Much of the world, from Washington to Twitterverse, is furious with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the congressman who aimed defund the Affordable Care Act by shutting down the U.S. government. Here are three reasons why.

1.) Time-Wasting Filibuster

First, Cruz led a 21-hour-long "filibuster" that was no filibuster at all. Traditionally, a filibuster is an action that prevents a piece of legislation from proceeding -- such as Wendy Davis's infamous 13-hour speech that prevented a wide-sweeping Texas abortion bill from passing. 

But Cruz's "filibuster" was for naught, although it was almost the longest in history. Despite reading Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham and doing a Darth Vader imitation to pass the time, he ended by voting to proceed with the bill. His highly ineffectual and wasteful filibuster did nothing to stop the Senate from proceeding with a budget resolution.

(READ: Ted Cruz Filibusters Against Obamacare) 

2.) Let's shut down the government! Oh wait. 

Cruz has been advocating for the government shutdown, making idealized statements about the last shutdown such as: "If House Republicans hadn't stood up in 1995, we wouldn't have seen those kind of public policy results that benefit the country. [It was] because Republicans stood their ground."

But just how the government shutdown will end is still up in the air -- especially to Cruz. GOP senators pummeled Cruz at a closed-door meeting on Wednesday for failing to have a strategy to end the very government shutdown that he campaigned for. 

“It was very evident to everyone in the room that Cruz doesn’t have a strategy – he never had a strategy, and could never answer a question about what the end-game was,” said one senator who attended the meeting, according to Politico. 

(ALSO SEE: Ted Cruz Says He'll Still Be Paid Even If Government Shuts Down)

3.) Jumping Ships

And then. On Wednesday, the Senator tweeted this: 

"POTUS barricaded vets out of the WWII memorial to impose disastrous Obamacare on American people."

And this:

"Stand up for our vets."

These tweets, of course, come at a sensitive time. A time when the closing of the World War II memorial is a direct result of the government shutdown that Cruz advocated for. 

For more of Neon Tommy's coverage of the government shutdown, click here.

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