Pic Of The Moment: Shutdown Day 5: WTF?

[EarlG]

Sen. Cruz: 'Democrats want government by crisis'

GOP Rep. Peter King: This Shutdown "Disaster" is "Ted Cruz's Fault"

Ted Cruz Is Already Protesting the Shutdown He Asked For

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[Coyotl]

1. It's Boehner's Shutdown now. Current Cost of Boehner's Shutdown = $1.295 BILLION

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023783283



http://www.moveon.org/costoftheshutdown/

[abelenkpe]

4. 12.5 million an hour

from the party sooooo concerned with reducing the debt.

[NewJeffCT]

2. To the Fox News viewers

and the dittoheads, Cruz's speech last week was a valiant attempt to keep the government running in the face of the Democrats' refusal to capitulate to his demands.

[Martin Eden]

3. Cruz really excels ...

... at taking LIES & HYPOCRISY to new heights (or new lows, take your pick).

[tofuandbeer]

17. And as such, is a perfect GOP candidate for President.

[ffr]

5. #GOPshutdown

Any questions. Yes?

Sen. Ted Cruz & Rep. Mark Meadows. Any more? Didn't think so.

[SoapBox]

6. Cruz...THE stupidest of the current stupid fucks.

...asshole.

[Heather MC]

7. What The Furlough!!!! indeed

[Snake Plissken]

8. Baggers are not confined to the realm we all know as reality

Somehow the media feels the need to entertain this nonsense, instead of calling it what it is ... insanity.

[nuxvomica]

9. No reporter should let them cry "principle"

If they really want us to believe that this is a principled attack on the ACA then why not accept the responsibility for the shutdown? Seriously, if I were a genuine Tea Bagger, I'd be pissed that my reps weren't wholeheartedly embracing responsibility for it.

[dotymed]

10. Yes, America does suffer from terrorism.

Mainly at the hands of corporate politicians. The only solution?
TAKE MONEY OUT OF POLITICS.

[corkhead]

11. Projection much?

[DhhD]

12. Lack of Leadership: Blame someone else. The two faces of Cruz: ask for a shut down, then blame it

on others. He must be laughing at all the low-information hanging fruit that voted for him. It is like he and his TEA Gorillas have ambushed their prey, Republicans like Boehner, Cornyn and others.

[Hydepier]

13. This man is as delusional as Michele Bachmann

Too bad he's a Senator.

[heaven05]

14. Is this the face and voice

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of the 21st century beginnings of a new Jim Crow era because the whiney RW white males in the teahadist party and elsewhere and some females feel extremely threatened by the new demographics predicted for america's populace/society? Is this obstructionism and attempted destruction of a duly elected(twice) administration's legacy the virulent beginnings of a new quest for white male and female supremacy in amerikkka, even as a racial minority status looms for Caucasians? I think this is at the bottom of this whole tantrum. Virulent racism disguised as 'politics as usual'. Good luck,teddy, you're doing your namesake proud.

[Bill USA]

15. The Economics and Politics of Chaos - Krugman

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/the-economics-and-politics-of-chaos/?_r=1

The best commentary I’ve seen on what just happened is visual, and can be seen here. Unfortunately, I don’t think I should put that image on a Times web site.

But how did we get here? Interestingly, Ezra Klein implicitly offers two quite different interpretations.

First, he describes very well what the policy issue, such as it is, amounts to:

This is all about stopping a law that increases taxes on rich people and reduces subsidies to private insurers in Medicare in order to help low-income Americans buy health insurance. That’s it. That’s why the Republican Party might shut down the government and default on the debt.

Indeed. There’s a definite class-war aspect to this fight, pitting the interests of the 0.1 percent against those of lower-income families. But at this point the 0.1 percent, by and large, are pleading with the GOP to knock it off. So while class war may have been where this started, the monster has long since escaped from its cage; even Karl Rove, more or less the designated defender of upper-class privileges, is whining that the party won’t listen to him.

In a different post, Klein alludes to this by quoting Mann and Ornstein:

The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics — it is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.

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[BlancheSplanchnik]

19. excellent...thanks

Especially because this level of pathological dishonesty is too much for me to bear. All I can do is sputter. And say that I hate these sewage slurping sociopaths.

[red dog 1]

22. + 1000

Thanks Bill USA for the link to Paul Krugman's excellent New York Times blog post

[Burf-_-]

16. 2014

midterms have never looked worse for the GOP. I like that.

[WinkyDink]

18. There are people who would agree with Mr. Cruz.They're called "Republicans."

[Cha]

20. Am I allowed to say this?..

Fucking Lying Sociopathic Asshole!

Thank you so much for highlighting said asshole's LIES, EarlG.. and on a Saturday!

[DFW]

21. At long last, sir.......

Have you no sense of coherency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of coherency?

(Of course not, he's a right-wing Republican, just like the one to whom this question was originally posed on June 9, 1954, using "decency" instead of "coherency." The unspoken answer in both cases was "NO !&quot

[red dog 1]

23. Thanks EarlG

In a Washington Post article last Tuesday, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) said he sees the shutdown more as a "guerrilla tactic" than a conservative policy.

[oldandhappy]

24. t-pubs ran on shutting down the gov in 2010.

We need to keep posting the facts which show the misstatements of these t-pub folk.

They are costing us a LOT of money.

[maddiemom]

25. Just like claiming that if you hit the bully back, the fight was your fault.

[Dan de Lyons]

26. Cruz did admit...

... that the shutdown is benefiting the Democrats politically. That's a start. If he could begin to measure that benefit, he might realize how he's been pwned.

[Beartracks]

27. That's rich. Shoot the hostage, then blame it on those who didn't bow to your demands. But...

... only because the whole thing backfired in the court of public opinion.

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[drynberg]

28. CRUZ IS A LYING SACK OF SHIT

Boner too!

[Matariki]

29. It's so nice to see their "repeat it til it sticks" strategy failing MISERABLY

[Blue Owl]

30. Ted's Cruzin' for a bruisin'...

n/t

[dmr]

31. K, R & T

(T for Tweeted)