Perhaps best CSPAN video feed caption ever. In classic understated CSPAN style. Just look.
The most recent analog to what Ted Cruz is doing on the Senate floor was the nearly nine-hour floor speech Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) gave in December 2010 to protest the extension of the Bush tax cuts. That wasn’t a filibuster either — notwithstanding the title of the subsequent book version of Sanders’ speech.
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The federal auction of ex-Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s stuff, which was cancelled last week after TPM raised questions about it, was just a great big mess. Here’s the latest.
Cruz pre-negotiated terms of his fake filibuster with Reid.
This is the Communications Director for Freedom Works, one of the groups spearheading this debacle …
@ericdkoch I guess sometimes you have to beat the entrenched Republicans before you can beat the Democrats….
— FreedomDork (@JackieBodnar) September 24, 2013
A TPM reader with a Wyoming background offers this analysis of Lynne Cheney’s reported confrontation with former Sen. Alan Simpson (R) for not backing Liz Cheney’s Senate candidacy: Read More
Cruz likens Obamacare defunding skeptics to Nazi appeasers. Watch.
Ted Cruz is reportedly about to take to the Senate floor for what can most charitably be called a mock filibuster. We’re still sorting out the particulars, but it appears that under the rules governing the Senate’s current debate, on the continuing resolution that would either defund Obamacare or shutdown the government, a true talking filibuster is not permitted.
Cruz may be able to talk for quite a while, but it’s not a filibuster. The technical term for it is … grandstanding. You can watch here.
Late Update: Cruz began speaking at approximately 2:41 p.m. ET., announcing that he would continue “until I am no longer able to stand.” Read More