I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

You know, the irony of Carnie Cruz reading "Green Eggs and Ham" on the Senate floor during his little temper tantrum (no, I don't admire him for holding up the people's business to have a temper tantrum) was apparently lost on Cruz and his sheep. Uh ... It is about not being negative about new things before you try them. Du-uh!

From the Edge today:

TODAY IN ONE PARAGRAPH: Ted Cruz was forced off the floor after 21 hours, Harry Reid called it a "waste of time," and the Senate voted unanimously on the most preliminary of steps to set up a cloture-vote showdown later this week. If Reid gets cloture, he'll have a clear path to passing a budget extension that protects Obamacare funding, and the measure will then be sent back to the House. Elsewhere, the Treasury Department handed Congress a deadline of Oct. 17 for raising the debt ceiling, the Obama administration released new information on what Americans will pay for insurance under Obamacare, and the FBI released more information (and video) on the Navy Yard shooting.

BREAKING NOW—A CURVEBALL FROM THE GOP: "Multiple GOP senators tell [National Review's Robert Costa that] House Republicans will likely pass a short-term continuing resolution to fund the government into early October. 'It'd be a short-term, clean CR,' as one describes the legislation. 'It'd fund the government for one week or so and keep us talking,' says another senator.… House Republican aides say the leadership is still considering several options and would not confirm the report." (Robert Costa, National Review)

WHAT'S NEXT: The Senate is expected to take the key budget vote Friday or Saturday, where Reid will be looking to score 60 votes to get cloture on the resolution. With cloture, Democrats would have all the votes they need to remove the Obamacare defunding provisions from the budget extension, and send the clean version back to the House.

WHO WILL STAND WITH TED? The cloture vote seems likely to pass, but the drama centers on which side GOP senators will take in their party's internal civil war. They can stick with Mitch McConnell and vote for cloture, or they can heed Cruz's call to block any bill that funds the Affordable Care Act, even if that means a government shutdown. Cruz is promising to make life painful for his party mates who vote for cloture, as he has repeatedly promised to tell voters that "a vote for cloture is a vote for Obamacare."

RELIVE THE CRUZ HIGHLIGHTS: National Journal kept a play-by-play blog of Cruz's not-quite filibuster, featuring Nazi references, a feisty exchange with Dick Durbin, a Darth Vader impression ("Mike Lee, I am your father!") and a full reading of Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham. (Berman/Vasilogambros/Volz, NJ)

I think Carnival Clown Cruz is cruizing without a deck.

Jackie

RL- apparently Elisabeth Hasselback, in addition to Cruz, got the meaning of the green eggs story backassward too. Logically, what Children's book would encourage their reader to turn up their nose at something without trying it first.



From POLITICO



“Without a doubt, if Dr. Seuss were still around today, he would be poking fun at and criticizing Ted Cruz,” Dreier told POLITICO.

Dreier included Dr. Seuss — whose real name is Theodor Geisel — in his book, “The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame” and said Geisel would be “offended” at Cruz using the famous children’s book in his argument against Obamacare.

“‘Green Eggs and Ham’ is about trying new things and giving it a chance and being open to change, right? And here’s Ted Cruz trying to stop Obamacare, really before it gets going,” Dreier said.

Cruz’s office did not immediately responded to request for comment.

Dreier added that most people considered Geisel to be a progressive and before he was a children’s book author, was an editorial cartoonist at a left-wing paper.

Another Seuss scholar says that Dr. Seuss wouldn’t have “much patience” with Cruz.

“I mean in some ways Ted Cruz is a Dr. Seuss character…he is this kind of cartoon character who sort of parodies his own behavior. You could imagine him as being in a Dr. Seuss book without really changing much about him, he’s so outlandish,” said Phil Nel, a Seuss scholar and professor of children’s literature at Kansas State University.





Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/dr-seuss-ted-cruz-97350.html#ixzz2fxJnHmSo

You can say that again, and again, and again.  Even though I know how the Regressive Regressitans  logic works, I still will end up dumb-founded often.  I mean do you censure for the outlandishness that is wrong or pity for the apparent total in-ability to be able to view ones-self through the eyes of so many, many others that do not and will not ever be able to SEE as they see. 

I guess I too would have to say....go ahead.  Increase that losing edge/streak by leaps and bounds.  It is nothing to me if you wish to devour yourself.  Enjoy.

Jackie

If he's not careful, both countries might disown him.  Isn't Cuba still in his background somewhere or do I have confused with that other confused poltician from Florida?

They read, Cruz though is apparently missing comprehension skills for the work of Dr. Seuss. The whole idea behind green eggs and ham was to not make up your mind about something without trying it. Yet the tea party is attempting to convince everyoneto hate the ACA without trying it.

Thinking about what you said RL......and the fact it seems that the old, sick, or weak are just supposed to kindly die please as you can't do us any good.  As you so aptly pointed out though.....so many of 'those' people are the very ones who make life better --- do the work --- pay the taxes and add the wonderful boosts to life that are enjoyed by the "made it" group. 

Other interesting thoughts might be.....there are many who don't NEED or WANT to have a big fat bank-roll.  Many manage quite well without it and could and would continue to live useful, productive lives being only happy to brighten the world in whatever way they can. 

On to work today.  See you all later.

Jackie 

Clinton once said that the uproar over any mention of gun control in rural areas has a lot to do with "hunting and fishing."  For many, this is their leisure time - most either not inclined, but many who cannot afford, fancy trips to foreign countries.  Between that and stamping Democrats, incorrectly, as the Party that would take their guns away, makes choosing a Democrat risky business, in their minds, maybe even causing hate for Democrats, if they thought they would interfere with their only leisure time activity.  At the same time, those people might be better off if they voted Democratic, but they can't get past one of their primary fears and prejudices.

I somewhat disagree, though, that Fox News only feeds these archtypes (the above being one example "Democrats want to take your guns away").  Ofcourse, O'Reilly doesn't believe the bile he is feeding, but I do think Fox does it for more insidious reasons - acting as an arm of Corporate America and the politicians Corporate America has elected.  I believe Fox has created a majority if not all of this knee jerk rightwing political hate.  They have the ability to create stories out of whole cloth - not just react to them.  Witness Bengahzi, Fast and Furious, and all of the misinformation about Obamacare.

I'm sure some of us have heard the story of the man at the Kentucky fair:

A middle-aged man in a red golf shirt shuffles up to a small folding table with gold trim, in a booth adorned with a flotilla of helium balloons, where government workers at the Kentucky State Fair are hawking the virtues of Kynect, the state's health benefit exchange established by Obamacare.

The man is impressed. "This beats Obamacare I hope," he mutters to one of the workers.

"Do I burst his bubble?" wonders Reina Diaz-Dempsey, overseeing the operation. She doesn't. If he signs up, it's a win-win, whether he knows he's been ensnared by Obamacare or not.

Yep, that guy in Kentucky has been told so many times to hate Obamacare that he genuinely believes it's awful. But in Kentucky, a red state with a Democratic governor, implementation of the Affordable Care Act is continuing apace with the creation of "Kynect" -- the state's new health care marketplace. Indeed, as Cherkis explained, "The state had spent millions establishing the exchange, staffing up outreach, and conducting market research that included holding a dozen focus groups in Louisville, Paducah and London."

And as the anecdote helps demonstrate, it's having some success. People don't necessarily realize that new benefits available in Kentucky have anything to do with the federal law they've been conditioned to reject. It's why they're impressed when they hear the pitch from policy experts like Reina Diaz-Dempsey -- the benefits sound like a pretty good deal for folks.

If they think those benefits "beat Obamacare," so be it.

Of course, this does suggest something health care proponents are going to have to get used to: the Affordable Care Act has an Obamacare problem.

As Jonathan Bernstein explained a while back, "The law is going to make health care better for many Americans. A lot of them just won't realize it's the same thing as the Obamacare they hate."