Now it's Ted Cruz who is poll dancing

One of the biggest problems with the right is that they are reality deniers.  They go through intellectual contortions that are far less graceful than those in our illustration, but which are both pathetic and every bit as deliberately exploitative.  Pole dancers sell a sexual fantasy; the right tries to sell an ideological fantasy.

We saw it with Mitt Romney, who, along with his supporters, believed that he was winning by a landslide when he was losing...........right up to when he lost the election, badly.

Now we see the same thing by the reality denier, Ted Cruz, who is trying to promote the fiction that Obamacare is costing jobs, and other false claims; blah blah blah blah blah.

Reality is biting Ted Cruz in the behind, along with the nutjob extremists who share his positions - on Obamacare, on government size, on the shutdown, on the debt ceiling.

Rachel Maddow nails it:

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