Posted on 02/18/2021 3:01:21 PM PST by Bearshouse
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) responded to allegations that he flew to Cancun, Mexico, in the midst of record cold temperatures and snowfall in Texas—which has been besieged by power outages over the past several days.
Cruz appeared to confirm that he went to Cancun, saying that “with school canceled for the week, our girls asked to take a trip with friends. Wanting to be a good dad, I flew down with them last night and am flying back this afternoon.”
“My staff and I are in constant communication with state and local leaders to get to the bottom of what happened in Texas,” he said in a statement on Thursday, referring to the power outages and, in some cases, loss of water.
What hypocrites!
Where were they when newsome was out having dinner with friends for a celebration while locking down the rest of the state?
Or pelosi is out having her hair done?
Or that governor who ordered shelter in place and then his wife and kids went and flew to another state for a private family vacation?
The examples are endless of democrat hypocrisy.
Who in that state in the midst of the power outage didn’t go somewhere else if they could?
Cruz is going to have any real involvement in this for a few months at the minimum, if any at all.
Not a single person died because he went to Cancun. But I agree with you. It’s about optics, especially for Republicans and conservatives. The sooner our side accepts that optics are important the less damage our side will self inflict.
It's not like he jetted off on a lobbyist's private plane and stayed at an exclusive resort all on their dime. Even Senators get breaks!
We’ve lost Texas or are close to losing ut.
Rats are pulling the ole Tammany Hall playbook shit, even AOC has managed to garner praise for raising a million bucks
Ted’s pokey to Mexico was the final in this coffin
Actually, I saw a headline - something like "While Cruz is in Cancun, Beto is handing out supplies" or some such blather. I didn't even bother to read it.
I quite agree with you.
POTUS always had simple, logical solutions to everything he touched.
I can’t imagine that he would not expeditiously get to the bottom of the finger- pointing, separate the truth from fiction, about what exactly went wrong in Texas, and send disaster funds to help kick off a resolution to the cause(s).
It sounded to me like Gov. Abbott was Red Hot to tick off statutes requiring annual winterization and disaster preparation standards that practically guarantee that Energy needs in Texas won’t be failing the state say time soon.
Trump could swing by Texas and whip that issue all over the state, until it turned into oil, and the people will force that Legislature to get it done. 🤠
I'm not exercised about it.
The Dems will tie this to him forever, however.
GOPers are always held to a much higher standard.
Nonsense. Texans aren’t going to suddenly vote for queers and steers because Cruz went to Cancun 2 years before his re-election campaign.
Didn’t say Cruz’s trip was the sole reason I said it was the final nail in the coffin from the Texas Republicans whom bumbled all of this Texas was already trending purple now its blue the Democrats outsmarted them with ole Tammany trickery .
I find it fascinating that a lot of conservatives are buying into the hole media crisis around a storm. Cruz failed.. There are numerous times in the Northeast there are people without power for weeks. Texas needs to find its collective ball sack and quit trying to blame Ted for failed policies, choices and mother nature doing what it does..
If I was Cruz I'd send an aide or bodyguard to Cancun with the family and stay in TX & be visible so as not to give the Dems an easy target.
At least half of votes cast are based on emotion and appearances, not logic.
what if aides and bodyguards had their own families to take care of as well?...
OK, what did you want Ted Cruz to do?
I had to go to the end of this thread to find a post that reflects reality. Who the hell turned this board over to the damned liberals?
This is exactly right. What was the issue(s)/criticism with Biden or his Administration just before this article appeared? Does anyone remember? This is what THEY (liberals and MSM) do very well.
Difficult to watch, as one must also endure the pompous nature and sheer rudeness of Donahue.
I forgot what an unadulterated ass Donahue was...and at the time I was too young, self absorbed and uninformed to realize. So grateful I eventually “woke up” (God now you can’t even use THAT phrase w/o sounding like a lib)
Thank you for posting this most joyful video....joyful because we get to see the Master tame one of the nastiest “commentators “ and expose the left to their smug, condescending faces live and in person. God I miss him.
Ted gave his next dem opponent plenty of ammo.
Exactly. Piling on in this case is sour grapes. I was thinking about my state and concluded that a U.S. senator staying home during a disaster makes no difference at all. Now a STATE senator is different, in case there needs to be am emergency session or some such, he/she needs to stay home.
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