Dylan Byers writes up a piece at Politico decrying ‘liberal media bias’ against Ted Cruz and then as evidence cites two opinion writers/pages. His concern in particular is why Cruz isn’t getting positive press in the way Wendy Davis did down in Texas.
But here’s the best part … Read More
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.