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Sen. Ted Cruz returning from Cancun during Texas power crisis
NY Post ^ | February 18, 2021 | 1:37pm | Updated | Ebony Bowden

Posted on 02/18/2021 11:16:45 AM PST by conservative98

WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz flew home from Mexico Thursday, amid outrage over his trip during a crisis-level storm in Texas — explaining he was only chaperoning his daughters and their friends on the flight.

The Republican lawmaker was seen getting back on a plane to the US on Thursday afternoon and issued a statement explaining that was not on a vacation himself, but was accompanying his daughters on a flight to theirs.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cancun; congress; cruz; flyinted; hotwater; mexico; mountathos; texas; walkofshame
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To: Shadylake

“ This is ongoing right now. Anyone regardless of party will look awful for screwing up like this in the middle of a fairly major disaster.”

Nope. Biden hasn’t said Jack. This as bad as Katrina. Wait till the
Aftermath next week. The death from this will be amazing.


21 posted on 02/18/2021 11:34:05 AM PST by stanne
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To: Da Coyote

Ted, say it aint so! You should know better! Why? Even if you had a good reason the Optics are terrible and it will give your enemies things to tar you with. Shows really bad judgement on your part Senator! Hunker down in your mansion or visit Trump in Florida but don’t go out of the country! A Mistake that can wreck a career!


22 posted on 02/18/2021 11:34:41 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade ( ALWAYS GO FORWARD AND NEVER GO BACK.)
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To: TexasGurl24
The MEDIA did not blame the children for a vacation in Mexico... Want to really dig into ‘simple-minded’?
23 posted on 02/18/2021 11:34:44 AM PST by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: JennysCool
Anyone who has worked in politics (even at the city council level) understands what "optics" is.

It means you do things because they make you look good, and you don't do things that make you look bad.

Conservatives who don't get this don't last long in politics.

Just the facts--whether you like them or not.

"We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality."

Words to live by--by Ayn Rand (who hated politics--and this was one of the reasons...)
24 posted on 02/18/2021 11:34:49 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: conservative98
He forgot that appearing to care is far more important than actually caring.
25 posted on 02/18/2021 11:34:53 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Just mythoughts

As a Jew I also go back to Never Forget! Cruz is a pol and will bend with the MSM bad a** gas as he deems fit to further his political Employment!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz44wKKQJh0


26 posted on 02/18/2021 11:35:26 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: conservative98

Uh huh.....


27 posted on 02/18/2021 11:36:41 AM PST by silverleaf (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: conservative98

Why? Another family to place more demand on an already overly burdened infrastructure. Stay away and work remotely. Who cares what others think.


28 posted on 02/18/2021 11:36:53 AM PST by CodeJockey (Dum Spiro, Pugno)
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To: stanne

Interesting that no one is blaming Biden for his lack of concern. I think Cruz ought to be in Texas demanding a federal response.


29 posted on 02/18/2021 11:38:47 AM PST by Stormy_MS1 (CHINA VIRUS!!)
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To: conservative98

So I suppose nobody who is critical of his trip EVER goes south to escape the winter weather? And just what would he be able to do relative to this power crisis? He can’t fix it, can’t generate power, doesn’t have a crap load of generators laying around and can’t declare a disaster. I don’t get the outrage. Especially from conservatives to want to jump on the criticism train because it might give some lefty a little ammo. Why don’t you defend him? He can’t do a damned thing about the problems with power in texas.


30 posted on 02/18/2021 11:38:55 AM PST by msrngtp2002 (Just my opinion.)
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To: conservative98

Hey! Don’t sound like a bunch of Dems. The senator can go where he wants to.


31 posted on 02/18/2021 11:40:03 AM PST by jch10
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To: conservative98

Cruz is probably meeting surreptiously with leadres of Hondouras and Guatamala to plot a way forwasd to thwart the AntiAmericans in the Pelosi/Biden regime


32 posted on 02/18/2021 11:40:50 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
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To: Stormy_MS1

“ Interesting that no one is blaming Biden for his lack of concern. I think Cruz ought to be in Texas demanding a federal response.“

Biden is off the hook because he is a democrat. As people even on FR say all politicians are held to equal standards in a disaster

No

However ted Cruz is and always has been tone deaf. The optics on this are ridiculous and now he’s blaming his daughters.

Worse than that he looks like crap. His fashion sense is the worst thing of all of this. And I say that in my 60deg house power just on after four days


33 posted on 02/18/2021 11:45:52 AM PST by stanne
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To: bert

Right, he was probably down there working on the next attempt to take out AOC.


34 posted on 02/18/2021 11:46:05 AM PST by bhive
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To: BobL

“Agree - this goes down as maybe the DUMBEST political move that I’ve ever seen...and his recovery attempt by jetting straight home won’t even make news beyond conservative circles.”

I thought Pelosi inviting everyone to come hang out in Chinatown during COVID was the winner of the all-time political FUAmerica award. Second place went to Cuomo for killing thousands of people while a military medical ship was docked and the Javits Center turned into an infirmary.

Harris’s support for BLM is tied for second.


35 posted on 02/18/2021 11:47:08 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Keep the Faith. Everything happens for a reason.)
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To: Ponce de Leon County

WTF! His wife can’t “chaperone” the little elite kids throwing a tantrum to go on a vaycay? Because their power was out? And no school? Not only is he a cowardly back stabber to Trump....he’s a damn liar 🤬


36 posted on 02/18/2021 11:47:13 AM PST by Jrabbit
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To: stanne

Lots of crowding, people leaving hospitals. I’m listening to a local police scanner and it’s insane. 4-8 hour waits to get water stopped if pipes burst. People crapping in bags all over. The floods that’ll be here will probably be the worst part of it. I’m praying my washing machine in the garage doesn’t bust open, the knobs were frozen stiff when I left and couldn’t shut one off.


37 posted on 02/18/2021 11:48:30 AM PST by Shadylake
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To: EQAndyBuzz

All good and fine, but Republicans couldn’t figure out how to capitalize on Democrat screw-ups when they’re handed them on a silver platter.

Democrats...far smarter than us, as Cruz is about to find out.


38 posted on 02/18/2021 11:48:31 AM PST by BobL
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To: bhive

Well, we don’t what but the Senate is in recess and Cancun is a great place to meet foreign representatives on the QT

This thread is an exercise in anti cruz stupidity


39 posted on 02/18/2021 11:48:44 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
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To: stanne

Where are all the Republicans in Texas? Why aren’t they stomping up and down and Biden and Harris about a lack of Federal response?


40 posted on 02/18/2021 11:48:52 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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