Ted Cruz is like a rat on the Titanic. If he jumps ship, he’ll drown. If he stays on board, he’ll drown. This is a mess he got himself into, because he should not have run off to Cancun in the middle of a major storm in Texas and then, if he did, he absolutely should not have compounded it with transparent lies about his children. If he’s cornered, he did it to himself.
In all events, there is a homecoming party waiting for Teddums.
Protesters await Sen. Ted Cruz's arrival at his Texas home. pic.twitter.com/9eHPlUGBqC
— The Recount (@therecount) February 18, 2021
Teddums has pissed a lot of people off. The headline at the Fort-Worth Star-Telegram is: “While you’re freezing in your Texas home, Sen. Ted Cruz took off for Cancun. Really.”
And what is completely hilarious here, is a few months ago Ted Cruz was mad that the Mayor of Austin, Steve Adler, went to Cabo San Lucas during the pandemic. HAHA! Is that perfect hypocrisy or what?
As the website Uproxx.com noted, Cruz hasn’t been so kind and understanding when the proverbial shoe has been on the other foot. Say, when California was facing its own energy troubles or when Hurricane Sandy had ravaged the Northeast. Here’s the site’s reporting”
“Texas and neighboring states are in a rough patch right now, with a freak winter storm leaving millions without power, freezing in a part of the nation that hasn’t had weather this cold in decades, if not longer. One of Texas’ senators, Ted Cruz, has rightly called for disaster relief, and hopefully they get it quick. Two things, though: Not only was Cruz among a number of Republicans who made jokes last year when California suffered their own energy crisis, he was also one of the lawmakers who voted against the federal assistance after Hurricane Sandy in 2012.”
I wish he would resign, but I’m sure he won’t.
I think it’s notable that Cruz ran away to “third world” Mexico to escape infrastructure problems in his own home state of which he is a sitting Senator who supports building a wall to keep “those people” out.
The irony.
It would’ve been more hilarious if, when Cruz and his family arrived at the airport in Cancun, the airport authorities told him that, while his family was more than welcome to stay and enjoy all that Cancun and Mexico have to offer, his presence was not welcomed in the country and he would be detained in the airport (preferably under armed guard) until he could arrange a flight to take him back to the United States. As he would finally board the plane bound for home, the airport officials might ask him how it feels to be separated from his family.
A wonderful dream
Resign? He’s more use to the Devil exactly where he is. Eternal damnation can wait. Some people say.
As my Granny would say about that evil s.o.b. husband of hers “The lord doesn’t want him and the devil won’t have him.”
Am I a bad person for being amused that Cruz’s neighbors apparently don’t mind having a line of people out there shame protesting Cruz? It tells me his neighbors hate him too!
Apparently don’t mind? On what do you base that assumption? It is a bad faith argument to create a supposition and then draw a conclusion as if the supposition were rendered a fact by the mere action of stating it. The right operates in bad faith all day long. Let’s not do the same thing here.
People who have seen the emails say it was his wife’s idea, she invited friends, and no one stopped to think how it would look for the junior senator from TX to spend a long weekend in a resort in Mexico while most of his state is freezign to death. (They also didn’t bother to check with the kids’ school, which requires a week of quarantine and a clear virus test before they can go back – so that’s another week out for them.)
I expect anybody who was able left Texas. And I do not blame them. However, I understand that his action made for powerful political fodder for the outrage machine. He clearly did not think it through. No matter what he says, it will only rev up the outrage machine, especially the truth, because that opens him to charges of taking advantage of his monetary privileges. People also forget that Beto is in El Paso, a city that chose to not participate in the Texas, and also prepared after the heads-up provided by the 2011 storm. To be clear, this is not a criticism of Beto, just an observation that it is not like Beto proactively chose to suffer with the rest of Texas. There are so many more substantive criticisms of Cruz. It seems we should focus on those.
The other day, they interviewed a guy on the question of how does he feel about Ted’s trip to Mexico. His response was “he can stay there!” This is in Texas, where he was highly popular. The new people did also point out that he is no up for re-election for another 4 years. We will see how this plays out.
I still can’t believe he insisted he’s led around on a leash by his 10- and 12-year-old daughters when he is the original Mr. Patriarchal Authoritarian, who has in the past made it clear he believes father calls the shots and the kids are supposed to meekly obey. This has to be one of the sleaziest things he’s done, and given that he’s Ted Cruz, that’s saying a lot.
While I am majorly NOT an Al Franken fan, I have to give him credit for this quote which I’ve seen referred to a lot in the last few days: “Here’s the thing you have to understand about Ted Cruz. I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.”
This is so entertaining to me as the man is truly clueless. His fancy education is of no help because the man lacks any sense of empathy or concern.
Now, this also shows that Beto needs to run again as that race was pretty close. GO BETO – give it another shot.
Good one Joseph!