Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) explained
Friday the reason behind Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s request for a vote on
cloture to be moved up from Thursday evening to the following
afternoon: He wanted his “tea bagger” buddies to watch.
“The reason Ted Cruz stood up and asked
for a delay is so that he could have a vote during today when the
‘tea
baggers’ in his Tea Party were going to watch,” the Chairwoman of the
Senate Appropriations Committee said Friday during an interview with
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell.
“That’s why I’ve repeatedly said: the greatest deliberative body in the world has become the greatest delay body in the world,” she added, perhaps not realizing the irony of a high-ranking member of “the greatest deliberative body in the world” referring to her political opponents as“tea baggers.”
For those of you keeping score at home, the White House and its allies have in the past few weeks referred to President Obama’s opponents as terrorists, hostage takers, arsonists, and anarchists.
And thanks to Sen. Mikulski, Sen. Cruz supporters got to round out a week of name-calling with the most tired of anti-Tea Party pejoratives. Well done, senator.
“That’s why I’ve repeatedly said: the greatest deliberative body in the world has become the greatest delay body in the world,” she added, perhaps not realizing the irony of a high-ranking member of “the greatest deliberative body in the world” referring to her political opponents as“tea baggers.”
For those of you keeping score at home, the White House and its allies have in the past few weeks referred to President Obama’s opponents as terrorists, hostage takers, arsonists, and anarchists.
And thanks to Sen. Mikulski, Sen. Cruz supporters got to round out a week of name-calling with the most tired of anti-Tea Party pejoratives. Well done, senator.