What new nickname is Cruz going to come out of this situation with? “Cancun Cruz” has a certain ring to it.
I’ve heard both “Flyin’ Ted” (a play on the “Lyin’ Ted” nickname which Trump had for him), and “Fled Cruz.”
F*Lyin’ Cancunt?
Ted Cancruz?
I think that being a good dad in his situation (if any of his story is true) would be to tell his girls, “Sorry, girls, I know you would like me to take you to Cancun, but I’m a Senator, and I have responsibilities to the people who elected me. We can go to Cancun another time.”
A good dad teaches his kids that sometimes you have to do the responsible thing, even if it’s uncomfortable and no fun.
It wasn’t his daughters who wanted to go. It was his wife. But it sounded better to throw the kids under the bus than the wife.
Of course, your point is valid in either case.
Maybe the daughters did want to go? They get the next week off from their private school too because they have to quarantine.
/s
“Ted Cruz: The Legend of Zerro”
A meme shows Rafael wearing a sombrero on the front page of The Dallas Morning News . Caption:
TED COSSES MEXICAN BORDER IN HOPES OF BETTER LIFE FOR FAMILY
Here’s the thing that really gets me.
First of all, a year into COVID, there are still people who think taking trips is a good idea? (On the other hand, they’re Republicans - probably never even gave it a second thought.)
Second, when my kids wanted to go on a trip with friends, we’d drive up the road and spend the weekend at Great Wolf Lodge so they could play on the waterslides. How elitist do you have to be to go jetting off to a fucking foreign country, just 'cuz the girls asked?
It wasn’t the daughters that wanted to go. It was his wife.
Aaaand the folks who voted him in last time are just as likely to vote him in again. Republicans are so predictable.
If there was a market for them, we should probably sell them off before they lose anymore value.
Republicans have no values.
This is where plutocracy culture always eventually comes back to bite wealthy Republicans in the ass. The prestige of their public persona is largely based on projecting an image of being “successful”, having a lot of material wealth and luxury. Their social circles expect it, and their voters admire it as a manifestation of authority and power.
And then at some point they cross the perceptual line from “impressive high-status high achiever” to “shockingly out-of-touch effete aristocrat” without realizing that they’ve crossed it. So a GW Bush marvels at an ordinary supermarket scanner, or a Barbara Bush remarks that sheltering disaster evacuees in a sports stadium “is working out very well for them” because they “were underprivileged anyway”, or a Mrs. Steve Mnuchin tags all her designer labels in a photo of herself in a taxpayer-funded trip, or a Ted Cruz jets off to Cancun with his family while constituents are freezing to death in a catastrophic systems failure. And they’re caught totally off-guard when it turns out that the “peasants” roundly mock them for it.
Of course, there are also plenty of wealthy Democrats living lavish fat-cat lifestyles. But somehow, they seem to have on average more common sense about when not to rub the public’s nose in it.
look closer…
and if we really zoom in …
Lyin’ Ted thought it would have been irresponsible to have Snowflake ride in a carrier on top of the plane.
The sad truth is that Cruz is unlikely to suffer any real repercussions over this. He has the advantage of time — his Senate re-election and inevitable Presidential bid are both four years away, which is an eternity in politics. He’s obviously not going to resign, and this isn’t the kind of scandal that’s going to cause political allies and donors to flee from him. He’ll keep his head down for a while and people will forget about it. Sure his opponents will bring it up in whatever race he’s running in 2024, but it’ll be old news and he’ll have some polished line of response by then.
You left out my personal favorite. When Hurricane Ike caused devastation in parts of Texas, then Governor Rick Perry spoke about the many people living in temporary shelters. He pointed out that he too was living in temporary quarters. At the time, the Governor’s Mansion was being renovated as well as being repaired from a fire. The state rented a lavish mansion is western central Austin for the governor. To him, that must have been just like sleeping on a high school gym floor. Poor guy.
Of course, he suffered no consequences for this. Eventually, some idiot made him US Secretary of Energy.