Ted Cruz proves his anusity

 

So you must be wondering what "anusity" means.  

It means resemblance to an anus.  (I made it up, but it should be a word.)

But if the orifice fits ...

 Cruz set to filibuster any Democratic attempt to raise debt limit

"While the GOP has vowed it won't give Democrats the affirmative votes they need to raise the borrowing limit, the party could theoretically decline to filibuster a debt bill, allowing Democrats to increase the nation's credit cap with a simple majority vote in the Senate. But Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said in an interview that he won’t allow that to happen, echoing his party's growing insistence that default be avoided along party lines using the budget reconciliation process -- a tactic Democratic leaders have thus far eschewed. “Democrats have the full ability to raise the debt ceiling as a part of reconciliation,” Cruz said. “They want political cover.” 

Actually, they don't.  What the Democrats are doing is playing a political game of chicken (and it is dangerous).  They are daring the Republicans to allow the country to come to the point of defaulting on the debt payments;  i.e., daring them to potentially tank the U.S. and global economy.  And then the Democrats could blame that on them ... if anybody cares to listen in the smoking depressed ruins of global civilization.

Here's the thing ... in a game of chicken, there is the tacit assumption that both participants are sane and both are still committed to the concept of continuing existence. I.e., neither one of them is actually willing to die.  But with today's Republicans, that's not an operative rule, because they have demonstrated that they don't have any compunctions about taking the country down in flames with them if that's the direction they're headed.

So, since a lot of them do bear a striking resemblance to flaming anuses, that is the direction they're headed.   

And somehow we have to stop them.