{"id":2967,"date":"2013-09-29T00:06:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T07:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2013-09-30T14:53:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T21:53:36","slug":"snooze-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2967","title":{"rendered":"Snooze Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The talk of this past week is all about Texas junior Senator Ted Cruz&#8217;s 21 hour filibuster (or filibluster) to oppose Obamacare. <a title=\"Jon Stewart Delivers Stinging Takedown of Ted Cruz Filibuster\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FOX6KjxKfbg\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Stewart humorously covered the filibuster fiasco quite nicely on the Daily Show<\/a>. Ted Cruz is the perfect picture of today&#8217;s modern Republican Teabagger: smug, self-satisfied and completely clueless. Look at his pictures on the internet. Have you ever seen a smugger puss in your life?\u00a0\u00a0 <a title=\"Why Senate Republicans Hate Ted Cruz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/politics\/2013\/09\/ted_cruz_is_despised_by_senate_republicans_a_list_of_the_reasons_gop_senators.html\" target=\"_blank\">Even Republicans aren&#8217;t fond of this guy<\/a>. And this former Canadian has Presidential ambitions, too. We here at the Bucket have a solution. Why doesn&#8217;t Texas secede from the United States and Ted Cruz can be President of the new Lone Star Republic. It&#8217;s win-win for everybody. Texas becomes it&#8217;s own country with one of it&#8217;s own as it&#8217;s God-fearing, conservative leader and America gets rid of one seriously crazy, wack-a-doodle politician and the irritating state that gave us Dubya, Rick Perry and the most annoying slogan of all time, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Mess With Texas&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2971\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2971\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=2971\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2971\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2971\" title=\"tedcruzseussteapartyjoke\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tedcruzseussteapartyjoke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tedcruzseussteapartyjoke.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tedcruzseussteapartyjoke-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Texas Senator and Tea Party darling, Ted Cruz, impresses some admiring Teabaggers with his compassionate words of wisdom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The talk of this past week is all about Texas junior Senator Ted Cruz&#8217;s 21 hour filibuster (or filibluster) to oppose Obamacare. Jon Stewart humorously covered the filibuster fiasco quite nicely on the Daily Show. Ted Cruz is the perfect picture of today&#8217;s modern Republican Teabagger: smug, self-satisfied and completely clueless. Look at his pictures &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2967\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Snooze Cruz&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,8,85,3,198],"tags":[252,69,22,20,389,783,9,781,21,601,98,596,587,19,785,782,47,48,784,693],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2992,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions\/2992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}