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Welcome to Ted Cruz’s Thunderdome
New York Times ^
| October 5, 2013
| By Maureen Dowd
Posted on 10/05/2013 4:40:22 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The year is 2084, in the capital of the land formerly called North America.
The BlackBerrys that were pried from the hands of White House employees in 2013 are now piled up on the Potomac as a flood barrier against the ever-rising tide from melting ice caps. Their owners, unable to check their messages, went insane long ago.
Because there was no endgame, the capital’s hunger games ended in a gray void. Because there was no clean bill, now there is only a filthy stench. Because there was no wisdom, now there is only rot. The instigators, it turned out, didn’t even know what they were arguing for. Macho thrusts and feints, competing to win while the country lost.
Thomas Jefferson’s utopia devolved into Ted Cruz’s dystopia.
In 2084, there’s little sign of life in the godless and barren lost world. The insurance exchanges are open and the kinks are almost ironed out.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cruz; dowd; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
What crappe this way comes?
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posted on
10/05/2013 4:41:53 PM PDT
by
St_Thomas_Aquinas
( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
10/05/2013 4:42:19 PM PDT
by
anymouse
(God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
First Zeta-Jones pic!
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posted on
10/05/2013 4:43:01 PM PDT
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Barry and Michelle are “Master Blaster”
You decide which one is which...
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posted on
10/05/2013 4:43:02 PM PDT
by
Kolath
To: RightGeek
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posted on
10/05/2013 4:45:33 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
This is what happens to the brain when the love box is neglected for decades
Its a sad thing to witness
Dry dormant and barren
A veritable fibrous wasteland
Pity
Only left with bitter wrath
8
posted on
10/05/2013 4:47:28 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(the next Dark Ages are coming as Western Civilization crumbles with nary a whimper)
To: RightGeek
I saw her on TV not too long ago, and her Welsh genes are kicking in...she's not looking like that pic too much now.
Much saggier, everywhere.
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posted on
10/05/2013 4:47:56 PM PDT
by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Dowd has gone completely around the bend.
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posted on
10/05/2013 4:48:12 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
“Because there was no clean Bill, now there is only a filthy stench.”
Maureen! Just because your hero Blowjob Bill left the White House doesn’t mean you should call Obama “filthy stench”. Show a little decorum.
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posted on
10/05/2013 4:51:01 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
There's stupid.
Then there's NYT stupid.
Then there's Maureen Dowd stupid.
12
posted on
10/05/2013 4:52:27 PM PDT
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Maureen Dowd, partisan media shill, spilling her swill in the New York Slimes. Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.
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posted on
10/05/2013 4:54:01 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Maureen just STFU!! You are insane.
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posted on
10/05/2013 4:54:24 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: Timber Rattler
Bad plastic surgeries and chain smoking will do you in.
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posted on
10/05/2013 4:55:32 PM PDT
by
GOPsterinMA
(You're a very weird person, Yossarian.)
To: Timber Rattler
There’s nothing more pitiful than an old, lied-out liberal crashing on the rocks of reality.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Dear Maureen: You use too many words to convey your message. Too many words is like too much crap in the toilet. It stinks and makes a s**tty mess. Love and kisses!
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posted on
10/05/2013 4:59:09 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
“Auntie” Obama?
Or, in his case...should we say “Awntee”?
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posted on
10/05/2013 5:02:52 PM PDT
by
digger48
To: Lazamataz
Dowd has gone completely around the bend. Times...it is so 1980's...
Dowd...dropped into fantasy land, but we all like SciFi, right?
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posted on
10/05/2013 5:04:51 PM PDT
by
Ganndy
(Remember to Vote - don't ever, ever 'forget'...)
To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
No Maureen, we simply hate communism. Not that you would recognize it as anything but, “just an equivalent, but different government formation”...sadly, but most liberals are too stupid, willfully stupid.
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posted on
10/05/2013 5:06:06 PM PDT
by
CincyRichieRich
(“Life is hard, but it’s harder when you’re stupid.” John Wayne)
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