had Ted Cruz never even been born?

Only YOU can do so!

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And we don't know, maybe Ted will get some of what he wants, anyway.
That grand-for-just-a-few-people bargain thingy.
Reid is talking a good game, but I have learned to wait for actual results to rhapsodize, and to be noisy well before a political stance or policy is signed into law.

Talk is cheap. Well, if you don't count what the big donors paid, but then they think of this stuff, correctly, as a good investment.