American Politics Thread 2013: I'm a cool Rodham grandma in the USA

uh oh

I just visualized the draining stall session that Cruz experienced directly before taking the senate floor.

maybe there's that moment where you think you're finished, and he busts out his phone and sets it to selfie-pic mode, says to himself "maybe this is what you were born for", and then the stream returns for another 3 seconds to complete the job

TPM posts Bill Kristol's memo calling for the defeat of Clinton's health care bill.

lol I had totally forgotten he was Quayle's COS. dude is truly a blight on a tumor of the cancerous ass of the GOP

and of course his prescriptions for curing the ills of American health care? A market-based system in which the insurance companies dominate. Hm!

this time around the GOP didn't even bother presenting an alternative plan to improve healthcare, did they?

Yes. The poor die.

Where's Wendell Wilkie when we need him?

yeah, i forgot it was basically "get a job and pay for it yourself you lazy, entitled fucks! you can get a job if you work hard!", followed by a deep inhalation of a stimulant from an aerosol canister

Where's Wendell Wilkie when we need him?

― Ma mère est habile Mais ma bile est amère (Michael White),

died young of a heart attack. Poor insurance coverage, you know.

what's truly sad is that is somehow a tenable political position now

Yes. The poor die.

― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, September 24, 2013 9:27 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I believe this received a rousing line of applause during the GOP convention last year

actually, the Wilkie of health reform was a man named Willard Romney.

what's truly sad is that is somehow a tenable political position now

killing the poor has always been a tenable political position. it's kind of the oldest tenable political position there is.

From Kristol's memo: "Republicans should ask: what will Bill Clinton's health care plan do to the relationship most Americans now have with their family doctor or pediatrician?"

Seems quaint because the last time I remember people talking about family doctors - rather than a emergent care clinic or whomever their insurance requires - was right around 1994.

uh, ted cruz read green eggs and ham earlier.

http://gawker.com/ted-cruz-reads-green-eggs-ham-because-he-will-not-eat-1380949655

it comes across as just as idiotic as george bush and the goat book, only without 9/11 happening at the same time.

this guy http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ted-cruz-negotiated-terms-of-filibuster-with-reid

I can't believe the Senate GOP let Cruz do this.

i mean maybe this is the year the gop finally nominates a wingnut

THIS is not the year, three motherfucking years from now is the putative year, try to think about something besides the garbage POTUS circus, k thx bye.

oh dont get all county on us morbs

I'm gonna give morbs that one actually

the Seattle mayoral election is heating up

VA Gov. this year, will be interesting if Ken Cuccinelli can overcome serious bribery scandal to win against whoever the other guy is.

WHOEVER the other guy is

haha Terry McAuliffe.

I learned in elementary school that Virginia had a black governor once!

a couple real class acts they got running right now

mcauliffe has a pretty sizeable lead but yeah that race

Dana Loesch ‏@DLoesch 41m

It's 3am, do you know where your senator is? If not on the floor to #StandWithCruz you should be concerned. #MakeDCListen

Any pictures of the Cruz shoes?

heh, when i tuned in last night for a spell i saw this caption:

http://a3.img.talkingpointsmemo.com/image/upload/c_fill,fl_keep_iptc,g_faces,h_365,w_652/quazxojtewlvqh5vqzxm.jpg

burn

getting a martin sheen in the dead zone vibe from this guy

the c-span2 burn is the deadliest of all

his diaper must be so squishy

Josh Marshall ‏@joshtpm 3m
He's now asking Reid if he can be allowed to do a real filibuster.

Josh Marshall ‏@joshtpm 3m
Cruz just referred to his 'filibuster' which is actually just standing and talking while nothing else was happening.

lol

YA BURNT

damn harry

https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/382891382022475776

"This is not a filibuster. This is an agreement he and I made, that he could talk." -- Majority Leader Harry Reid on Ted Cruz.

With a potential government shutdown looming in less than a week, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas said it would be “nonsensical” for his fellow Republicans to support any effort to bring government to a halt over the health care law.

“I don't think it's a good option,” Perry told “The Fine Print.” “There's still time to sit down and try to fix Obamacare.”

rick p, sensible moderate

*fires six shooter in the air*

die poors, die

Senator Ted Cruz’s verbal assault on the health care law ended on Wednesday when the Senate voted 100-0 to end debate

wait... so even Cruz didn't vote against ending debate? this fucking clown

hahahahahahaha

they actually voted to open debate

that's not what the NY Times says but whatever

cruz is trying to rally the GOP faithful to filibuster the closing of debate (friday or saturday)

nytimes is confused, cloture is scheduled for later this week, cruzes whole epic speech happened totally outside of the procedure for this bill

is ted cruz still president I am confused

they get it right here:

Wednesday’s vote is the first in a series that will culminate in a final vote on Sunday. Later this week, Mr. Reid will formally introduce a new version of the House stopgap-spending bill stripped of the health care language and shortened to keep the government operating from Oct. 1 to Nov. 15 rather than Dec. 15, as the House wanted. The biggest vote will most likely come this weekend, when Democrats must win over 60 senators to cut off debate on their leader’s bill.

unfortunately they confused matters by including this bit earlier in the article:

The vote ended debate and the Senate will formally take up a bill the House passed that keeps the government open through Dec. 15 while gutting the president’s Affordable Care Act.