As we saw in yesterday’s blog entry, Senator Cruz spoke for many hours about how important it is to not vote for closure and instead to stand against it in order to defund Obamacare. He was quite serious about this.
Well, fortunately, today, he met his enemy, in the form of a certain Senator Cruz, who voted for closure despite everything Senator Cruz had said the day earlier.
Good thing we have senators like Senator Cruz who are willing to stand up to terrible senators like Senator Cruz.
As I write this, Senator Cruz is in some sort of semi-fillibuster mode in a useless and futile attempt to — well, I’m not sure. He says he wants to stop Obamacare, but this won’t do it. Certainly his own party leaders don’t support this. Cruz is just sucking up to the Tea Party crazies who like to bang their heads against the wall and constantly complain, because no matter what Obama does for them, he continues to stubbornly remain black. Or something. I’m not quite sure of their logic.
Obamacare passed both Houses. It was signed by the President. The Supreme Court ruled it constitutional. Forty-two attempts to repeal it have failed. It’s not going away.
Most of its provisions have already gone into effect and are showing to be successful. My insurance rates have risen every year for the past ten years and for the first time, I am able to negotiate (because the companies can no longer turn me down for my wife’s pre-existing condition) and how about that? My rates are going down, and that’s in a state with a Tea Party governor doing everything possible to thwart the law.
What the Republicans are really worried about is not that the program will fail. They are worried it will be successful — that people will like it, and then blame them for trying to prevent it.
After all, they have shown over and over again that they don’t really care about anything except getting re-elected and helping their wealthy donors. That’s why we have seen a grand total of zero job bills passed by the Republicans.
Ted Cruz is becoming the new face of that party, which is not making the party leadership happy. Then again, they invited this. Instead of standing up to the Tea Party extremists, they catered to them. And now they have to deal with it.
And they’re not the only ones suffering because of it.
Welcome to Republican fantasy land, where a large number of Republicans reside! Sometimes called “The Bubble”, RFL is similar to the real world.
In Republican fantasy land, people who get welfare are all lazy bums who don’t deserve to get benefits. There are no unemployed people searching for work, no disabled veterans, and no families trying to get by on minimum wage.
In Republican fantasy land, the country was founded on the Bible.
In Republican fantasy land, Fox is a news channel that is fair and balanced.
In Republican fantasy land, a black person in your midst shows without a doubt that you cannot possibly be a racist.
In Republican fantasy land, giving more money to very rich will help the very poor.
In Republican fantasy land, government making health care decisions for Americans is the greatest evil possible (unless that decision is about abortion).
In Republican fantasy land, only sluts have abortions and they do it without a second thought.
In Republican fantasy land, science is always wrong when it disagrees with conservative religious or political views.
In Republican fantasy land, polls showing that their views are in the minority are clearly part of a vast liberal conspiracy.
Not all Republicans live in the Republican Fantasy Land, but given the comments they make and the way they vote, quite a few obviously do.
Care to add some more to this list?
In a stunning announcement, the Pope revealed today that he has broken with longstanding Catholic tradition and has done the unthinkable. He has read the Bible.
“I have reviewed the teachings of Jesus thoroughly,” he said to gasps, “and I can’t find anything in there about hating gays, being against abortion, or disallowing contraception. There is, however, quite a bit about how the rich cannot get into heaven and how we should be doing everything in our power to help the poor and downtrodden.”
Numerous conservative politicians have spoken out against His Holiness, with one stating, “What in the world is he doing reading the Bible? You don’t need to read the Bible to know what it says! Look at me — I’ve never read the Constitution, and I know it says that this is a Christian nation.”
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