Posted on 02/06/2016 6:09:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
TED Cruz does things differently.
That's precisely how the current contender for the White House first rose to national attention in the US.
He got to his feet in the Senate and embarked on a 21 hour marathon speech, punctuated by bathroom breaks and reading aloud from a Dr Seuss book.
This was his moment. It was 2013, and the dramatic stunt would precipitate the infamous US government shut down.
The speech was intended by Cruz to delay key government business in a bid to make his opposition to Obamacare clear.
Cruz, filling time, read Green Eggs and Ham aloud -- directed, apparently, to his children who were watching him on live TV at home -- when he wasn't eviscerating the President's plans for health care....
(Excerpt) Read more at heraldsun.com.au ...
The Green Eggs ham, huh.
Interesting. Cruz refuses to directly answer questions like every politician like #1 and #2. People are fed up with this stuff from politicians.
Keep driving Ted. For now, just cruise.
News Corp.
I guess the Aussies never heard of a filibuster.
And it was Obama and Harry Reid who “shut down” the government. Cruz and the rest of the Republicans were burning the midnight oil trying to keep the government open while the democrats were a no show.
Also, only 17% of the government was shut down during the so-called “shut down.”
What Ted Cruz are you talking about?
So you have to glom on to EVERY Cruz thread?
Bingo
Right wing hardliner?
Nope, no bias there.
Get real and castrate the Dindus, islamos and Gibsmedats and I’ll believe it.
They forgot the ‘Far’ part.
What a joke. Are you serious?
I’m afraid cruz just came in behind our new vice president who decapitated Rinio. VP CHRISTIE!!!
As a former British subject, maybe Cruise could be prime minister of Australia?
I didn’t write the article.
So...some leftwing Skippy disses Cruz as a right winger who opposes Obamacare. Oh the horror!
Ted’s all choked up. They don’t like him in Down Under.
;^)
When a person who just wants to follow the Constitution as written is considered hard right wing, that shows that the people lodging the claim are leaning to the left so much, they have fallen in the socialist manure pile.
Next up: not spending any more than you take in is “austerity” and cruel to women, minorities and those on welfare.
Oh my Lord! You need to do standup comedy.
Bingo.
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