Ted Cruz can’t fart without being sanctimonious about it.
As it stands, while President Obama has been in Cuba and Argentina, word came out this morning that our Spec-Ops forces have taken out the No. 2 ISIS commander in Syria. So why exactly did the President need to cancel his trip to come home to the US again?
As usual, they underestimate our Commander-in-Chief on all matters of terrorism. The President knows better than most how to address these issues and go after the perpetrators of these crimes. Unlike Cruz, he doesn’t need to posture for the cameras.
Osama bin Laden anyone? How quickly Cruz and his ilk tend to forget.
The comment system here is still a mess. I just clicked on another post and I’m signed in here and on the homepage, but not signed in there. When I click on “Sign In to Comment” I get a white page with a spinner that spins endlessly.
I wonder how many thousands and thousands of dollars TPM has spent on a fab home made comment system that didn’t work at the beginning after months of no comments while someone was inventing it. Remember when it had two tiers of comments, the first one displaying a couple of comments and the rest just spinners or please waits or whatever, and a second tier with a different name for no reason, plus a lot of other strangeness. Eventually it was more or less straightened out except for the weird repetition of everything over there on the right for no reason.
Then recently the whole thing went in the toilet, saying you can’t post an identical comment after not even posting a comment for weeks but then posting it anyway etc. Then it half came back and here we are.
I wonder how much TPM could have saved by buying something off the shelf that actually makes sense and works.
No Drama Obama gets 'er done, while Ted just bloviates. I think we have the best President in decades right now. Hillary is going to have some really big shoes to fill.
We have that problem since yesterday. Reloading a couple of times (sometimes more) often gets you logged back on. Clearing the cache also helps. Darr reported the problem to Josh… hopefully they will resolve it as soon as… we dont’ know when!
Try reloading the comments page several times. That seems to work for me.
cruz is such a dolt. the last thing that belgium needs is to have a potus visit and all the attending extra security requirements while the are hunting terrorists. ted, you are just not all that smart.
Comedy: The Great Truth Teller!
That was my reaction too.
And the thing is, Ted isn’t dumb. He knows that to actually do what he’s suggesting – send the President to Brussels right now – would be stupid, unhelpful, and the last thing the Belgians would want to deal with right now.
He’s just grandstanding for cheap political points, trying to compete with Trump for the Hate Vote. But Trump’s got the Hate Vote pretty well sewed up.
And that’s kind of Cruz’s problem in a nutshell – he only has one move, which is to go further to the right than everyone else in the field. But with Trump promising to ban Muslim immigration (“temporarily”), require Muslims to “register” with the government, torture suspects, kill the families of terrorists, ban refugees, build a giant wall on the Mexican border, etc., etc…there just isn’t any space to the right of Trump on immigration, terrorism, and general xenophobia, unless Cruz wants to actually slap on a swastika and grow a little mustache.
9/11, WMD, arming & funding what is now Al-Queda, Mission Accomplished…I don’t allow conservatives to lecture me on anything regarding foreign affairs. In fact I’m very dismissive, and arrogant about it. I suggest my fellow TPMers try it out. Nothing gets under a conservatives skin like refusing to be deferential.
When Count Dracula vomits, you can tell by the smell his stomach secretes Sanctimony Acid.
One more thing I noticed – clicking “Full Discussion” at the bottom of articles (in red) instead of “## comments” (in gray) always keeps me logged on so far.
They bitch about Castro’s torture then talk about how we need to torture and don’t even see the contradiction.
…I thought RickSantorum had already cornered the sanctimonium…until *FOG Cruz slunk onto the scene.
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Yeah but it is their thing, isn’t it? Not just Cruz, I mean the entire spectrum of the GOP often does this. Do you remember McCain just couldn’t contain his urge to grandstand it in the 2008 campaign when Gustav was threatening the Gulf Coast and emergency professionals were at all levels trying to keep people safe? Not to mention “I suspend my campaign to save the US economy.”
It’s something they so often do because they have no real ideas to offer (cue, “Patrol Muslim neighborhoods!”).
Are we sure he knows that? Poor Ted is a walking illustration of the mentally disabling effects of internalized religious dogma. [1]
[1] Y’know–aside from having more daddy issues than a gay porn magazine.
And of course whenever Obama does go to the site of some attack or disaster or shooting, he’s making it all about him. Because feckless. Or tyrannical, I’m never sure which.
You’re asterisking out ass in jackass? Really?
The last two words of this headline are superfluous. Ted Cruz is a “sanctimonious jackass” BY NATURE. He just can’t help himself.