Senate GOP's Constituents Are Confused About Obamacare Vote

[Tx4obama]

Senate GOP's Constituents Are Confused About Obamacare Vote

Senate Republicans voted unanimously Wednesday to begin debate on a government spending bill that defunds Obamacare.

In the normal universe of a week ago, it makes perfect sense. But in Ted Cruz's new alternate universe, it threw conservative constituents for a total loop. Hadn't the Texas Republican been begging his colleagues to vote against such a procedural move? Wasn't this the moment to stand up to and fight, not to appease like Neville Chamberlain?

It fell to beleaguered congressional staffers to try to explain the procedural morass to confused constituents.

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As another Senate Republican aide told TPM earlier this week: "Rule No. 1 in communications is if you are explaining, you are losing."

Full article here: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/senate-gop-s-constituents-are-confused-about-obamacare-vote

[pinboy3niner]

1. Ted Cruz is a joke...

[Cha]

2. Did you do that?! It's descriptive! He's an embarrassment to the US Senate as a

whole. And, to the Texans who voted him in.

I like the way Jon puts it..

“So to express your opposition to Obamacare, you go to the book about a stubborn jerk who decides he hates something before he’s tried it, and when he finally gets a taste, he has to admit after he’s tasted it, ‘This is pretty fucking good.’”

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"Stewart then went after Cruz on the specifics of his health care objections, and ended the segment with an epic reading of a fake Dr. Seuss book called The Bore-ax, containing phrases like “showboatiest blab” and “hours of mouth masturbation."

h/t Tx http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017147813

pinboy3niner

[pinboy3niner]

5. Sounds like Jon skewered him pretty well

I couldn't find a Cruz Cat in the Hat image, so I was left to my own devices.

[Cha]

7. Your own devices served you well.. :)

[joshcryer]

4. I'm impressed by your MS Paint skills.

[pinboy3niner]

6. Second-graders put my stick figures to shame

But I had to do SOMETHING. It seemed an obvious take, but I couldn't find any images out there. And I don't have anything to do image layers now, so I was forced to resort to Paint.

[joshcryer]

11. I KNEW it was Paint.

Frankly I think the lack of total perfection was a nice touch. I KNOW you could've filled out those empty bits, but knowing you it wouldn't have been as funny. I like the result. <3

[trusty elf]

9. .......

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[Scurrilous]

3. Hahaha

They've out-clevered themselves and their constituents.

[cui bono]

8. To be fair...

they were confused long before this vote.

[charmay]

10. Exactly!