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- mg330
Ted Cruz is really something. I just don't get it.
I've read so many brain dead Tea Party followers say that they hope Cruz runs for president. They say "he has experience unlike Obama." They say "he's accomplished things unlike our community organizer in chief." They say they love his speeches.
What's funny is that this is only Cruz's first time in elected office. He's in his first year of his first term. His position as Texas' Solicitor General was an appointed position, as the state's lawyer, basically. I'm not putting down that position by any means, but it wasn't an elected office.
Obama served 12+ years in state and federal elected positions before running for president. But that equates to no experience to the Tea Party zealots. They deride Obama for being an "Ivy Leage elite," yet Cruz graduated from both Princeton and Harvard Law.
- The guy is a sleazy car salesman
who lied through his teeth on Meet the Press yesterdayRamanisky2 - Like most politicians.freedom
- <True, true ..
But this guy is specialRamanisky2 - Freshman congressman or senators should get kicked in the balls when they overstep their position...mg33
- Just like high school freshman do.mg33
- The guy is a sleazy car salesman
- ukit20
The way I see it the Tea Party is kind of like the Golden Dawn in Greece, the media depicts them as dangerous outsiders but in reality they are the shock troops of the people already in power. In order to push MORE austerity, privatization, tax cuts, etc the elites fund people like Cruz to go out and do his populist right-wing act.
The message may not sound compelling to most of us who live in big cities and are more liberal in our thinking, but it would be even less compelling if it was delivered in the form of "today four Wall Street billionaires demanded the government slash Medicare or they will shut it down." They need a populist frontman in order to be politically viable.
- Yep. Started by the Kochs, that American Prosperity thing, big money from the top to the bottom. Excellently fiendish. If they weren't such cunts. : /mikotondria3
- freedom0
Cruz is from Canada and not one person is saying he can't run for President. But fake Kenyan with an American mother was a problem?
- mg330
- inv0
Everything is going according to Kevin Spacey's plan...
- ukit20
So I guess this means...according to the people pushing the shutdown...that next time we have a Republican President, the Democrats can also shut down the government every year as long as they control one wing of Congress. Great system there...
- freedom0
I don't get why they two sides are so serious and against each other.
- it's like the bloods and crips.pango
- Racism disguised as patriotism, and very little else.mg33
- mg33, on point.ohhhhhsnap
- yep mg33nato
- Because one side is a cunt.mikotondria3
- ukit20
It's not really "two sides" though. The way the government has always worked is that you pass a bill to fund the government and pay its debts. If the first one doesn't happen, government services will eventually stop. The second could cause the global economy to crash. What you have here is a small group of Republicans who have decided they won't pass these bills unless the Democrats give in to their demands.
- ernexbcn0
"WOMAN KILLED AFTER ATTEMPTED
WHITE HOUSE SECURITY BREACH"- I know it's not a laughing matter, but the roundabout instantly made me think of national lampoon's european vacation.bulletfactory
- < same heredbloc
- Big Ben, Parliament...fooler
- nb0
Shutdown is over for now.
Prepare yourself for another nail-biter the first week of February.
S&P estimates the shutdown cost the US Economy 24 billion dollars, or 1.5 billon per day. Nice job, Republicans: Accomplish nothing, cost the nation billions, turn around and talk about fiscal responsibility.
- colin_s0
this is such bullshit.
- nb0
Well, that looks like it turned out to be a huge waste of time and money. Not to mention the damage it's done to the American economy and the world's faith in the dollar as a reserve currency.
Oh, and let's not forget the few million Americans who were probably spending the last two weeks wondering if they'd be homeless and hungry before Christmas.
The Republicans spend a lot of time talking about fiscal responsibility. Yet this is one of the most fiscally reckless actions taken by members of any government, anywhere. It blows my mind that people are so attached to the Republican brand that they can not see the party for what it actually is.
- GeorgesIV0
did it happend like 50 times already?
what's so different this time?- Actually hasn't happened in about two decades. They just talk about it a lot.ukit2
- It's been more recent than that. http://en.wikipedia.…voiceof
- Uh, 18 years is almost 2 decades.
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- SrSamaurai0
Awesome. Feels like a snow day.