For many decades Dr. Seuss has entertained children and parents with his delightful rhymes, entertaining pictures and compelling characters. His stories always contain life lessons and they go down easily for millions of children around the world due to his easy style. One of those lessons seems to have been lost on Senator Ted Cruz (R-Pluto).
Cruz has been doing his fake filibuster to oppose the bill he insisted be passed by the House. Some might call that crazy, but it is politics as usual for today’s Republicans.
The bill that Cruz is grandstanding against would insist upon the defunding of Obamacare as a condition of passing a continuing resolution to keep the government functioning. In the event that the Senate refuses that bill, the alternatives that are available are to send a clean bill to the house (sans defunding Obamacare) or to just defeat the bill in the Senate. Either would shut down the government. That is how much Cruz hates Obamacare – or at least he thinks that it serves his narrow self-interest to grandstand – or maybe both – that he is willing to paralyze all of America.
So, he blathered on the floor of the Senate, including reading Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham. The hero of this Seussian journey to a lesson is Sam, who repeatedly tells us,
“I do not like green eggs and ham.
“I do not like them, Sam I am.”
Sam declares this in spite of never having tried green eggs and ham. Not even a tiny bite. In the end, he does taste them and to his shock and surprise, he likes them. The lesson, of course, is not to reject things without trying them first.
I’m wondering if Senator Cruz understands the absurd irony of his reading Green Eggs And Ham during his filibuster, since it is clear that he hasn’t tried Obamacare, effectively saying,
“I have not tried Obamacare.
“I’m limited by my cranial air.”
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