4 thoughts on “Cruz Highlights”

  1. Color me confused. A 20-something hour filibuster that wasn’t a filibuster ends with 100 senators including Cruz voting FOR cloture, which s filibuster is intended to prevent. Let me quote dictionary.com.

    filibuster – a) the use of irregular or obstructive tactics by a member of a legislative assembly to prevent the adoption of a measure generally favored or to force a decision against the will of the majority.

    So what was the purpose of the stunt??! I have no objection to symbolic gestures – they can be important ie, the Boston Tea Party or Rosa Parks refusal to move. But a stunt, particularity a significant one, has some objective. There was none, except putting a spotlight on Sen Cruz – pure showboating.

    Had the filibuster continued, Cruz was blocking a vote on the CR which stripped funding for Obamacare. Ummm, Ted, that’s what you want – why filibuster? If the objective was to prevent the Senate from doing what they will, remove the language in the House bill that defunds Obamacare, you have to let the bill come up for discussion – otherwise it is in limbo forever.

    I’m sure the teabagggers are thrilled – but it’s like a trick play that was amusing (for some) to watch but lost yardage. And forced a punt.

  2. Hmm…
    He faux-filibustered against it, before he actually voted for it.
    Ted Cruz-ader – a flip-flopper?

    I just tuned into Imus for a moment, for the 2nd or 3rd time since he got the boot on MSNBC and ended up at FUX Bidness Channel – out of old reflex, and Cup O’ Schmoe’s morning-zoo show is now even worse than it ever was – and even he’s criticizing Ted Cruz.

    I’m sure Cruz-ader will come up with some BS about a technicality, that his adoring rubes will buy.
    But if he really wants to run for President, he’s better have a plan for getting around the establishment if he wants to be the Republican Party candidate for President. And, at least for now, FUX Noise, too.
    Either that, or if he wants to run, it’ll be as a 3rd Party candidate.
    And that is fine with me.

  3. William Rivers Pitt, Send In the Clowns:

    … The single greatest strength of the modern Republican Party, the source of all their power, what gives them their ability to confuse and derange any national conversation, is their utter and complete lack of shame. They will say anything – literally anything, no matter how contradictory or antithetical to what they said just yesterday – if it gives them the upper hand in a TV debate, allows them to play the victim or the victor at turns, and gives them the chance to keep genuine debate at arm’s length. Genuine debate is not their purpose in Washington DC. They know full well how full of it they are. They simply do not care.

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