Senate Reaches Bipartisan Deal to Shut Down Ted Cruz

[cali]

In what is being hailed as a rare example of bipartisan coöperation, Senate Democrats and Republicans came together today on a near-unanimous vote to defund Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).

The measure, which shuts down all nonessential functions of Sen. Cruz, passed by a margin of ninety-nine to one.

As the final vote was announced this morning, Sen. Cruz’s microphone was unplugged and the Senate exploded with cheers on both sides of the aisle.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) said that the vote to defund the Texas senator showed that bipartisan coöperation is possible even in the usually rancorous Senate: “Every now and then the two parties can reach across the aisle and find something that we both despise with all our might.”

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http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/09/senate-reaches-bipartisan-deal-to-shut-down-ted-cruz.html

[alsame]

1. LOL. nt

[libdem4life]

2. You almost had me there until the url ... there's hardly any territory left for satire anymore.

Must admit the term "defund" was a clue. There'd only be one possibility for that lone vote. Good for a chuckle.

[MiniMe]

4. I knew it was satire as soon as I read it

Reid and Cruz had a deal before Cruz started bloviating. That is why Reid kept saying it wasn't a filibuster.

[libdem4life]

5. I am forced to become even more cinical...sigh. Oh yeah, and that deal pisses me off, too.

[gopiscrap]

3. Well said