Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued on Friday that a campaign spending law that limits how much his campaign can pay back him back after an election was like making civil rights leader Rosa Parks sit in the back of the bus.
I generally laugh at most everything good ole Ted says, but this almost made me spit iced tea all over my screen. What a maroon!
Oh good lord. Now he’s even more contemptable.
Cruza Parks. Might look something like this.
I didn’t know Rosa Parks, but you sir are no Rosa Parks!
And not holding my breath, but hoping it’s right again!
AOC needs to find a better ally.
How to make sure a legal argument about some obscure elements of campaign finance makes the news. Nice self-own, hoser cruz.
In addition to being a first-class doofus, this sad little man is not aging well.
"Here’s the thing you have to understand about Ted Cruz. I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz." – Former U.S. Senator Al Franken
While Cruz self-owning himself seems funny consider this is self-inflicted for a reason serious as a heart attack - they’re chipping away at any effort to constrain global oligarchs from further taking over rest of govt.
We missed a lot of the warning signs before 2016. Let’s not dismiss this one.
… The agency also alleges that Cruz only gave that loan to the campaign for the purpose of challenging the limit.
“The FEC also asserts that Senator Cruz and the Cruz Committee inflicted their injuries on themselves because they could have arranged to repay the Senator’s loans using pre-election funds,” Cruz’s legal team wrote in Friday’s filing. “Yes, and Rosa Parks could have sat in the back of the bus. FEC’s argument essentially faults Plaintiffs for not forfeiting the very constitutional right they seek to vindicate in this litigation.”
The courts have repeatedly ruled that spending money is speech, so it (not-so-logically) follows that getting getting pad back money you lent to finance speech is also speech.
I think I need to set up a corporation to run an exchange for trading leveraged derivatives on speech. The founding fathers fought hard for the rights of corporate persons to do this.
Oh, please. It’s really insulting that Cruz would make his struggle to skim campaign funds analogous to Rosa Parks being asked to vacate a bus seat. He is truly a horrid little man.
Come on, Ted.
You really want the GOP Jackass of the Year Award, don’t you?
When we see Cruz going to jail, getting beaten by police, and spat upon by the public for his opposition to the FEC rule, then, and only then, might we consider some very, very vague connection to Rosa Parks.
Ted does resemble the back of a bus but the Cuban Canadian will never be anything but a rank opportunist conservative fraud.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued on Friday that a campaign spending law that limits how much his campaign can pay back him back after an election was like making civil rights leader Rosa Parks sit in the back of the bus.
Wait, what?
I asked the same thing (i.e., “Wait, what?”) after reading that first sentence.
What the heck does “pay back him back” mean?
I wonder what oligarch gave him the money to try to take down more of the federal campaign protections.
He’s been taking communication lessons from Trump?
It’s tough not being in the news any more, isn’t it, Ted?
Still … this is the best you could come up with?
I still remember that great civil rights speech Ted Cruz made at the Lincoln Memorial, “I Have A Dramamine”.