A filibuster is a way to prevent or at least delay a vote on
a bill you oppose. I learned that from listening to my fifth grade history
teacher and from watching Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Neither prepared me for
what I read in the paper this week. Texas Senator Ted Cruz held up a vote on a
temporary spending bill for more than 21 hours while he read aloud from (among
other things) Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham. Then he turned around and voted
FOR the bill he’d been blocking. Confused? Welcome to the club. That’s not the
most puzzling thing I’ve heard about Senator Cruz. He’s being groomed as
Republican presidential candidate for 2016, though he was born in Canada. The
constitution states, “No person except a natural born citizen . . . shall be
eligible to the office of president.” Maybe instead of Dr. Seuss, Cruz should have
read from my fifth grade history book.
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