For those willing to share in the next few hours of defund-Obamacare discussion from Senator Ted Cruz (tag-teaming a little with Rand Paul) as he talks his way through the night (having started at 2:41pm ET) - ending only when he is "no longer able to stand," or the 15-hour Senate floor limit; the following link provides the blow-by-blow (water works and all).
Via C-SPAN - (click image for live stream)
[5]
ABC News is curating a list of Sen. Cruz’s most memorable lines [6]:
- “It’s a little bit like the World Wrestling Federation. It’s wrestling matches where…the outcome is pre-rigged, the outcome is predetermined. They know who’s going to win and it’s all for show.” (Cruz on the continuing resolution vote in the Senate).
- “The American people are frustrated because their elected officials don’t listen. When we’re home on the campaign trail, we say we listen. And yet something about this senate floor, something about Washington, D.C. I don’t know if it’s the water, something in the air, the cherry blossoms, but people get here and they stop listening to the American people.”
- “The moon might be as intimidating as Obamacare.”
- “I confess I don’t go to a lot of cocktail parties in town.”
- “Most Americans could not give a flying flip about a bunch of politicians in Washington. Almost all of us are in cheap suits with bad haircuts. Who cares?”