lol@ the Senate voting 100-0 to break off Ted Cruz's anti-Obamacare filibuster

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When was the last time there was a unanimous vote like that?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/26/us/politics/senate-budget-battle.html?hp&_r=1&

WASHINGTON — Republican Senator Ted Cruz’s 21-hour, 19-minute verbal assault on President Obama’s signature health care law ended Wednesday when the Senate voted 100-to-0 to break off debate and move to consider House legislation that Democrats plan to use to keep the government open next week.

Mr. Cruz’s marathon session — which began Tuesday afternoon, went straight through the night and ended at a predetermined noon deadline — did not win over senators from either party, and in fact Mr. Cruz even voted to open debate. After the vote, Senate Mike Lee, Republican of Utah and a Cruz ally, said Mr. Cruz never intended to oppose the motion to take up the bill, a position contradicted by his words and procedural motions for days before the tally.

Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, greeted the conclusion of Mr. Cruz’s performance by declaring it “a big waste of time.”

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.

That legislation is precisely what Mr. Cruz, a Texas Republican, has clamored for, but he opposed taking it up, knowing that Democratic leaders would most likely have the votes to strip out the health care language and other Republican policies attached.

But with his indefatigable loquaciousness, Mr. Cruz managed to raise his own profile, anger some colleagues, thrill others, and elevate further the war over the health care law. The program begins enrolling the uninsured on Tuesday, the same day much of the government would shut down if the budget showdown were not resolved.

“We must all hang together or we most assuredly will all hang separately,” Mr. Cruz said in the 11th hour of his stand, quoting Benjamin Franklin and addressing his fellow Republican senators. He vowed to keep up his parliamentary battle to thwart “the train wreck, the nightmare, the disaster that is Obamacare.”

Just feet away from the Senate chamber, in the ornate Lyndon Baines Johnson Room, Senate Democratic women gathered with mothers and babies to castigate the effort and defend the health care law.

“They can talk for the rest of this term. They can stand there day and night. They can shut down government, and those who are colluders can stand with them,” fumed Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, Democrat of Maryland. “We are going to stand with the people of the United States of America.”

Senator Debbie Stabenow, Democrat of Michigan, said Mr. Cruz’s performance “changes nothing. He’s gotten a lot of airtime, and that’s something I’m sure he’s pleased about.”

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.

If they succeed, Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio would have a matter of hours to decide whether to have the House vote on the Senate’s spending bill over the strenuous opposition of conservative activists or to add new Republican policy provisions to the spending bill and send it back to the Senate, a move sure to shutter the government.

Even many Republicans have encouraged House leaders to relent.

“There’s no other way,” said Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona. “As soon as we have 67 votes in the United States Senate, we’ll win. Unfortunately we’re not even close.”

For now, Mr. Cruz is basking in his moment.

His performance was not technically a filibuster. He merely held the floor until the clock ran out on the procedural vote, which he could not delay. But nine months into his first term in elective office, the Texan has become a lightning rod, a hero to conservative activists, a rogue to others in both parties.

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It wasn't even really a fillibuster. The guy was out there fronting. Even McCain was stuntin on him. This is basically what we wasted our time on:

Before we get into the highlowlights of the fake filibuster, let’s explain why this is not an actual filibuster. A filibuster is when a Senator talks and talks and talks in order to delay a vote on a bill. In this case, Sen. Reid has said that a vote will happen on the bill at a set time. So basically, Ted Cruz can talk or not talk, and it won’t make any difference at all, except that by talking he is making the entire chatcave drunker and drunker.

So what did this humaniod ballsack talk about for 16 hours and counting?

  • Within the first 30 minutes of talking, Ted Cruz brought up Nazis. If you had “less than 30 minutes” in your office pool, YOU ARE A WINNER!
  • Ted Cruz is all of a sudden concerned about different classes of people. We are not sure if he means rich/poor or Canadian/American or Ivy/Lesser Ivy.
  • Cruz’s father washed dishes to pay his way through college. Hooray for him. Cruz is worried that Obamacare will go back in time and destroy that dishwashing job, thereby ruining Ted Cruz’s chances of being the first Canadian-American President/Prime Minister of the United States of Ameri-Canada (god save the queen!).
  • At some point, #StandWithCruz started trending on Twitters.
  • David Vitter came to the Senate floor to ask a question. He was not accompanied by any HOOKERS, despite the fact that EVERYONE KNOWS he used to boink hookers, hookers being women (and men) who exchange sexytime for monies, even with MARRIED MEN like David Vitter. Vitter asked a question, but all we heard was, “I used to boink hookers and wear diapers.” Cruz answered, but we didn’t care about the answer because we were too busy trying to get the image of Vitter boinking hookers our of our minds. Protip: Bourbon helps with this.
  • Rand Paul made a special appearance, because he, too, will run for Prezzy in 2016, and didn’t want to be left out of all the fun. He promised to bring Cruz candy, and we honestly care more about whether it was a Snickers or a Butterfinger than whatever libertarian, Ayn-Rand-cunnilingus bullshyt that spewed out of his mouth.
  • All of a sudden, Cruz was blathering on about White Castle. It made us want to smoke up and eat little burgers. We don’t know what it had to do with Obamacare, but it sure made us hungry.
  • Obamacare vote is the most important vote in the history of ever. For realz, he made the point that the upcoming vote was the most important vote in his NINE MONTH SENATE CAREER.
  • Cruz read letter from his constituents. Apparently, every single person from Texas is afraid that Obamacare will waterboard their families, so please repeal it. Because we are sure that the good Senator would never, ever, cherry-pick letters for political gain.
  • The whole time, Cruz kept blaming D.C. for the problems with Obamacare, apparently unaware that NOT ONE MEMBER of Congress is actually from Washington, D.C. Therefore, the problem is not D.C., but rather the rest of America… like Texas.
  • Cruz did not wear pink shoes, nor did he wear cowboy “argument” boots. He wore black sneakers. He talked about his black sneakers for 5 minutes, which is 5 minutes of our life we will never, ever get back.
  • Jeff Sessions (R-AL) asked questions, calling Obamacare a train wreck. Apparently, no one realizes the irony that in the event of an actual train wreck, health care, like Obamacare, would come in quite handy.
  • Hey, it’s Florida’s Marco Rubio! He looks thirsty. Seriously, he keeps licking his lips. Maybe he is going in for a kiss… Nah, he’s just talking about how America is the greatest. We’re not looking forward to the 2016 GOP Presidential debates, because if this is the preview, then our lives are gonna SUCK.
  • Around 8 PM, he read Green Eggs and Ham to his “little angel” daughters who were at home watching daddy on the SPAN, and attempted — painfully — to explain how it’s pretty much just like Obamacare, because we do not need to try it to know we will not like it in a box, with a fox, or anywhere, proving once more that an Ivy League education does not mean you do reading comprehension good. We are a little disappointed he did not then read aloud The Butter Battle Book to explain why we should bomb Syria.

Read more at http://wonkette.com/529637/ted-cruz...-b-roll-for-2016-campaign#LxIqcouKXstp3KhP.99

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for him it was a smart move, his name recognition went through the roof, and he is in a good pole position for the primaries
 

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When was the last time there was a unanimous vote like that?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/26/us/politics/senate-budget-battle.html?hp&_r=1&

WASHINGTON — Republican Senator Ted Cruz’s 21-hour, 19-minute verbal assault on President Obama’s signature health care law ended Wednesday when the Senate voted 100-to-0 to break off debate and move to consider House legislation that Democrats plan to use to keep the government open next week.

Mr. Cruz’s marathon session — which began Tuesday afternoon, went straight through the night and ended at a predetermined noon deadline — did not win over senators from either party, and in fact Mr. Cruz even voted to open debate. After the vote, Senate Mike Lee, Republican of Utah and a Cruz ally, said Mr. Cruz never intended to oppose the motion to take up the bill, a position contradicted by his words and procedural motions for days before the tally.

Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, greeted the conclusion of Mr. Cruz’s performance by declaring it “a big waste of time.”

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.

That legislation is precisely what Mr. Cruz, a Texas Republican, has clamored for, but he opposed taking it up, knowing that Democratic leaders would most likely have the votes to strip out the health care language and other Republican policies attached.

But with his indefatigable loquaciousness, Mr. Cruz managed to raise his own profile, anger some colleagues, thrill others, and elevate further the war over the health care law. The program begins enrolling the uninsured on Tuesday, the same day much of the government would shut down if the budget showdown were not resolved.

“We must all hang together or we most assuredly will all hang separately,” Mr. Cruz said in the 11th hour of his stand, quoting Benjamin Franklin and addressing his fellow Republican senators. He vowed to keep up his parliamentary battle to thwart “the train wreck, the nightmare, the disaster that is Obamacare.”

Just feet away from the Senate chamber, in the ornate Lyndon Baines Johnson Room, Senate Democratic women gathered with mothers and babies to castigate the effort and defend the health care law.

“They can talk for the rest of this term. They can stand there day and night. They can shut down government, and those who are colluders can stand with them,” fumed Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, Democrat of Maryland. “We are going to stand with the people of the United States of America.”

Senator Debbie Stabenow, Democrat of Michigan, said Mr. Cruz’s performance “changes nothing. He’s gotten a lot of airtime, and that’s something I’m sure he’s pleased about.”

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.

If they succeed, Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio would have a matter of hours to decide whether to have the House vote on the Senate’s spending bill over the strenuous opposition of conservative activists or to add new Republican policy provisions to the spending bill and send it back to the Senate, a move sure to shutter the government.

Even many Republicans have encouraged House leaders to relent.

“There’s no other way,” said Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona. “As soon as we have 67 votes in the United States Senate, we’ll win. Unfortunately we’re not even close.”

For now, Mr. Cruz is basking in his moment.

His performance was not technically a filibuster. He merely held the floor until the clock ran out on the procedural vote, which he could not delay. But nine months into his first term in elective office, the Texan has become a lightning rod, a hero to conservative activists, a rogue to others in both parties.

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When they voted for the Black Secretary of Transportation Obama picked months back
 

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not following this obamacare thing but they're making this brother look like an idiot in that article. but as usual we're gonna look back in time and see he wasn't so wrong after all.
 

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While the move was idiotic and pointless i will give ONE piece of credit...
He actually filibustered (even though it wasn't).

I hate the new "just call fili" filibuster move. I think they should HAVE TO actually talk. It's so important for the people to see shyt like that so they know something is being held up, be they for it or against it.
 

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ima be honest, what makes me question obamacare is the fact that he granted exemption to congress :yeshrug: and i believe a couple other groups?

although i think i heard that it was just a way to get them to vote it in. can anyone clarify this
 

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He is making himself look great for his diehard supporters, but he's ruining any chance he has to be President. Though, he probably doesn't expect become President anyway.
 

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Word up. John McCain made me feel like sane people just might prevail. I felt hopeful hearing him just keep it real .
 
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