karn wrote:Cruz is still making very relevant points 5 hours in. No real expectations to sway even a single vote (nor does he) but the guy is right on with the inequities of ACA

That's not all of course. Cruz opposes raising taxes on the wealthy. The public supports it. Cruz opposes gun control. The public supports it. Cruz supports sharply cutting spending on Medicare and Social Security. The public opposes it. If Cruz actually believed his job was directly representing the will of the people, his voting record would be extremely different than it is.
Which is why it's so odd Cruz has chosen this argument. He could just be up there arguing against Obamacare. Instead he's arguing that we need to #MakeDCListen. He's making a broad, quasi-philosophical argument that senators should more fully reflect public opinion. But even he doesn't believe it. Cruz's filibuster is self-refuting.

TenuredVulture wrote:I really, really, hope the Republicans nominate Cruz for Pres. He'd struggle to reach 40% of the popular vote.

karn wrote:That's a pretty useless comment from Klein without context behind each of the three issues. Living on the internet reading blogs and pundits grossly miscolours the reality of day to day middle class America which is suffering, has not entered ANY phase of significant recovery from 2008 and will greatly suffer more under this bill

td11 wrote:hey calvin, karn is trying to make serious points in here and i feel like you're just making jokes like "he compared ACA to nazi Germany"

Houshphandzadeh wrote:he's filibustering. it's how it works; you spew a bunch on nonsense to kill time

td11 wrote:it's not a filibuster

swishnicholson wrote:

Houshphandzadeh wrote:he's filibustering. it's how it works; you spew a bunch on nonsense to kill time

I thought that was how message boards worked.