Alan Simpson gives his version of being confronted last weekend by Lynne Cheney.
Jim DeMint offers a novel theory on why the results of the 2012 election shouldn’t really count for political purposes.
Behold! Our mashup of the most ridiculous moments of Ted Cruz’s phony filibuster. Watch.
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Cruz tells Limbaugh some Senators “think their voters are gullible rubes.”
This video of Aaron Alexis stalking the halls of the Navy Yard manages to be incredibly chilling without showing any graphic content.
In another sign of the tangled procedural web Ted Cruz found himself in, he just voted for cloture on the continuing resolution that he spent all night faux-filibustering.
It’s not completely illogical.
By voting for cloture, Cruz is saying he wants debate to begin on the resolution, which he supports in its current form. But he’ll oppose ending debate when that vote comes up later this week because once debate ends, Democrats in the Senate will strip the bill of the defund Obamacare provision and bring it to a final vote.
Got it? Like a GOP aide told us the other day, if you’re explaining in politics, you’re losing.
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.