A Day Late and a Dollar Short
Well, thanks a bunch Houston Chronicle. And if I can pull my tongue out of my cheek, I’ll tell you why your big ole pile of festering idiocy makes you look even dumber than you suspect.
Click little one to get big one.
Back at election time, you endorsed Ted Cruz and now you’re sorry that you did. Well, isn’t that special?
First off, by endorsing Ted Cruz you endorsed a man whose supporters can’t read. Well, maybe they can read the Drudge Report but even at that their computer screens are covered in Cheetos smudge marks because they have to point at the words as they read them. So what’s the point of endorsing a man in the damn newspaper when you’re just gonna piss off people who can, indeed, read.
Second off, hollering whoa way past the saloon door leaves you and your horse looking mighty dumb. Did you just now notice that Ted Cruz is a box of crayons short of a full fledged kindergarten class? You just came around to that way of thinking yesterday? Where the hell have you been?
And on the freekin’ front page you have the unmitigated dumbassery to ask, “Coup for Cruz, At What Cost?” Oh, I dunno, the United States of America? Go find whoever writes things for your newspaper and fire them. Right now. Before they break something else.
Third off, by endorsing Cruz you have caused David Dewhurst to move from moderate to raging tea party drooler. Well done. Why didn’t you just go get a stick and beat all the moderates into submission?
Houston Chronicle, I hate to say I told you so, but dammit.
Thanks to Bubba for the heads up when he screamed at the newspaper this morning.
JJ, your post needs to be sent in as a letter to the Editor. This is brilliant.
1Hmmm! Kinda the same thing happened here about 4 years ago when Terry McAuliffe first ran for guv and the papers were just not that pleased with him. Well, they got Repub McConnell instead and now they are are doing the political backstroke as more and more headlines appear about McC’s “donors” and how they funneled the $$ to him. He gave a chunk of it back but he refuses to have anything to do with the creation of an ethics panel, which to him must sound like “death panel”. His Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli (Cooch), also a Repub, sounds and behaves like the heir apparent to those guys who ran the Salem witch trials a couple of hundred years ago. Despite being the AG for the state, he also made himself Gynocologist In Chief with the legislation that he wanted (mandatory vaginal unltra sounds, banning all birth control, personhood amendment, etc). Cooch, like Ricky-bicky Santorum, has 7 kids, home schools them for years before sending them to Catholic schools cuz I guess the elementary education provided by said schools is worthless. Cooch is a high school graduate of Gonzago, a Jesuit High School for boys located in Washington, D.C. He also got caught with $$ from various highly questionable donors with deep pockets and religious man of faith that he is, he has openly refused to return any of the dough. McConnell’s lite guv wanted to run for the top slot but he got skunked by”Cooch” and some of the top party members in a back door back room deal which scrubbed him from the ticket and no one really knows why except with all the revelations of Cooch’s donors, A is starting to look like it really is linked to B. The Washington Post today carried a huge piece backing McAuliffe. McAuliffe is ahead on $$ and in the polls. If Virginia does turn blue, Texas Repubs had better take themselves some pills to turn off the shakes!
2I disagree with their contention that this is good for Ted. I believe that this is a career killer because of what it does for the Democrats.
The Junior Senator from Canada has been the best thing to happen to the Democratic party since Joe McCarthy. He personifies dysfunction and extremism. The more his face is seen the better off we are.
3Like a lot of people who voted for Ted Cruz, it was because of the “z” in his last name. The Comical endorsed him for the same reason. Figured they could sell some newspapers to people whose names end in “z”.
They didn’t endorse a person, they endorsed a name.
Now, they are having buyer’s remorse? They didn’t vet him at all. If they had, they would have known that he wasn’t the second coming of Kaye Bailey Hutcheson. His whole family is three bricks short of a full load.
4I read your post right after I read this:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/today-in-the-reign-of-morons-101613#comments
I can’t say either made me smile, but both were wonderful to read.
5This is good for Cruz in the same sense that winning a prison beauty contest would be good.
6I’ve gotten to the point that Cruz’s smug mug gives me the same willies that Bush the Younger used to do. I go by so fast it leaves smoking tire tracks on the computer screen.
7You know they say that Success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan? Well, that goes double for voters. The Ted Cruz who they helped elect had a thousand, thousand, supporters but retroactively the Ted Cruz who nearly cut off the country’s fingers slamming the car door on them? They have never heard of the guy.
8Sioux City Journal.the largest/closest daily paper to moi in NW egads ioway,reluctantly endorsed “Cantaloupe Calves” King and suggested he tone down his stoopidity. Well King has gotten worse so we will see if the SCJ endorses this doofuss next time. Heard yesterday that more schools are eliminating “busy time”(i.e. crayons) to spend more time teaching to the tests the wee ones are required to pass to pass. Hope elementary kids pool their lunch monies and hire their own lobbyists before it is too late. In solidarity with children.
9I am surprised to see Cruz crash this morning!
10But I am over the moon – see what the Palin endorsement does for him!
11I was honest to God eating Cheetos when I read this post. I take exception to your clever little analogy. The more accurate way to identify a Ted Cruz supporter is to check his computer after he has used Word. There will be white-out all over the screen. Now actions have consequences. And guess what. When you endorse Ted Cruz for senate you might end up with Ted Cruz in the senate. You were too kind to those whining idiots. The Chronicle editorial board can’t get off with a simple mea culpa. Their endorsement is part of the reason we’re in the mess we are in. So, even by their own admission, Houston Chronicle endorsements should be taken with a grain of salt.
12I thought electing a Cuban-Canadian to the Senate, one who was a known to be a certifiable whack job was pretty extreme, even for Texas.
The longer this goes on and the more I see of him, the less I understand. Did no one in the entire state look at the hypocrisy and opportunism factor’s of this guy and think “uh, not a good idea”? The guy who ‘officially’ put the last shovel full of dirt on Orly Taitz’s career didn’t seem like he’d be a future problem? A Teahaddist with a Goldman Sach’s executive for a wife who has a golden $40 thousand dollar healthcare coverage policy that HE is included on, but he wants to take away Obamacare from people who need it.
This guy:
“The elite academic circles that Cruz was now traveling in began to rub off. As a law student at Harvard, he refused to study with anyone who hadn’t been an undergrad at Harvard, Princeton, or Yale. Says Damon Watson, one of Cruz’s law-school roommates: “He said he didn’t want anybody from ‘minor Ivies’ like Penn or Brown.”
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/09/23/ted_cruz_princeton_conceit_sad_sad_sad_stuff.html
There are a lot of people in Texas. How did this happen?
13The Statue of Liberty graphic is priceless!
14I hate to say it but this morning when I looked at the front page of the STATESMAN, formerly the most liberal paper in Texas, I had to look again and make sure I wasn’t reading THE ONION. Good grief, guys.
15@ Ralph Wiggam, I should know by now to put my coffee down before I read your comments, I laughed so hard I snorted coffee! I know by now not to have anything in my mouth when I read JJ!
I would add however, “Ted Cruz is a box of crayons short of a full fledged kindergarten class,” and Boehner ate the last orange crayon.
Buyers remorse indeed! What can I say, Caveat Emptor!
16Too little, too late. Thanks for absolutely nothing, Chronicle.
17I can hardly get past Bubba screaming like a little girl this morning!!
Hilarious!!
18Remember that Molly Ivins referred to that newspaper as “The Crock”. Pretty much covers it.
19My relatives from all over the country are asking me how I could inflict this lunatic on them! I didn’t vote for him and he sure as hell doesn’t represent me.
In the too little, too late column also…some TP relatives (marriage only) are questioning their beliefs as they think things are going a little too far. Amazing turnaround when it’s their retirement checks that are affected!
20Wherever there is a camera or a microphone within forty miles of him, Cruz will be in front of it flapping his jaws. The only good thing about that is I expect more and more people– not the fanatics– will get sick and tired of him faster.
VA’s rwnj Cuccinelli– I recently learned that I was pronouncing it wrong, but I still think Kookinelli fits him.
21… and the Chronicle’s reply:
http://blog.chron.com/chronopinion/2013/10/did-we-un-endorse-ted-cruz-no/
22@Dennis– CYA strikes again, it seems that talking out of two sides of their mouth is an ongoing condition…
23Thanks again to all of JJ’s clients, and thanks to JJ for the excellent graphic!
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