Cruz tells Limbaugh some Senators “think their voters are gullible rubes.”

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Behold! Our mashup of the most ridiculous moments of Ted Cruz’s phony filibuster. Watch.

Jim DeMint offers a novel theory on why the results of the 2012 election shouldn’t really count for political purposes.

Alan Simpson gives his version of being confronted last weekend by Lynne Cheney.

Comedian arrested after punching DC foreign policy reporter who was snarking his standup routine on Twitter.

Ted Cruz, invented by Comedy Central to provide material for Jon Stewart.

I like how in the Lynne Cheney-Alan Simpson contretemps, Cheney went from “That simply did not happen” on Monday to “I told him he was out of line” on Thursday.

Shortly after President Obama finished a rousing speech in suburban DC hailing the beginning of enrollment in Obamacare next week, the administration announced that it was delaying enrollment for another month for small businesses and would not have a Spanish-language version of the Obamacare website ready in time for the Oct. 1 enrollment launch.

Suess the subversive probably would have been less than thrilled with Ted Cruz bandying about “Green Eggs and Ham” on the Senate floor — but he would have recognized the irony.