Bad Blood Between Ted Cruz And The Senate
BY Herschel Smith
8 years, 7 months ago
I had always wondered about a more detailed listing of why the Senate hates Ted Cruz. NPR tries.
Probably the most awkward question you can ask Republican senators these days is why they’re still giving Ted Cruz the cold shoulder when it comes to endorsements.
“Well, I think you know the answer to that,” said Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma.
“I’m going to let you … speculate about that,” offered Lamar Alexander of Tennessee.
“I think it’s pretty obvious,” said Dean Heller of Nevada, without elaborating further.
No, it’s not obvious, jerk off. I don’t want to speculate – I want you to be man enough to explain in words why you hate the man.
During Cruz’s very first year in the Senate, he and a group of House Republicans helped force a 16-day government shutdown. At the time, in 2013, he crowed about it. But his Senate Republican colleagues were fuming. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire said Cruz had led them on with a promise to defund Obamacare.
“You know, we’ve been asking from the beginning: What’s the end game? How does this end? How do you achieve what you’re purporting to achieve on defunding Obamacare? And I never got an answer to that,” Ayotte told reporters when the government was reopening that October.
And then there was the time Cruz flirted with the idea of defunding the president’s executive action on immigration. He fumbled a procedural maneuver on the Senate floor, which forced his colleagues to come to work on a Saturday. Not the kind of smooth move that will earn one’s way into senators’ hearts.
So let me get this straight. Cruz is only one man and cannot force a government shutdown forever, but he managed to do it for a while, and you expect that to be some sort of problem for me? I would have loved it if he had been able to burn down Washington, D.C., and tar and feather you bunch of traitors, but as I said, he’s only one man. And now we get to the sophomoric. He forced you to work on a Saturday!?! A Saturday!?! Poor babies. Did you not get to go to your house on the lake that weekend, you sorry collection of bottom-feeding twits?
And then, of course, there was the time Cruz called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a liar.
Oh, I see. You only want liars in the Senate, Ted didn’t oblige and he called out the lies. God almighty. What a cannibalistic gaggle of gargoyles. I hate them more every day, and I didn’t think that was possible.
On March 14, 2016 at 9:38 am, Haywood Jablome said:
Convention of States to repeal the 16th and 17th ammendments. Period.
Get the Senate back in control of the state legislators and starve the beast of funds.
On March 14, 2016 at 10:26 pm, Herschel Smith said:
If it would work. I’m not sanguine. Perhaps the only thing left is succession and a new confederation of states, hopefully with a peaceable separation. What’s not to like about that? Why would they oppose it?
On March 15, 2016 at 9:19 am, Haywood Jablome said:
I agree. As a matter of fact, let them take whatever States they want…we’ll take their “leftovers”. We will have to build a wall though, because after we get back to our founding principles and values they will be clamoring to get in. Look at the Californian’s. They crappie in their own nest until it is uninhabitable, then move east and ruin other states.
After thinking about it more, I agree with you. It might be the only answer.
On March 14, 2016 at 12:14 pm, Archer said:
“You know, we’ve been asking from the beginning: What’s the end game?
How does this end? How do you achieve what you’re purporting to achieve
on defunding Obamacare? And I never got an answer to that,” Ayotte told
reporters when the government was reopening that October.
That’s because Ayotte is an idiot.
Defunding Obamacare was the end-game. It was the whole enchilada. Like any other government program/handout, Obamacare requires funding to function. Remove all funding from it — all the money that would be used to provide subsidies and enforce non-compliance — and the whole mess becomes meaningless. It goes away. Pretty simple stuff, really.
They’ve been “asking from the beginning,” and from the beginning they’ve been told this. When she says she “never got an answer to that”, she’s telling the truth, but not in the way you think.
Read “never got an answer” as if she said “never got the joke”. Then it makes sense.
On March 14, 2016 at 10:27 pm, Herschel Smith said:
Yes, ” Ayotte is an idiot.” I heard her interviewed once on TV, and was disappointed at the dimwit she appeared to be.