Texas Ted Cruz Introduces New Senate Procedure, The Imbecilibuster [im-buh-silly-buster]. See Photo Record.
Michael Matthew Bloomer, September 27, 2013
By now even the youngest citizen of the remotest village on the remotest island on our planet knows of the Texas Ted Cruz imbecilibuster [im-buh-silly-buster], his 21 hour-long soliloquy to accomplish basically nothing legislative or responsible. It did, however, help him wrap up the support of the über right-wing for 2016. Using the Senate floor as a campaign stop was, of course, not a first, but Cruz’s creative imbecilibuster was. Below is our photo record of Senator Cruz’s path breaking speech
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