about ted cruz s 21-hour speech. yes. 21 hours. and during ted cruz s 21-hour anti-obama care speech, he read a dr. seuss book. he said it is what he like tots read in the hospital when they are wasting our resources. and the group that actively persuaded congress to do what they could to defend obama care, the head of the tea party. welcome, amy. i don t know if you heard john avalon say on the air, that he said that extremists are running the government, and by that he means the tea party extremists. how do you respond? i have to disagree, because there is nothing extreme about it. the house democrats voted to delay the employer and individual mandate, and the house is the most direct form of