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- Knuckleberry0
and there it is
- 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
- 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.
- colin_s0
this is such bullshit.
- 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.
- BusterBoy0
Reckon it's time you good people of the United States just split in two. Rational and clear thinking people in the north and shove the rest in the south and create two new countries.
- omg0
- formed0
This is just childish insanity. I pray it comes back to haunt the R's. Cruz, Cantor, etc., are just cancers to the country.
If this doesn't get resolved immediately this is really going to make a lot of people very bitter (including myself). A lot of money and business is at stake, not just principles. Throwing that business away, increasing our deficit and making our country look like a fucking joke is just not acceptable.
What happens in a month when we have the 'real' problem - the debt ceiling? What about next time??
Man, talk about a way to sabotage the economy. Fuckers.
- SrSamaurai0
Come January 1st in Colorado there will be enough recreational marijuana tax money to smooth everything over
- This time it ain't about money. Who knows what it'll be next timeformed
- formed0
Can the fucking R's get their heads out of their asses? There are some moderate R's, why can't they beat the crap out of punks like Cruz??
""We can't win," said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., adding that "sooner or later" the House would have to agree to Democrats' demands for a simple, straightforward funding bill reopening the government."
"King added that if the government did shut down, one man would be responsible. “Ted Cruz should be blamed,” King said. “And anybody that follows him.”
