From Dr. Seuss to Big Bird to Barbie, Ted Cruz keeps taking an interest in the politics of pop culture. As stevebenen writes, he also keeps embarrassing himself in avoidable ways.
It’s not uncommon for politicians to take an interest in pop culture, but it’s best when they do so in a coherent way. Sen. Ted Cruz, for example, is amazingly bad at it.
For example, a decade ago, just six months into the Texas Republican’s congressional career, Cruz tried to condemn the Affordable Care Act“Green Eggs and Ham” on the Senate floor. “The difference with green eggs and ham — when Americans tried it, they discovered they did not like green eggs and ham, and they did not like Obamacare, either,” he declared. “They did not like Obamacare in a box, with a fox, in a house, or with a mouse.
There was, however, a small problem with the effort: Cruz apparently didn’t read all the way to the end of the story, since Dr. Seuss’ main character discovered that green eggs and ham really weren’t so bad after all. Indeed, the protagonist came to regret criticizing something he didn’t fully understand, and ended up celebrating the very thing he’d complained about so bitterly.
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