Gary Legum, over at Wonkette, made me chuckle a few times while covering Ted Cruz’s excellent adventure at the Defense of Christian’s Dinner on Wednesday night. It seems that Ted didn’t anticipate that Arab Christians feel roughly same way about Israel as Arab Muslims do.
Being of the Jewish persuasion, we do appreciate Ted’s defending our right to exist. But we’re not down with insufferable douche noodles trying to reduce a complex and difficult situation into a “You’re either with us or against us” meme. Our last president did that, and it worked out rather poorly for everyone.
We’re looking forward to the insane ferrets at Fox News trying to puzzle out how to feel about this video after they just spent months justifying unflinching support for Israeli policies by screaming that Obama was ignoring the problem of Christians being mass murdered in Syria and Iraq by bloodthirsty Muslims. Heads will be a-sploding, we’re sure.
And here’s a bonus clip from The Week in Cruz on Film. Check out this bit of hilarity on the Senate floor. Some background: Senate Democrats are pushing a constitutional amendment that would roll back the campaign finance excesses in Citizens United by declaring that Congress and the states can “regulate and set reasonable limits on the raising and spending of money by candidates and others to influence elections,” thus taking away the Roberts Court’s argument that money equals free speech.
Naturally, Republicans are trying to portray this as a root-and-branch repeal of the First Amendment. Which led to Edmonton Ted, who more and more looks to us like a macaroon with hair plugs, taking to the Senate floor to argue that the measure would allow the government to outlaw “Saturday Night Live” and toss Lorne Michaels in jail. We’re not sure what part of the senator’s base would actually have a problem with this, but reading the political leanings of a crowd doesn’t seem to have been Ted’s strong suit this week.
It may have been a particularly bad week for Ted Cruz but he, like zombies and mold, does not change.
“Macaroon with hair plugs” made me seriously laugh out loud. It also brought to mind Bugs Bunny: “What a macaroon!”
You think this is bad for him? I’m sure being attacked this way helped his top skyrocket in Wingnuttia.
Maybe good for the press continuing to treat him as a kind of Einstein to see him being an ignorant fool.
It would be good if it could actually penetrate the Wingnuttia brain that the Christian Martyrs in Brown Countries, the only foreign policy cause that interests them, are not necessarily aligned with them. And that Israel can be seen as an oppressor. It won’t penetrate, though.
I admit I loved the link about Cruz’s college roommate. It’s good for us to get a solid laugh early in the morning!
nobody on his staff read his speech beforehand?
Of course “we” see Canadian Cruz as a supreme puffed-up egomaniacal clown, his supposedly awesome intellect poisoned beyond repair by his addiction to massive amounts of Rightwing sewage from an early age. I’m surprised there isn’t already a website which documents the daily antics of Tailgunner Ted, as there was for darling Michele Bachmann. Surely there will be plenty of material for high comedy as long he’s in office.
But there’s a good chance that either this guy or Jeb will to be the American Fascist prez nominee and either of them (or both!) will be quite formidable. Whatever the fucking useless 2014 polls say, I quail at the thought of Hillary battling it out with either of them.
The great danger of the endless black/white pronouncements that issue from the mouth of authoritarians like Cruz is that simpleminded “answers” become very attractive to uninformed, unreflective, manipulated people as their country declines and fails, especially when those bogus answers are presented as being the “traditional” way of doing things. A return to the Golden Age by way of the past is a time honored formula for “conservative” movements. Our American Fascist movement is obviously still looking for its Hitler or Il Duce.
There’s the argument that the Dems have a lock on the presidency no matter what. This seems shaky to me, since FL, OH, VA, WI, CO and even IA have all been pretty damn close wins for the Dems in the past couple elections. Hell, even PA has a Rightwing extremist senator! Add in the traditional resistance to letting one party have the WH for more than 8 years, and one can see the storm clouds starting to gather.
Canadian Cruz is clearly a horrible braindead monster, whatever his childhood IQ was. He earns his mockery—he likely is proud of it. Hell, he probably welcomes it. But he may very have the last laugh.
If Democrats can’t beat Cruz nationally, they need to give up politics. Cruz will take one of the worst ass whuppings in electoral history. It’ll probably be worse than Goldwater/Johnson.
Also, too, it doesn’t seem like there was much planned or done to put a spotlight on the Repubs certain defense of Citizens United—which polls invariably indicate is a deeply unpopular decision. Dems spent a long time jockeying for this big vote. I suppose our new war kinda takes all the oxygen.
Always funny to see how these senate votes are reported: “Amendment to repeal Citizens United fails on 55-42 vote”. Only in America!
Doh, I forgot constitutional amendments require 2/3 vote! Any way to delete my boobery?
The macaroon thing sounds funny but is awfully close to calling him a coconut. You know, brown on the outside, white on the inside.
Sort of a racial thing.
I would just be careful taking criticism that direction. Especially since Rafael is so easy to criticize on so many levels without mentioning ethnicity or race or any invidious inborn characteristic.