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Pat Fuller @bannerite
RT @kimfeldpausch: I do not like this Ted Cruz twit.....#UniteBlue #LibCrib pic.twitter.com/ohCWhB72vZ #p22:29 PM - 24 Sep 2013
Philip Gourevitch @PGourevitch
I do not like this Mr. Cruz
I do not like him on the news
I think he is a total snooze
I much prefer Obamacare
I hope to see it everywhere2:20 PM - 24 Sep 2013
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Political Line @PoliticaILine
Green Eggs and Ham is a story about someone opposing something based on ignorance... and they love it after they experience it #irony2:14 PM - 24 Sep 2013
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Good ol [font size=21pt]BOG![/font]
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)Hey!
Meanwhile..
KSK(africa) @lawalazu
As Ted Cruz on the Senate Floor plays childish games to entertain fan club, PBO and BC gives lesson in #Obamacare.http://www.politicususa.com/2013/09/24/bill-clinton-barack-obama-blow-ted-cruzs-faux-filibuster-water.html
3:12 PM - 24 Sep 2013
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GOOD ol TOD~ http://theobamadiary.com/2013/09/24/president-obama-and-bill-clinton-talk-health-care-reform/
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Cha
(305,410 posts)sheshe2
(87,491 posts)snip
What she was expressing was the idea that while the health reform bill may not have been popular, the health reform law would prove popular in practice once it was in effect. People would like their subsidies and their regulatory protections, and wouldn't want to see them repealed. She was making, specificaly, a kind of Green Eggs and Ham argument. The narrator keeps insisting that he hates green eggs and ham, but he's never had green eggs and ham. When he finally tries themhe likes them!
The Democrats' bet on the Affordable Care Act is that it's like green eggs and hamthey're convinced the public will like it when they try it.
Conservatives like Cruz claim that this is wrong. That Americans will taste the green eggs and ham and they're going to hate it. But their actions speak otherwise. They're desperate to repeal the law before it's implemented. And in terms of the 2012 elections, that was fair enough. But they lost in 2012. Now instead of acting like they're confident that the voter backlash to the green eggs and ham will power them to victories in 2014 and 2016, they're engaging in flailing desperate tactics to make sure nobody tries the green eggs and ham. Because deep down they fear that Dr. Seuss was right.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/09/24/ted_cruz_and_green_eggs_and_ham_texas_senator_didn_t_understand_a_very_liberal.html
Thanks Cha, for pointing us to Teddie Cruz.....front runner in 2016....
Cha
(305,410 posts)what prosessed Ted Cruz to read that particular book while trying out his fake filibuster on Obamacare!?! Too much love of his own voice and absolutely no knowledge of the material he chose!!?
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At that point, Cruz recited the entirety of Seuss story, though as PolicyMic noted, it can be argued that he unintentionally made a case for supporting the new law, since the unnamed protagonist eventually comes around to enjoying the titular food, and Cruz has been denounced even by fellow Republicans for calling for a government shutdown to avoid implementing the law.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/24/ted-cruz-reads-green-eggs-and-ham-during-obamacare-filibuster/
He needs new material..
sheshe2
(87,491 posts)Maybe he can afford one under Obamacare~
Cha~
Cha
(305,410 posts)isn't helping Ted Cruz from making a national idiot out of himself on Obamacare.. the very thing he wants to destroy but ends up promoting. Irony Indeed!
Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
Green Eggs and Ham is about hating something, trying it, and finding out you like it.
Thanks @TedCruz for selling #ObamaCare to Americans.3:19 PM - 24 Sep 2013
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http://theobamadiary.com/2013/09/24/the-day-in-images-4/
She~BOG
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)Bolo Boffin
(23,872 posts)He actually read Green Eggs and Ham?
That's utterly mad. It completely undercuts his argument and paints ACA resisters as childish. Maybe he is a Democratic plant.
Cha
(305,410 posts)Green Eggs and Ham for his fake filibuster, Bolo. Perhaps too much love of his own voice and not enough knowledge of what his material was about?
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)If they read anything like his entire body of work and realized he married an outspoken, self-declared communist, they'd scream and faint. Lewis himself was an ardent socialist. But they can read something like The Screwtape Letters and mistake it for a blast at liberals. Immense talent for self deception.
Cha
(305,410 posts)Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
Green Eggs and Ham is about hating something, trying it, and finding out you like it.
Thanks @TedCruz for selling #ObamaCare to Americans.3:19 PM - 24 Sep 2013
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http://theobamadiary.com/2013/09/24/the-day-in-images-4/
The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)Cha
(305,410 posts)madame~
The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)gopiscrap
(24,170 posts)marble falls
(62,063 posts)Cha
(305,410 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)which is not a filibuster. So Reid is allowing Cruz to talk nonsense anyways, ugh.
And on RS that have posters coming on stating, wait for it. . .
"He speaking up for our FREEDOMS". Healthcare is now considered a program that takes your freedoms away, Oh please GOD what the eff are these people sniffing.
bearssoapbox
(1,408 posts)Cha
(305,410 posts)it's on, bearssoapbox!
Dr Suess
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)HotTinCat
(1 post)Poking around the Net, I've seen a lot of angry comments suggesting that Ted Cruz is a nut case, is guilty of treason, etc. This parody of Green Eggs and Ham suggests that he's both absurd and sanctimonious:
http://hottincat.wordpress.com/2013/09/28/cruz-i-am-green-eggs-parody/