Ted Cruz Takes A Victory Lap with the King Street Patriots

[TexasTowelie]

HOUSTON--After Ted Cruz’s turn on the national stage—the “filibuster,” the shutdown, the flirtation with self-inflicted economic meltdown—the man has probably earned a little me-time. A little break from the arm-twisting and the name-calling, a chance to joke around with a few old friends.

Sometimes you want to go where everybody chants your name.

For Cruz on Monday night, that was King Street Patriots headquarters in Houston, home to Texas’ preeminent bunch of red-blooded, freedom-loving and positively nonpartisan warriors for the old stars and stripes.

Before a standing-room crowd in King Street’s warehouse, Cruz made a symbolic Texas homecoming—on a tour that continues Tuesday night at a tea party-sponsored “Thank You Ted Cruz” party in Arlington—to share the good word from the front line.

The King Street Patriots’ founder, Catherine Engelbrecht, made sure Cruz left with a souvenir from the occasion: a copy of War and Peace signed by members of the crowd, which she suggested he use as ammunition for his next filibuster. The book, she joked, is ”widely considered to be one of the nation’s greatest works of fiction … like the Obamacare bill.”

Michael Berry—the conservative Houston talk radio jock who once said he hoped someone blows up the Islamic community center at Ground Zero—had the honor of revving up the crowd before Cruz took the stage.

More at http://www.texasobserver.org/ted-cruz-takes-victory-lap/ .

[font color=green]Question to Ms. Engelbrecht:

Are you a product of TEA Party education efforts? War and Peace isn't one of the nation's greatest works of fiction. It was written by Russian author Leo Tolstoy.[/font]

[ZRT2209]

1. Conservative talker Michael Berry says he went into gay bar for the "cold beer",

A week after allegations emerged that conservative radio host and former Houston city councilman Michael Berry was involved in a hit-and-run accident outside a Montrose gay bar, Berry is responding to the controversy.

At 11 p.m. on Jan. 31, Berry allegedly drove his Chevy Tahoe in reverse for 70 feet outside of T.C.'s Show Bar before hitting a parked car, causing $1,500 in damage, and fleeing the scene. T.C.'s bouncer Tuderia Bennett, the owner of the car, says he witnessed the accident and could identify Berry as the driver.

A police investigation traced the license plate of the Tahoe to Berry, and bar owners provided surveillance video of Berry inside the gay bar just before the time of the accident.

On his KTRH show on Tuesday morning, Berry slammed KPRC's report as a "smear campaign" by "unnamed sources," threatening that "Channel 2, I’ve got my sights on you. … You can smear my name without me but I’m not going down without a fight," before referring to the station as "S.O.B.s."

http://houston.culturemap.com/news/city_life/02-23-12-conservative-talk-show-host-michael-berry-says-he-went-into-gay-bar-for-the-cold-beer-claims-he-has-never-bashed-gays/