Texas junior senator Ted Cruz, who we refer to as Mr. Debate Club around here, just floored it in neutral again.

Conservative newcomer Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Tuesday missed the Judiciary Committee deadline for filing immigration bill amendments when he found himself answering Senate Majority Harry Reid, who called him a “schoolyard bully.”

“The Senator felt that it was important to go down [to the floor] and protect the minority’s rights” regarding the budget, a spokeswoman in Cruz’s office said.

Yep, Debate Club Ted was on the floor saying, “No, I am not a bully like Harry Reid said.  I’m just doing my job,” at the exact time he screwed up his job by not getting his amendments filed on time.  He missed the deadline while he was whining.

Cruz delivered his remarks at about 5 p.m., which happened to be the deadline for filing amendments to the immigration bill. The Judiciary Committee is set to mark up the bill Thursday.

Cruz’s office said they alerted Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., that they would be filing late because of the circumstances. Leahy extended Cruz the courtesy of filing later.

The “circumstances” being that widdle Ted had to take to the floor to whine that Harry Reid was making fun of him, which was far more important that getting his legislation filed on time.

Ted’s widdle peelin’s get hurt when everybody doesn’t recognize his genius.

Don’t you know that Leahy was giggling at Cruz for the damn irony of the thing.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.