Ted Cruz flew to Cancun with his family amid power crisis in Texas: source

Fox News ^ | 2/18/21 | Tyler Olsen

[JonPreston]

Sen. Ted Cruz flew to Cancun, Mexico, with his family this week as Texas dealt with a winter storm that left millions without power, Fox News has confirmed.

[hcmama]

It was incredibly tone deaf and stupid.

There is much that is good about Cruz, but he should forget ever running for POTUS. He has some of the worst political instincts I have ever seen.

[Shadylake]

If a dem this the fur would be flying and you know it.

[DoodleBob]

This type of tone-deaf behavior by leftists gets roasted on FR. Remember this - "President Obama’s Refusal to Interrupt Golf Vacation Amid Louisiana Flooding Stirs Anger"

But the same dopey behavior by one of "our guys" is...WELL...different. Oh, Cruz is just a Senator, he's not the President, and this is a state and not a federal issue.

Go figya.

[Texan]

Honestly, I expect him to resign over this.

Why? He's not in charge of the Texas power grid.

[RummyChick]

If there is truly nothing Cruz can do then why is he coming back?

And when he does come back and starts to take action like he should have already been doing....he is going to get blasted for waiting for so long

He screwed this one up.

Now he needs a crisis team to fix it.

[Shadylake]

Both sides are so deeply entrenched in ‘it’s ok when we do it’ it’s incredible. I know a leftist guy and he’s giving biden endless slack for basically ignoring this.

[Jrabbit]

Pathetic loser. Please stay wherever you are. Don’t pollute Texas with your filth.

[BiglyCommentary]

This is the madness you expect to see on some AOC fanboy site.

[who knows what evil?]

Your thin skin is causing you to leap to conclusions. I am no where NEAR New England. It is heading down to 15 in my neck of the woods (Tennessee), and I am not the slightest bit worried about it. You are the FIRST in my twenty-two years on FR to refer to me as a 'leftist puke'. Most would consider me to the right of Rush Limbaugh. ROTFLMAO!!! Even the Boy Scouts know to 'be prepared'.

Drink some decaf, and have a nice day. Temps will be back in the seventies in a few days.

[Boogieman]

Oh, and what are those millions going to do, vote for “Green Energy” Beto?

[RummyChick]

Lois Romano
@loisromano

Replying to @JakeSherman @tedcruz and @danpfeiffer
Statement to come: Senator Cruz was always flying back to Texas today. He merely accompanied his family for the night.

[mythenjoseph]

Tanks....storage tanks. What do home owners use to store gas in at their homes? What do fuel companies deliver gas to customers in? Texas took all federal grants tax breaks doing the solar/wind on a grand scale rather than requiring on site storage of back up fuels for generating plants that use gas. The fuel is taken straight from the ground and this delivery system failed because of the temperatures. IF....IF monies wasted on wind/solar were funneled to gas storage and insulating gas piping and high tech scrubbers for caol fired plants along withnew plants being built this would not have happened.

[setter]

More proof to the perception Republicans do not care about the little people.

Can’t believe he left during the worst period Texas has been struggling with.

[mmichaels1970]

He should have virtue signaled that he cares by showing a pic of icicles hanging from his beard...

Isn't it sad that Americans have sunk so low that a suggestion like this might actually be plausible? Or that "bad optics" now trumps common sense? And that many who share our beliefs now support playing along? Good use of sarcasm here, it doesn't stray far from the truth.

[dead]

But you sound so emotional and needy. You need big daddy government there to hold you and help through these hours without electricity. I hear it gets real dark at night in Texas, and you have no politician there to love you.

I'm sorry for your loss.

[Jrabbit]

Please, I beg you, stay the hell away from Texas.
Your super superior attitude is what we despise.
You and Cruz make a perfect pair.

[Stravinsky]

Not sure I believe that, but it will be interesting to see how it plays.

[sappy]

Democrats never resign. Cuomo, case in point. It may be bad optics to go to Cancun, but it’s pretty bad optics and morals to knowingly deceive the public about conduct resulting in thousands of deaths.

[DesertRhino]

That’s a simple minded point of view. When a disaster hits your state, a government caused disaster, as a Senator from that state you don’t fly away to a sunny beach vacation.

For one thing, he should be shining the light on green energy since they are about to pass the green new deal. Go stand in front of a broken windmill. Be ready to fight back hard with what you “learned”.

Has he shined any light on Biden’s failure to declare a disaster area?

Hell, he could go down to a warming center and serve food. You know, show he cares?

[Lurkinanloomin]

Not to mention that he was born in Canada to a Cuban father and is not a natural born citizen.