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Cruz Goes Even More Crazy

February 15, 2016September 29, 2018 B. John 392 Views 0 Comments Antonin Scalia, Chuck Todd, Meet the Press, Ted Cruz

It’s no surprise that Ted Cruz wants an ultra-conservative justice to replaced Antonin Scalia. What is surprising is how much he’s willing to lie about the consequences if that doesn’t happen. (But then again, he’s been lying for Jesus for quite a while now.) On Meet the Press Sunday, Cruz told host Chuck Todd that a liberal justice would mean the end of religious liberty — adding that religious symbols would be “sandblasted off of the tombstones of our fallen veterans”:

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The BS on Reconciliation

March 8, 2010August 10, 2015 326 Views 0 Comments E. J. Dionne, Healthcare Reform, Meet the Press, Orrin Hatch, Procedure, Reconciliation, Religion

Below is a youtube of a segment from Meet The Press this past Sunday in which E. J. Dionne calls out Sen. Orrin Hatch for the Republican’s continuing bullshit about the use of reconciliation to pass things based on a simple majority vote in the Senate. We need to be discussing policy and health insurance reform (or elimination), but instead, all the Republicans can come up with to try to “win” is to run around like Chicken Little complaining that the sky will fall if some Senate procedure is “out-procedured.”