He’s Just An Embarrassing New York Times Headline In The Making
You write this down somewhere so I won’t have to say I told you so.
Ted Cruz is just three pounds of bombastic in a two pound sack.
I think I broke Facebook and Twitter yesterday because I watched the Hagel vote. Alone. If Juanita screams in an empty room, does anybody hear it? Well, I made damn sure they did on Facebook.
That chubby little Cruz jerk attempted to attack Chuck Hagel’s reputation by suggesting that maybe he was buddy buddy with terrorists. The truly weird part is that he kept saying, “I am not questioning his patriotism or his integrity,” and in the next sentence ask, “how do we know he didn’t have financial dealings with Iran? He might have.” Hell, he might as well have said “fellow traveler.”
There is something so promising about this guy being the next Joe McCarthy.
Write that down and keep an eye on him. He’s dangerous.
Don’t think anything still has a tail gunner
1You could do a full time blog just critiquing this pompass @ss. He is touted as being extremely intelligent. If that’s so, he is playing his Republican and Tea Party constituency like a video game. Cruz is saying what his people want to hear. We haven’t any idea what this guy really thinks. He is a dangerous politician.
2Someday, I’ll figure out how it came to pass, that people in Texas voted for a Canadian, with the last name of “Cruz”, who knows nada Espanol (o.k. so I don’t know how to do the tilde thing)… to represent half the people in this great State.
I keep reading comments about Hagel not “being prepared” when he was before Leahy’s committee. Well, hel**, cabinet nominees normally do not get “swift-boated” during confirmation hearings, for gosh sake. Not by people who are so new to the United States Senate, that the only thing they know for sure…….. maybe…..is how to find the Men’s Room….Especially not by people in their own miserable party. I don’t know that there’s a way to prepare for that.
McConnell better put Cruz on a shorter leash. Republicans have enough problems.
3I love it when someone who has never served in the military questions the patriotism of those that did.
4Actually, everytime one of these yahoos does something stupid and draws attention, I hear a little bell ring. Most likely, one or two or a dozen people in the Republican party (the good ones, that were Republicans before Republicans went mean and crazy) just decided they have had enough of that group.
5One would think that when a person started a new job that they would hang back until they got the lay of the land. Not this guy. He went in guns a blazing, like he’d been there 40 years and was king of the Senate.
What ya wanna bet that by the 4th. of July his tub mates will run the other way when they see him coming down the hall?
He doesn’t know that Orin Hatch and Ted Kennedy played tennis several times a week and were close friends for years. There are only so many tea party friends he can make.
6Eeeeeewwww. Ted reminds me of this guy I knew who sold “distressed” trailer homes. He was an arrognat snake who said he was doing “god’s work” when he sold very poor people trailers that were contaminated, infested or just plain dangerous—cause you know, they’d be homeless otherwise.
7OMG, Ted does look like McCarthy!! Has Joe been reincarnated?? Is Joe getting his marching orders from old Joe, who was advised by a Catholic priest that ‘red baiting’ would get him re-elected? There’s a funny smell in the halls of Congress these days.
8Cruz is an enigma wrapped in a contradiction. On the one hand, he was elected because he won the primary and the Democratic candidate didn’t really have a chance. On the other hand, he’s the kind of gut level crazy that Karl Rove thinks is killing the Republicans’ chances of winning the Senate. But Karl says those candidates are not good because they run poor campaigns and don’t raise enough money but Cruz managed it anyway. I feel like poor Norman when the people from the Enterprise told him that everything Harry Mudd says is a like and then Harry Mudd said “I am lying” and poor old Norman overheated and smoke came out of his ears. It’s just too weird.
9Unlike Cruz, McCarthy had followers.
10Cruz had voters. Idiots, but voters.
Cheryl, thanks for what you said about criticism of patriotism of those who served in the military by who never did. There’s a reason we have no contact with one of my husband’s brothers. I know we’re supposed to be civilized these days and prove we’re not the foamin-mouthed screamers on the Right, but if I’d been in the gallery for that Cruzblurt, I’m afraid I’d have made the rafters ring with a good old-fashioned rant until they dragged me away. (And since I learned a lot of new and useful vocabulary during my time in the Marines…they would have some cause for dragging me away.)
11Is there a factory in some secret, remote location in TX that is hatching these folks??
12Where in hell are they coming from- and why are there so many in Texas? Y’all need to launch a statewide hunt for this vermin hatchery!
I think “”Tail Gunner Ted” has a nice ring to it. It should evoke the image of the last Senate “Tail Gunner” and make the association nicely. I hope the moniker sticks. I’ll certainly keep using it.
13That man is simply creepy looking.
14Some of you folks are getting what you voted for!
15Read ALBION’S SEED. It’s about how four main cultures that moved from England to the Colonies and how even now their beliefs and cultures are very much the same. Texas has been influenced a lot by the poor immigrants from England.
16@Ronnie: Hon….. none of us voted “Cruz”.
17How do we know Ted Cruz did not exchange favorable agri-business votes for access to underaged, orphaned caprines for the purpose of unlawful carnal congress?
18Tail Gunner is too good for Ted. It was too good for McCarthy. I think Tail Bone Ted does a better job of putting him where he belongs.
19p.s. Maybe if Cruz’s hair weren’t so greasy looking it would help. Nah.
20Cruz is creepy. Time will tell if he is dangerous or just another buffoon like Louie Gomert or Darrell Issa.
I suspect he is the buffoon and will keep us entertained. His handlers will go to coffee and he’ll say something stupid that torpedoes any chance for reelection.
21When men behave like Cruz does,
221. they are overcompensating for their deficiencies (however you want to define that!);
2. they are pissed off cuz this is as far as they can go in politics inasmuch as the WH is most likely off limits for him unless there is another Constitutional amendment to arrive in time;
3. they have a chemical problem.
For him, he just may have hit the jackpot with all 3 of the above. Texas, you have my condolences for the longest list of nitwittery practitioners I have ever seen!
I think he kinda looks like Marcus Bachman, who is not gay.
23So, his first few days in Washington and he is all of a sudden an expert. Is that how it works? How dare he question the integrity or anything else of Mr. Hagel. Mr. Hagel has more integrity under his fingernails than Cruz will ever have in his lifetime. Cruz is simply a creepy human. I’ve only known one other creepy person in my 74 years, and that one is on death row in San Quentin. I guess there’s all kinds of creepy!
24Cruz got elected because a ton of people live in this state who would proudly pull the handle (check the box now) even if the ballot said Satan-R.
25Anne says:
Ted Cruz was born in Canada and came to the United States at the age of 4. When one of the Spanish language television networks wanted to hold a Cruz-Dewhurst debate, Dewhurst accepted and Cruz declined because he doesn’t speak Spanish. Although his father is from Cuba, his mother is from Delaware. And apparently they spoke only English at home.
David Dewhurst worked for the CIA in South America, so he was required to know Spanish.
Cruz’s smart-alec, bullying questioning reminds you of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was finally brought down during the 1950s Army-McCarthy hearings. The Army’s chief lawyer addressing McCarthy, declared “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you no sense of decency?”
In the end, the Senate voted to censure McCarthy by a 3 to 1 majority— thus removing the influence of the bully. Cruz is likely to lose influence much quicker than McCarthy did.
26Everyone of you should go to his “official Senate website” and email the SOB a piece of your mind. I did last night. Like I said after the election, “well, maybe Elizabeth Warren can be in charge of holding Ted Cruz’s choke chain.”
He got ripped to shreds this morning on Morning Joe…. several times. I fear, however, that TedNuts is following that ole adage about all publicity is good as long as they spell your name right. He’s a cretin…. and we are stuck with him for 6 years unless someone can figure out how to impeach him or something. Just the worst……
27How do we know that Ted doesn’t commit unnatural act with_________________? How do we know?
28Done, Mz Patty. This guy scares the crap outta me!
29Juanita Jean, since you are a hair care professional, I ask you: what color do you think Senator Cruz’ hair is underneath all that stuff he puts on it? My old dad once had an Olds 88 that left stains on the driveway that were that exact same color.
30Looking at Ted Cruz, I’m trying to decide who he reminds me of (other than McCarthy) could it be the penguin from Batman?
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