Wednesday, September 25, 2013
How Did He Do It?
Senator Ted Cruz has just completed a 21-hour filibuster in a mostly futile attempt to defund Obamacare.
The rules of the Senate require Cruz to talk stand up the entire time. He wore sneakers to make himself more comfortable, but still, standing for 21 hours, that's got to be tough. If he sits for even a second, he yields the floor and his filibuster is over.
There is no food allowed on the Senate floor so he couldn't eat, maybe he had a small snack. He was allowed to drink, so he must have had like 40 cups of coffee.
I couldn't stand for 21 hours, I certainly couldn't go 21 hours without eating (unless it was Yom Kippur) but most of all, I know I couldn't go 21 hours without peeing. I think there's a decent chance he either had a catheter put in, or wore some kind of adult diaper like Depends or Poise.
And he must have taken Immodium beforehand because if he had one in the chamber there's no way he could have fought that off for 21 hours.
So he couldn't sit, eat, pee or shit, and most importantly he couldn't stop talking. He could yield for a question, but basically he was talking for nearly a whole day straight.
And when he ran out of things to say, he did this:
Apparently his daughters enjoyed Senator Cruz reading "Green Eggs and Ham":
More astute Poopheads will remember a similar scenario from a memorable episode of "The West Wing."
I don't remember that episode for some reason. No recess allowed? Wouldn't the chairman be entitled to a call it?
ReplyDeleteIt's a really great episode, you should try to find it somehow.
ReplyDeleteThe rules of filibuster state that if you leave or sit you yield the floor. You can yield for a question, but I think in real life you can't sit while it is asked. They took a liberty with that on "The West Wing."