Maybe it’s just the weight of self-loathing that’s made him that way. Ever since the 2016 election, when he signed on as a loyalist behind the campaign of a man who’d slandered both his wife and his father, Cruz has been reeling through politics like a goat who’s gotten into the absinthe.
Most of the time, this is a short route back into the loving arms of the private sector. This is the move of a politician who’s begun to feel that he’s completely insulated from political consequence. Any old-school pol worth his honorarium would have known that flying to the beach in Mexico while your constituents are burning the chifforobe to stay warm is an optic to avoid at all costs. This little drama gives us yet another window into the fact that successful mendacity has come so easily to a generation of conservative politicians that they don’t develop the basic involuntary reflexes of the craft. If he were an average citizen, the DEA would be camped out in his den when he got home. An unnamed Republican appeared to put an end to the speculation Thursday morning, telling Fox News that the allegations are true and commenting: “The photos speak for themselves.”īusted, Cruz came back to Texas in less than a day. From The Daily Beast : The senator’s fellow travelers seemed to out his visit on Wednesday evening by posting several snaps of him inside an airport and then, later, on a plane.
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And, on Thursday, in a political move so maladroit that it’s amazing that Willard Romney didn’t think of it in 2012, Cruz got caught jetting to Cancun while Texas spent a full week as a Swanson’s TV dinner.
(I keep telling these birds that snark is best left to the experts.) The other day, when a few hundred people called Cruz out for having mocked California last summer as that state went through blackout hell, he responded with a blasé “My Bad” on the electric Twitter machine. For a couple of months now, he has taken to social media as a groaningly unfunny- but unambiguously weird-Twitter troll. Not to put too fine a point on it, but I think the Tailgunner is cracking up a bit. Tailgunner Ted Cruz, Republican senator from Texas, is starting to make me wonder whether or not he might have been better off taking the world-famous underwater welding course at San Jacinto Junior College than he was going to Princeton and then Harvard Law School. Capitol Police officials and the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms have encouraged lawmakers and their staff to be conscious of potential threats and to consider advising law enforcement about their travel at airports and other transportation hubs.I’m starting to doubt the benefits of an Ivy League education. Silva could not say whether such requests are typical for Cruz’s travel or whether his staff has made a similar request for his return flight.
More: Ted Cruz in Cancun? Beto O'Rourke aids seniors during blackout. She said officers “monitored his movements” while Cruz was at the airport.
In Austin, some hospitals faced a loss in water pressure and in some cases, heat.Ĭruz's office declined to answer specific questions about the family vacation, but his staff reached out to the Houston Police Department on Wednesday afternoon to say the senator would be arriving at the airport, according to department spokeswoman Jodi Silva. Texas officials ordered 7 million people - one-quarter of the population of the nation’s second-largest state - to boil tap water before drinking the water, after days of record low temperatures that damaged infrastructure and froze pipes.
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