Cruzin’ for a bruisin’
by digby
“If you go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany. Look, we saw in Britain, Neville Chamberlain, who told the British people, ‘Accept the Nazis. Yes, they’ll dominate the continent of Europe but that’s not our problem. Let’s appease them. Why? Because it can’t be done. We can’t possibly stand against them.'”
“And in America there were voices that listened to that. I suspect those same pundits who say it can’t be done, if it had been in the 1940s we would have been listening to them. Then they would have made television. They would have gotten beyond carrier pigeons and beyond letters and they would have been on tv and they would have been saying, ‘You cannot defeat the Germans.'”
That’s Ted Cruz in his pretend filibuster. And he’s not comparing the Democrats to the Nazi appeasers. He’s talking about his fellow Republican Senators. Oh s-nap.
Here’s an example of right wing reaction:
How dare Ted Cruz threaten to filibuster to save Americans from Obamacare! At least when Democrats filibuster, it’s for important reasons, like to try to prevent the Republicans from passing the Civil Rights Act in 1964!!! – liberal logic
And this, from RNC chair Reince Priebus, is hardly any more coherent:
The House has passed a bipartisan bill to accomplish two goals that are in line with the will of the American people: (a) end the ObamaCare train wreck by defunding it and (b) keep the government open and running. Now it’s up to the Senate to do the same.
Republicans want to keep the government running. Democrats claim they want the same, but they aren’t acting like it. By denouncing the House bill, Harry Reid has already said that he’s willing to shut down the government to save face for the president and to defend a failed law.
Republicans run the House and they’ve done their part: funding the government, defunding ObamaCare. If the Senate fails to do the same, it will be Democrats’ fault. If the government has to shut down, it will be their doing.
President Obama could’ve tried to work with the Senate toward a solution. But as has been the case for over four years, he refused to.
House Republicans produced and passed legislation to keep the government running. They’ve done the job Americans wanted. Now it’s up to the Democrat-run Senate. Now the #SenateMustAct.
Judging from the twitter machine the tea partiers are fired up and ready to … vote against Republicans. They seem to be convinced that this can actually happen.
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