Posted on 01/20/2015 5:36:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
When President Barack Obama speaks tonight during his State of the Union address, all Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) will be hearing is actor Christopher Walken’s iconic voice.
Asked by a reporter Tuesday whether he found anything to like in Obama’s proposal to impose new fees on big banks, Politico reported that Cruz compared the president’s ideas to Walken’s most famous “Saturday Night Live” sketch where the actor plays a music producer.
“To every problem his solution was, ‘more cowbell, more cowbell.’ This president, to every problem his solution is ‘more taxes, more government,'” Cruz said.
“He’s not listening to the voters, but like Christopher Walken’s [character] he’s saying ‘more cowbell, more cowbell.'”
This is not the first time Cruz has compared Obama to a walking ‘SNL’ skit.
Back in December, he slammed the president’s failed foreign policy decisions as Obama prepared to nominated his administration’s fourth defense secretary.
“You literally cannot make this stuff up. If ‘Saturday Night Live’ were parodying a hapless, ineffective President, they couldn’t make things up worse,” Cruz said at that time.
Cruz also once famously mimicked Dana Carvey doing a George H.W. Bush ‘Saturday Night Live’ skit on the Senate floor while fighting a campaign finance amendment he feared could put political speech at risk.
Watch the Walken skit below:
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Very good, Mr. Cruz.
WHAMMO! Out of the park! AMEN!
THAT is what I want "Republican" to be, and it is the only thing I will vote for in any case.
I was frankly disappointed in Joni Ernst, from what I saw of her speech. Pretty standard RINO.
:^(
More Cowbell SNL skit here.
http://vimeo.com/91715361
Obama, “What Amurrrickuh needz iz more Dumbo!” *flaps ears*
Cruz is smart. He can create his own memes and symbology.
CRUZ or BUST!!!
more cow****.
In before EEE posts an anti-choice post /SoConPubbie
+/_\ !!
It is too bad comedians won’t target the left and Obama, they’d get great ratings and lots of cash probably (nowadays they’d just get fired)
(most dignified John Kerry voice, in French):
“Here in France, you seen to have a fever, and I believe the only prescription is more James Taylor.”
I got a fever... And the only prescription.. is MORE TAXES.
So that came from SNL? No wonder it always mystified me.
The solution for a coming ice age in the 1970's, was of course, more cow bell.
The solution for global warming in the 1990's, was of course, more cow bell.
The solution for a changing climate in the 2010's, is of course, more cow bell.
And on and on it goes.
Reporter asks a typically loaded question. Cruz snacks it out of the park. An answer that is witty and memorable.
Well, Prof. Dershowitz did say Cruz was one of his brightest students.
This is why Cruz can win. You don’t hear any other viable Republicans making pop culture references that resonate with the under 40 crowd, do you?
Well said!
And he’s not the only professor who had Cruz in class that says that.
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