For those who aren't aware; Sen. Ted Cruz is currently "filibustering" in order to stop the removal of the "defunding Obamacare" section of the house bill that will prevent a Government shutdown. Except it's not a filibuster, as Reid filed cloture on the motion to proceed today, which means there will be a vote on it Wednesday at 1p regardless of Cruz's "filibuster". Cruz is just grandstanding in order to raise his profile & make the House Republicans less pissed, I suppose.
The best part is, he read from "Green Eggs & Ham" because, according to him, “they do not like Obamacare in a box, with a fox, in a house, or with a mouse.†Except, as anyone who actually read that book knows, the lesson is that once the narrator tries Green Eggs & Ham, he likes it.
Could Congress be any more broken? Could Cruz be anymore clueless as to how Congress works? Unfortunately, the answer to both of those is "probably".
Video here.
Edited, Sep 24th 2013 10:35pm by Omegavegeta