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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTed Cruz: Your Two-Time Equine Posterior Achievement Award Winner
Congratulations to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who has won this years Equine Posterior Achievement Award, People For the American Ways annual prize for the country's most extreme right-wing politician. Cruz won by a 21-point margin in a poll of PFAW members and Right Wing Watch readers, repeating his 2013 victory, when he beat out the likes of Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin for the coveted award. The Texas Board of Education came in second place this year, emerging as a serious contender as a result of another round of historical revisionism, denial of climate change science and flirtation with Creationism.
Cruz ended the year by embarrassing himself when he pulled a stunt that backfired badly. The Texas senator and Tea Party darling hoped to humiliate President Obama and congressional leaders by challenging a bipartisan budget bill as a way to show his anger with the presidents recent executive actions on immigration.
Instead, Cruzs maneuver was easily defeated, but it did give Senate Democrats the opportunity to put several judicial and executive nominees up for a vote before Republicans took control of the chamber, delighting Democrats while fomenting anger amongst Cruzs fellow Republicans.
- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ted-cruz-your-two-time-equine-posterior-achievement-award-winner#sthash.HdUpZ8Xx.dpuf
Cruz ended the year by embarrassing himself when he pulled a stunt that backfired badly. The Texas senator and Tea Party darling hoped to humiliate President Obama and congressional leaders by challenging a bipartisan budget bill as a way to show his anger with the presidents recent executive actions on immigration.
Instead, Cruzs maneuver was easily defeated, but it did give Senate Democrats the opportunity to put several judicial and executive nominees up for a vote before Republicans took control of the chamber, delighting Democrats while fomenting anger amongst Cruzs fellow Republicans.
- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ted-cruz-your-two-time-equine-posterior-achievement-award-winner#sthash.HdUpZ8Xx.dpuf
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Ted Cruz: Your Two-Time Equine Posterior Achievement Award Winner (Original Post)
herding cats
Dec 2014
OP
The horse's ass is very good at doing his worse when it would serve him well to do good deeds.
Thinkingabout
Dec 2014
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Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)1. The horse's ass is very good at doing his worse when it would serve him well to do good deeds.
lastlib
(23,224 posts)2. Dare I say, Texas is the horse's ass capital of Amurrka?
I think we should give Oklahoma an honorable mention for its botched execution a few months ago.
underpants
(182,788 posts)3. The Calgary Kid
What an a-hole
pampango
(24,692 posts)4. Here are 2 videos of Cruz showing how he won back-to-back Horses' Ass awards.