Comparing himself to Jesus, of course.
Ted Cruz delivered his remarks just after McConnell lined up the votes needed to add a 3-year extension of the controversial export finance bank to a highway funding bill.
“I told my staff that the Majority Leader looked me in the eye, and 54 Republicans in the eye [when he told them there was no deal to revive Ex-Im],” Cruz said. “I cannot believe he would tell a flat out lie.”
Cruz’s remarks were peppered with Biblical references. In the beginning of his rant, Cruz compared McConnell’s lie to Peter’s repeated denial of Christ.
“Like Saint Peter, he denied it three times,” Ted Cruz said.
So if Saint Peter = Mitch, who is Ted in his analogy?