The Houston Chronicle on Friday published an editorial calling on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to resign for skipping town in favor of a Cancun getaway as millions of Texans suffered through power outages and a loss of running water amid unrelenting winter storm damage.
All of this schadenfreude is certainly keeping me warm.
I don’t want him to resign.
I want all his sins front and center come 2024, as the blue tide continues to engulf the state.
He won’t resign - no GOP member ever resigns anymore since they have no honor or decency. Honor and decency are lib traits and therefore to be mocked.
Shouldn’t Republicans be lauding him for recognizing that no true Texan has any need of the Federal Government in times of need?
Hey Wolfman Cruz! Try Hawaii for your next weekend getaway.
The Houston Chronicle ran out of f’s to give about Cruz quite awhile ago. So did most of the people of Houston.
Cruz could be caught along side the proverbial dead boy in his bed and not resign. He’d blame it on somebody else, say it wasn’t anything like it looked, etc. This is a much too cushy gig for him in terms of power and money to willingly give it up. “You can’t cancel me!” says Mr. Despicable.
Rafael “Ted” Cruz lied to help Trump steal an election. He then incited the deadly January 6 attempted putsch. That wasn’t enough to get him to resign.
I somehow doubt his Mexican adventure will change anything so long as Texas voters are dumb enough to elect this scumbag.
I can picture the ads against him when he runs again in 2024. “While Texans froze, Ted Cruz went to Cancun and enjoyed a frozen Mai Tai on the beach”.
Antifa made him do it.
Remember what the Mooch said about Steve Bannon? That’s the entire republican party now, and everyone is watching their colossally embarrassing display.
He’d probably blame it on AOC, Nancy Pelosi, and George Soros. I’m too tethered to sanity, truth, and linear fact to figure out the chain of causation, but that will be no problem for the party of QAnon.
Chronicle editors wrote, adding: “He got a ticket to ride and he don’t care.”
Side note: If you’ve ever wondered what the writing advice “Kill your darlings” was all about, it’s about this. Somebody was brainstorming things to say about getting a ticket, and thought about the Beatles song and thought ooh that works, that’s good. Whether we agree on that or not (I don’t) I can tell you without reading the editorial that it doesn’t fit and reads like it was shoehorned in. “Darlings” are little bits of writing schtick you think are really good but don’t fit. Don’t keep it anyway. Kill it. The piece and your readers will thank you.
Ted has to choose between President Ted Cruz and Senator Ted Cruz for 2024. State law does not permit him to appear on the ballot for both offices, and nobody in the Lege is going to lift a finger to change that law for him.
The short, punchy, bumpersticker ready slogan is: “Ted Fled”
Not original to me…just wanted to pass it on.
I watched the first twenty minutes.
The plot is a bit thin but character development is excellent.
“Nobody reads the failing Houston “Chromicle” any more. That leftist rag is on its last barrel of ink!!1!”
The beauty of what happened in Texas is it was National news, so it can be used against him for both offices.
Yesterday someone added to that: “Beto led”
It’d be a killer ad/bumper sticker.