Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Happening Now: Ted Cruz Appears to Filibuster ObamaCare

"I rise in opposition to Obamacare," the Texas Republican began. This speech may go on for a while.

"Until I'm no longer able to stand".


TPM: Ted Cruz's Long Speech To Block Obamacare Funding Is No Filibuster.

19 comments:

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Even if its not a real filibuster... lets say that it could be a fake but accurate stunt.

If the law turns out to be the fiasco we are predicting, we will be able to point to the times we said loud and clear.

'Ted Cruz told you so'

It makes sense politically.

test said...

allanbrauer says: May your children all die from debilitating, painful and incurable diseases.

It makes you wonder what the left will say about him now.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

The politics Ted Cruz is doing here is the politics of 'for me to get anywhere I have to gamble and I have to gamble big'.

Playing it safe, the odds are staked against him.

XRay said...

I know, I'm setting myself up for a fall.

But I'm hoping Cruz is doing this out of conviction and certainty, without selfish political calculation.

As it seems to me that the result, surely to fail, isn't the point. The point is that at least one man is willing to stand up and say the truth... similar to whomever it was that called the asshole a liar during the SOTU address.

Out of such small and seemingly insignificant events are movements built.

Haha... dreamer that I am.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

This will surely make the Democrat racket media seethe with psychotic rage

Titus said...

When he needs to pinch a loaf is there a teabagger nearby to wipe his ass?

Now there is a job for some of our not employed commenters would be more than eager to perform.

It would probably we beneficial if they were either Harvard, Yale or Princeton though.

Birches said...

Total defunding is probably not going to happen. But they might be able to get all those waivers reversed. He keeps going back to it and it resonates with people who don't have the luxury of a waiver. I think that's where a win is possible.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

The waivers are a big deal.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Cruz is talking about what I have been saying for years.
ObamaCare is designed to collapse- with single payer 100% tax payer funded socialist government controlled health care up next.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Collapsing and destroying the private health care market is job #1 for Harry Reid.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Process designed not to debate.

That's because Harry Reid is a fascist dictator.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Drudge has a nice live feed.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

I think it's good that Bill Clinton is hitching his wagon to ObamaCare. That will only hurt Hillary.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...


Obama gives Obamacare Waivers to congress and staffers. You pay, they don't.

Read the sneaky way he did it. This is why some greedy a-hole republicans are lying about it.

Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said...

It would seem that if Obamacare is really the doomed to fail monstrosity of fevered Republican imaginings, then the simplest strategy would be to let it fail under its own gargantuan weight.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Is he still talking? God I love him.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Sadly, its gargantuan weight will drag a lot of people, and even the nation, down with it.

I wonder why so many democrat supporting unions are against Obamacare?

sakredkow said...

Every one of those cocksuckers that voted for this monstrosity should be put on a wall and dropped with a noose around their necks.

It's always "Sell Sell Sell!" with you righties. No wonder you're winning the propoganda wars.

Methadras said...

phx said...

Every one of those cocksuckers that voted for this monstrosity should be put on a wall and dropped with a noose around their necks.

It's always "Sell Sell Sell!" with you righties. No wonder you're winning the propoganda wars.


The left has been extremely successful at cowing the right with epithetical phraseology. That's the proud legacy the left can claim stake too.