WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!?!?!?!?!?!
Hello and welcome to Katie's daily crisis! The part of her blog- Okay I can't. xD So yeah my mom put me in a church history class and I apparently missed the first meeting! -__- real good start I know. BUT! BEFORE WE GO ANYWHERE! We must talk about Senator Ted Cruz's filibuster that lasted 21 hours! :O
Okay this started at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon and went until noon today. ALL NIGHT that man stood there, trying to delay the vote on Obamacare. No sleep, no water breaks, and no bathroom breaks. Let's just let this all sink in. 21 hours. 21 HOURS he stood up there just talking. But that's getting ahead.
Let us first, before we dissect this speech/marathon/filibuster/whatever this is, Let's find out what a filibuster actually is.
The dictionary definition of a filibuster is, "an effort to prevent action in a legislature (such as the U.S. Senate or House of Representatives) by making a long speech or series of speeches." Thank you Merriam-Webster online dictionary. :) And the funny part is they can talk about anything in the world while the person(s) are talking. ANYTHING. They can read names out of a phonebook and it'd be consented. You can also have more than one speaker, but the point is no one leaves until they are either A: Cut off (Like today in the case of Ted Cruz), B: Get their way, or C: Give in. What did Senator Cruz do in the 21 hours he was up there?
......Well for one he read green eggs and ham to his daughters at home. :) and after telling them goodnight, added, "Let me say more broadly to everyone, “Green Eggs and Ham” has some applicability, as curious as it might sound, to ObamaCare, because 3\1/2\ years ago President Obama and Senate Democrats told the American people, Just try ObamaCare. Just try it. There were an awful lot of Republicans who were very skeptical of it, I think for good reasons, but very skeptical. And we were told try it, try it, try it, try it. Unfortunately, through an exercise of brute political force, ObamaCare became the law of the land.
But the difference with “Green Eggs and Ham” is when Americans tried it, they discovered they did not like greeneggs and ham and they did not like ObamaCare either. They did not like ObamaCare in a box, with a fox, in a house, or with a mouse. It is not working." If you are interested in the complete transcript of Ted Cruz's 21 hour speech, you can read it here. For more of just the highlights, click here.
This has concluded the political portion of today! :P I don't feel like posting my history class woes here, so I'll save that for later. If this makes sense or was just plain interesting feel free to let me know here, or on twitter, @Thatcoolrusher :)
Until next time!
-Katie
Hello and welcome to Katie's daily crisis! The part of her blog- Okay I can't. xD So yeah my mom put me in a church history class and I apparently missed the first meeting! -__- real good start I know. BUT! BEFORE WE GO ANYWHERE! We must talk about Senator Ted Cruz's filibuster that lasted 21 hours! :O
Okay this started at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon and went until noon today. ALL NIGHT that man stood there, trying to delay the vote on Obamacare. No sleep, no water breaks, and no bathroom breaks. Let's just let this all sink in. 21 hours. 21 HOURS he stood up there just talking. But that's getting ahead.
Let us first, before we dissect this speech/marathon/filibuster/whatever this is, Let's find out what a filibuster actually is.
The dictionary definition of a filibuster is, "an effort to prevent action in a legislature (such as the U.S. Senate or House of Representatives) by making a long speech or series of speeches." Thank you Merriam-Webster online dictionary. :) And the funny part is they can talk about anything in the world while the person(s) are talking. ANYTHING. They can read names out of a phonebook and it'd be consented. You can also have more than one speaker, but the point is no one leaves until they are either A: Cut off (Like today in the case of Ted Cruz), B: Get their way, or C: Give in. What did Senator Cruz do in the 21 hours he was up there?
......Well for one he read green eggs and ham to his daughters at home. :) and after telling them goodnight, added, "Let me say more broadly to everyone, “Green Eggs and Ham” has some applicability, as curious as it might sound, to ObamaCare, because 3\1/2\ years ago President Obama and Senate Democrats told the American people, Just try ObamaCare. Just try it. There were an awful lot of Republicans who were very skeptical of it, I think for good reasons, but very skeptical. And we were told try it, try it, try it, try it. Unfortunately, through an exercise of brute political force, ObamaCare became the law of the land.
But the difference with “Green Eggs and Ham” is when Americans tried it, they discovered they did not like greeneggs and ham and they did not like ObamaCare either. They did not like ObamaCare in a box, with a fox, in a house, or with a mouse. It is not working." If you are interested in the complete transcript of Ted Cruz's 21 hour speech, you can read it here. For more of just the highlights, click here.
This has concluded the political portion of today! :P I don't feel like posting my history class woes here, so I'll save that for later. If this makes sense or was just plain interesting feel free to let me know here, or on twitter, @Thatcoolrusher :)
Until next time!
-Katie
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