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Sarah Palin laments fact that media responded more positively to the Wendy Davis filibuster than to Rafael Cruz's phony one. Go figure!

"Not fair, not fair, not fair!"

Yesterday Palin had her ghostwriter link to a Heritage Foundation attack on President Obama's UN speech, which most people seemed to think was quite good.

However this was the portion that caught my eye:

Instead of calling out the President's deceptive comments, his reliable lapdogs in the media turn their attention and ire on Ted Cruz for daring to stand up for the American people. Maybe if Ted had worn pretty pink running shoes he'd have gotten more respect from the same leftwing media that gushed over the Texan state senator who filibustered in the Texas legislature for the right to late term abortions of babies (a position at odds with the sentiment of the majority of Texans and Americans).

The next Governor of Texas.

Okay first off the Wendy Davis filibuster was NOT just about maintaining the right to an abortion for a woman who finds that her pregnancy is putting her life at risk or that her baby has a serious and possibly fatal birth defect. It was also about keeping family planning centers open, since the proposed bill would, and did, cause many of them to close their doors.

However the reason that the media is treating the Davis filibuster differently than the Cruz fake filibuster, is that she was actually filibustering a bill. Not only that she won! (Well temporarily at least.)

Here is what Think Progress said about the comparison:

Davis successfully delayed an anti-abortion bill that didn’t come up for a vote during Texas’ regular session, but that was brought up for consideration during a special legislation session that was specifically convened to give lawmakers more time to enact abortion restrictions. Davis’ 11-hour filibuster — during which she wasn’t allowed to sit down, take a sip of water, cede the floor, or stray off topic — ran out the clock on that special session. The Senate was not able to vote on the abortion bill in time. Davis’ efforts were backed by hundreds of grassroots protesters who rallied against the abortion restrictions for weeks.

Cruz, on the other hand, decided to launch a “speaking filibuster” against a continuing resolution that must be passed in order to keep the federal government operating. He’s standing in opposition to the funding bill because, after House Republicans added a provision to defund Obamacare, the Democratic-controlled Senate will surely strip that out of the final legislation. Cruz wants to stall the bill — and ultimately force the government to shut down next week — unless Democrats agree to defund Obamacare. But it’s not actually a real filibuster. The Senate will vote on the legislation on Wednesday afternoon regardless of how long Cruz speaks. And the effort doesn’t actually have that much support. Republican leadership has split with Cruz over this strategy, and recent polling has found that just seven percent of GOP voters actually favor defunding Obamacare in this way.

And ultimately, Cruz’s filibuster doesn’t have the same policy implications as Davis’ did. Davis was attempting to block a piece of legislation from imposing new restrictions on Texas’ abortion clinics and enacting a new ban on abortion procedures after 20 weeks.

Comparing the heroic actions of Wendy Davis to the Ted Cruz sham is insulting, and actually helps illustrate the fact that the Republicans don't have anybody on their side of the aisle that is her equal.

And it is also important to remember that Wendy Davis was chosen by her fellow Texas Democrats to represent them, and had the support of hundreds of grassroots supporters.

The next paid Fox News contributor

On the other hand Ted Cruz was representing Ted Cruz, and the ONLY people supporting him were those unaware of how the Senate works, and how bills become laws.

You know, like Sarah Palin.

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