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Tuesday, 24 September 2013
Want to know why Ted Cruz is trying so hard to defund Obamacare?
He's standing up on the floor of the U.S. Senate, right now!, vowing to "talk until he can't stand anymore."
"I rise in opposition to Obamacare," the Texas Republican began. This speech may go on for a while.
I wish I could stand there with him. I want him to know that I'm with him in spirit.
As it happens, at our annual block party this past weekend someone asked me why republicans like Ted Cruz are "wasting their time" trying to defund Obamacare. I said, because it's the right thing to do, it makes a statement that needs to be heard. He was unconvinced. "Pick your battles," he said. It's a trainwreck, I replied.
Yesterday Thomas Sowell asked essentially the same question, and Smitty raised the battle cry.
The reasons for making every possible effort to defund ObamaCare, as I see it, are:
- It's an economic wrecking ball.
- Fighting now, even if Ted Cruz is a modern Leonidas, plants the seeds. After the wrecking ball has made its rubble, the "Vote your way out of this" cry can arise. But where is the voice for that if the GOP isn't trying now?
- From a negotiating standpoint, if you don't stake out your strongest position, how can you hope to compromise usefully, e.g. a one-year stay of swinging of the wrecking ball?
- The sheer mendouchious twatwafflery of Nancy Pelosi accusing the GOP of not arguing in good faith would be kinda funny, if there were not so much at stake.
Wolverines!
Oh, and
Mitch McConnell is a feckless crapweasel. But you already knew that.
Posted at 16:14 by Chris Wysocki
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