so over the course of the 21 hours Ted Cruz ran up against the problem his
children who had been watching on C-span
would have to go to sleep at some point so he decided to take time out it is
very busy filibustering schedule
to read them a bedtime story let's watch that Sam I am that Sam I am
I do not like that Sam I am d like
green eggs and ham I do not like them Sam I am I do not like
green eggs and ham would you like them here or there
I would not like them here or there I would not like them
anywhere I do not like green eggs and ham I do not like them
Sam I am I do not like green eggs and ham I do not like them
Sam I am I would not eat green eggs and ham I do not like them
Sam I am I do not like green eggs and ham I do not like him
Sam I am I do not like them
Sam I am said any
I'm like green eggs and ham
I do i'd like them Sam I am
and I'll tell you the difference with green eggs and ham is one americans
tried it they discovered they did not like
green eggs and ham and they did not like Obamacare either
they did not like Obamacare in a box with a fox in a house or I wish that on
every one of those graphics real picture objects and so he get credit for that
was an awesome little montage ether together the overacting
like this guy is this is again a shell observation
1 I've the dorkiest ads ever apparently because he's getting so into it
I as to the whole fathered aspect of this I love that he's protecting himself
again as a father as a responsible family man
but I got news for you your daughters were watching C SPAN I don't think they
need any help getting to bed that night
I think that they would do just fine without the story but yeah he was doing
is electing and
it might strike you for listening to his description of it despite the fact that
he
I'm very enthusiastically read the I do like it line
it does seem that he might have missed the point love the story
and a clear MacAskill was talking about that on the news earlier today
and I thought it was interesting that that Ted Cruz used green eggs and ham
I went to the University missouri i do not go to Harvard but I'll tell you this
my daughter texted me this morning said mom does he not know the point of the
story
it's that you can't knock things until you try it
and which is ironic that he used to end the filibuster because
I think when people well you realize how does changes are over and this went to a
lesser I V exactly yet
have meant that was full of great so i i think he was just piggybacking on her
reference to Harvard there
she feels the need %uh tougher Harvard under the bus I guess to make her see
see more like an everyday American I suppose on BF she has a slightly better
understanding the story
I understand its complicated there are a lot of subplots and all that
but yet the the story only has one message at the end of the day
it's that yet you can hate something because it looks weirder it's out of the
ordinary or you don't know much about it
when you actually try it you might in the end like it now I don't necessarily
agree with that I think there are some things that you don't need to try to
know that you would not enjoy
on but let let's we keep it simple for the children I suppose
apparently not simple enough for him now he like there are a lot of books I
suppose that we are OK with Ted Cruz
not understanding what the actually contain on like the Bible
Origin of Species any book on climate change perhaps but he's actually read
this apparently apparently multiple times in the past and still does not
understand that
and I think that he was trying to cover for himself in the end when he said well
in this case they don't actually like it
but of course we understand that on what little information most americans have
about the Affordable Care Act has been misinformation
and the that the president Chuck Todd was attacking him last week
the president is not done the best job of explaining it what's in the bill
perhaps because it's incredibly complicated involves many different
changes may different systemic changes
and and so it's hard to explain understand that much easier to attack it
much easier to just put
some sort of creepy guy and Uncle Sam costume was about to
as Jon Stewart says mainly finger bang some guy that's a much simpler to sell
than actually understand all the ways that
that this will help some the structural problems in terms of the cost of health
care
that we have as a country going forward Ted Cruz had a couple of other weird
moments in his speech there
at one point he was %uh referring back to something Rand Paul had said
and I got weird he brought star or sports watch where he said something to
the effect that we need a rebellion
against oppression
it reminded me a movie series that
was in the theaters when the senator from Kentucky and I were both
kids young adults and that was the Star Wars
franchise the discussion over rebellion against oppression I think it captures a
lot of what's going on here
and I will confess that phrase a rebellion against oppression conjured up
to me
the Rebel Alliance fighting against the Empire
the Empire being the Washington DC establishment and indeed
immediately on hearing that phrase I wondered if it some point we were going
to see
a tall gentleman in a mechanical breathing apparatus come forward and say
in a deep voice
Miceli I am your father yet so Ted Cruz is apparently an idiot %uh
galactic proportions and because he both gets the entire message behind star was
completely wrong which will get to
but also like he didn't even covers now thank you suppose to any Darth Vader I
mean even when we have been impressions here we go to that link
at the very least yes so he tries to portray both himself and Rand Paul
who engaged in a much more success such a significant and meaningful filibuster
earlier this year
as rebels fighting against oppression indicating here
that Obamacare allowing people who did not have health care because a
pre-existing conditions or an inability to pay for it
or whatever the reason them being offered healthcare is the same thing
as every jet I being wiped out across the galaxy
and whatever else it is that the rebels are fighting force not exactly explain
very well in the original movies maybe you need to read the Expanded Universe
books or something to get a better idea but
but seem like a bad situation and when you compare
health care policy changes in america to galactic level oppression
you mean the actual oppression that's going on both inside of America and
around the globe
there actual oppressive governments operating right now as we speak there
are many countries
where you can be locked up for a number of years or possibly even killed
for gauging in homosexual acts their places where parties or individual
politicians have been
executed or locked up because of their political opinions
there look at russia right now their views towards homosexuals there's real
oppression that sometimes is a life-or-death matter
going on in the world and so I think that it's a silly
it silly with consequences to refer to the formal Care Act
in the same sort of language in so again
this is later on in his %uh in his filibuster that he engaged in this
at some point after speaking for 21 hours I'm sure that your wits
go to some extent he didn't really have any breaks or anything
and he's trying to sing folk scene is trying to seem cool is coming off as a
dork is coming off as an idiot
in my own personal opinion on I don't know how much credit was given
considering how long he been talking
I but yet its
the problem when you are a conservative is that there's not
that many great examples in popular culture a strong conservative figures
that you can allow yourself with and so you very often have to pretend
as its liberal or progressive figures these tolerate her look figures
are in fact conservatives and so he tries to climb onto 22 star was there
when really what are they have i mean they've got the
Atlas Shrugged perhaps I mean can servicing the love that even though she
was you know a government funds taking atheist
on engaging in multiple affairs and things of that sort she's like the
conservative figure
but they have to pretend that Luke Scott Walker on solar on their side
which is a complete joke