is that Obama's incompetence my make the GOP the permanent party. Better days are indeed ahead once Obama leaves office or this country is really screwed. How Obama supporters can continue to support this empty suit is beyond comprehension.
 
He just tried it.

A few far right losers on this forum might buy into his comparison, but not enough of the 300 million potential American voters ever will. The only way that Cruz will ever see the inside of the White House is as a visitor.

"Better days are coming." ~ But not for today's out of touch, running out of time, GOP.

I can't put my finger on it, but Cruz seems somehow fundamentally different. I wonder whether he envisions a path to the White House that's not bounded by the legal process.:peace
 
What you fail to recognize is that Obama's incompetence my make the GOP the permanent party. Better days are indeed ahead once Obama leaves office or this country is really screwed.
How Obama supporters can continue to support this empty suit is beyond comprehension.




Believe whatever you want to believe, it won't put Cruz in the White House. That will take the votes of a lot more Americans than those who voted for Romney last year.

Don't take my word for it, just wait and see. He will end up like Mitt Romney did last November.Cruz is out of touch with most Americans and that will be clear in any future election.
 
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I can't put my finger on it, but Cruz seems somehow fundamentally different. I wonder whether he envisions a path to the White House that's not bounded by the legal process.:peace

A military coup?
 
Better wake up because Cruz is calling your attention to what is going on in D.C. and the big power grab that is happening. If this is all you got out of what he did then you are part of the problem not part of the solution.

Some people claim Paul Harvey was crazy too and now the same comments about Ted Cruz. Pay attention to Harvey and see if he sounds so crazy now.

If I Were the Devil by PAUL HARVEY

His own party voted to end his filibuster.
 
Reading Childrens Books...he is standing up for what is right!

I know what your problem is.....a junior senator shed light on the failures of the Republican establishment to stand up against Obamacare. And just like the senators took it personal, so do you. And just like the senators used tactics such as using their staffers to trash Cruz or have their heavy lifters like Rove do it for them in a PERSONAL way, you too make it personal instead of looking at the failures within the party such as this appeasement mentality that results in one failed election after another. Like several Republicans in the Senate have forgotten they work for their constituents and find it annoying if they remind them of that, you too find it annoying. Most moderates do.
 
Let's see if I have this right, you say you respect the Tea Party members of Congress yet call them Tea Party nuts. :doh

The purpose for bringing up Gingrich and Santorum in the primaries was to point out the dirty dealings of the Republican elites against Conservatives/Libertarians in general within the party. The same type of elites among Republican senators that have been demonizing Cruz and others. You've shown us which side of the bread you have buttered and are in full alignment with the elites. After all, you think Jeb Bush (because he has gravitas) will be the next president and the Republican elites would salivate over such a prospect.

The two seats lost in the Senate, during the 2012 election may mean multiple but that isn't what you were originally getting at when you stated multiple for you included examples of certain races that Republicans lost that you felt they should have won making it greater than just two, an exaggeration on your part. And you also failed to credit the gains in the Senate in 2010 by the Tea Party and their efforts that regained the House. It's amazing what they have been able to accomplish not just fighting their opposition but also those within their own party.

No, you don't have it right - after that, I stopped reading.
 
He just tried it.

A few far right losers on this forum might buy into his comparison, but not enough of the 300 million potential American voters ever will. The only way that Cruz will ever see the inside of the White House is as a visitor.

"Better days are coming." ~ But not for today's out of touch, running out of time, GOP.

Oh really? Even the moderate Republican, Matt Drudge who supported Romney last election, stated today that Cruz and Rand Paul are the new heart of the Republican party and also stated Chris Christie has an uphill battle to overcome this momentum.
The chairman of the Republican National Committee released a statement that he supports Cruz's efforts to stop Obamacare and urged the fellow Republicans in the Senate to support his efforts. Reid says he had the votes prior to Cruz's efforts, we shall see if he still has them soon enough. It is going to take at least 5 Republicans to vote with the Democrats to meet Cloture to raise the debt ceiling and still fund Obamacare. Those 5 Republicans that vote for it, will be voting to end their careers as senators. That's a give me.
 
Oh really? Even the moderate Republican, Matt Drudge who supported Romney last election, stated today that Cruz and Rand Paul are the new heart of the Republican party and also stated Chris Christie has an uphill battle to overcome this momentum.
The chairman of the Republican National Committee released a statement that he supports Cruz's efforts to stop Obamacare and urged the fellow Republicans in the Senate to support his efforts. Reid says he had the votes prior to Cruz's efforts, we shall see if he still has them soon enough. It is going to take at least 5 Republicans to vote with the Democrats to meet Cloture to raise the debt ceiling and still fund Obamacare. T
hose 5 Republicans that vote for it, will be voting to end their careers as senators. That's a give me.




That's what you think, but that doesn't mean that it's going to happen. Wait and see, the extreme right is not going to take over the USA. Obamacare is settled law, it's not going away. The GOP will just have to deal with it as reality whether they like it or not.
 
That's what you think, but that doesn't mean that it's going to happen. Wait and see, the extreme right is not going to take over the USA. Obamacare is settled law, it's not going away. The GOP will just have to deal with it as reality whether they like it or not.

Amazing because one believes in the first principles of freedom and liberty that makes you "extreme right" these days. Ha! says a lot about how far we have strayed. To fight against very bad law that is so unfair and costly to many while others get exempted from it makes one a radical these days.
 
Amazing because one believes in the first principles of freedom and liberty that makes you "extreme right" these days. Ha! says a lot about how far we have strayed.
To fight against very bad law that is so unfair and costly to many while others get exempted from it makes one a radical these days.
Be as radical as you want to me, this is a free country and it won't cost me a nickel.
 
Except that Cruz' filibuster, which technically was not a filibuster (confused yet? - LOL), lasted a little over an hour. What the hell was that? Was THAT the amount of time he was able to stand on his feet? Jesus!! I know people who stood in line for hours just to get an iPhone. Cruz - You are a *****. LOL.

Article is here.

He was just speaking his mind, something pols are no longer allowed to do.
 
They should be forced to pee their pants or give up the podium. That's the American way!! :lol:

Eh, he's a self-absorbed, ambitious jerk with delusions of future grandeur... which is what his grandstanding now is all about in the first place.

Au contraire, there was actually zero political benefit for him to take such a stand. He did it because he believed it was the right thing to say--and he told the truth--the GOP pols in the Senate and House largely support Obamacare.

He should commended for taking his stand. His arguments against Obamacare were overblown (i. e. it wouldn't hurt as many small businesses as he suggested), but O-care is still bad law, and needs to disappear.
 
Oh really? Even the moderate Republican, Matt Drudge who supported Romney last election, stated today that Cruz and Rand Paul are the new heart of the Republican party and also stated Chris Christie has an uphill battle to overcome this momentum.
The chairman of the Republican National Committee released a statement that he supports Cruz's efforts to stop Obamacare and urged the fellow Republicans in the Senate to support his efforts. Reid says he had the votes prior to Cruz's efforts, we shall see if he still has them soon enough. It is going to take at least 5 Republicans to vote with the Democrats to meet Cloture to raise the debt ceiling and still fund Obamacare. Those 5 Republicans that vote for it, will be voting to end their careers as senators. That's a give me.

Even if that were true, it doesn't mean anything, unless those pols whose careers were ended were replaced by someone that actually represented the voters' interests.

And that won't happen, because the US is a plutocracy. Voters are only permitted to select from candidates hand-picked by insurance cos. that love Obamacare.
 
Hey kids, a nonsequitur and a personal attack.

But I'm glad you think emergency room treatment is an alternative to universal coverage. Great plan!

O-care doesn't provide universal coverage. It only provides a universal requirement to pay insurance co. premiums.
 
You're right, nothing like making an example of how politics should really be run like reading green eggs and ham on the Senate floor. WE APPLAUD YOU TED CRUZ.

Eggs and ham are hard to come by these days at most restaurants in the US.

What you will get if you order eggs and ham is a pasteurized egg combined w/partially hydrogenated oil, and a tiny piece of meat chock full of nitrites and preservatives, much like most GOP pols in Congress.
 
And Politifact was wrong. They are not a sacred unbiased source.

Thanks for clarifying :2wave:

I never said they were.... like all forms of media, they make some salient points; they make mistakes.
 
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