Posted on 02/19/2021 9:51:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind
That's not quite true. When he realized it wasn't playing well that he bugged out off to Cancun, he lied. Then he lied again. Then he lied some more. That was wrong.
I’m still waiting for Kraken and “we saw it all, we got ‘em” and all of the other bologna.
What an absolutely indefensible scumbag for doing what he did. If that were a lib Dem Senator that did such a stupid thing that to his fellow suffering Texans as a public figure, his kids and even his dog why there’d be no end to it on FR. Why even bother with hypocrisy? I’m glad some here are not
And Cruz was virulently unwelcome on FR for years. Why the sudden protected status by some? Oh. I know why.
Fugadeddabouitt. He’s now the laughingstock of a nation. Except maybe not in a narrow hermetic bubble of some quarters of FR... but he reallt stepped in it. Cruzbots. Trumpbots. Whatever. Let’s agree to call a spade a spade. This article is just so much hand wringing and waste of ink on a foolish little man.
If that happens, the buck stops with Teddy. Not us!
RE: What an absolutely indefensible scumbag for doing what he did.
OK, let’s say he stays in Texas. What could he have done to restore power to those affected by the blackouts?
Yeah, don’t leave the area when your constituents are in the middle of a crisis. And also don’t have a dad that assassinated a president.
I enjoy Patriot.win. No more compromised than here. The fake accounts are pretty easy to pick out. The same idiots who were posting prior to January 6 that they had there guns packed, were kissing the wife and kids good by, and heading for DC to save the country. Sounded like FBI baiting people for meet ups.
He was on Senate recess.
He can go and not answer to any one especially the Free Republic peanut gallery, for the trip that had likely been scheduled a long time
RE: where is Cornyn the do nothing spinator from Texas?
OK, Let’s say Cornyn was home in Texas, what then? What can he do with the power outage?
Does that make you feel better to say that? Even if it is not true.
“And also don’t have a dad that assassinated a president.”
Doubling down on stupid, I see.
this was politically tone deaf. How you could do something like this and not know how it would be handled in the press and the terrible optics of it after being in politics this long is extraordinary...especially if you are a Republican.
Surprised people of their above average means would not have a back-up generator for their home.
This whole thing was asinine from the start.
And many here fell for it, sadly.
RE: this was politically tone deaf. How you could do something like this and not know how it would be handled in the press and the terrible optics of it
OK, so the problem is NOT what can be done, but optics.
STYLE, not SUBSTANCE.
Got it.
One of these scandals involves a senator skipping town amid a crisis — before flying back to Texas the next day — while the other involves a governor having ordered nursing homes to admit COVID-19-positive patients, exposing the population most vulnerable to the virus, and then covering up the scandal — and then threatening to “destroy” a fellow Democrat who spoke up about it.
Cruz later said he was just dropping off his daughter and her friends for a trip to Cancun because their school had been canceled. Even if Cruz had intended to spend a week in Mexico, there would be no comparison between these two scandals. Cruz’s “scandal” doesn’t have a body count, and it is unclear what difference he would have made had he stayed home.
Even so, the ABC News show World News Tonight spent four times — four times — as much airtime discussing Cruz’s scandal as the show did discussing Cuomo’s.
As Newsbusters’ Nicholas Fondacaro pointed out, World News Tonight covered Cuomo’s nursing home scandal for a total of 54 seconds following the news of the federal probe — after two days of refusing to mention the scandal at all. Yet the show found a full three minutes and 28 seconds to discuss Ted Cruz’s horrible optics.
Yes, a legacy media news outlet gave the Ted Cruz “scandal” nearly four times the coverage (3.85 times, to be precise) that it gave to Cuomo’s career-destroying scandal.
Lest we not forget in December 2018, Pelosi was vacationing in Hawaii during the government shutdown and refused to call the House back to Washington while Trump cancelled his vacation to stay in Washington to resolve shutdown.
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