As Senator Ted Cruz endured the torments of public scorn on Thursday—outed by fellow passengers on his way to a warm Cancun vacation, as millions of fellow Texans suffered from freezing temperatures and a catastrophic electricity failure—I had a sudden uncomfortable feeling in the pit of my stomach: There but for the grace of God go I. Or at least someone I used to work for.
“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it,” Mark Twain said. Voters, though, won’t excuse politicians who throw their hands up—or, worse, turn tail when disaster strikes. Weather might be the least controllable force a politician faces, but it comes with a severe price for mishandling its consequences. And it’s not clear that Cruz, despite a quick return home, will be able to dig himself out.
More recently, think of Donald Trump throwing paper towels at a hurricane-ravaged crowd in Puerto Rico, or blaming the California wildfires on inept forest management, and puzzling the president of Finland by his references to “raking.” Trump’s die-hard supporters didn’t see any of it as gaffes, but add to that his persistent minimizing of another disaster, the Covid-19 pandemic, and you have a pattern of indifference to suffering that, his pollsters say, ultimately cost him reelection.
In his reelection, Lindsay cut an ad that began: “I guessed wrong about the weather before the city’s biggest snowstorm. And that was a mistake.” It may not have been much; but voters wanted to hear this handsome Manhattan WASP scrape a little before the citizens of the outer boroughs. By contrast, Chicago Mayor Bilandic never apologized for the chaos that engulfed his city, at one point saying that a return to 70 percent efficiency was good enough.
Lol you have several Ted Cruz stories, but where was this attention for Cuomo and Hunter Biden....ill wait
The base or cult and the Socialism. The GOP be in Corporate Socialism at the expense of the middle and poverty. Shame we even have a poverty class in country where the owner of Amazon, from what I read, earns $93 billion/year.
I can’t believe his peloton actually powered the whole state.
Really WTF can he do to better the situation. Go on vacation and enjoy.
Cruz see sunshine and Cuomo sees dead bodies!
As long as Ted is on the ballot with and R next to his name, Texans will vote for him again.
SenTedCruz The Jan 6 Insurrection should have been sufficient to take down Cruz.
Ted Cruz is a National Disaster but in this case there shouldn't be any relief funds for him.... well maybe throw him some Bounty towels to clean up the mess.🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
Oh please. Captain Covid in NY has got to be on a higher priority than a vaca. Whos it gonna kill? Meanwhile up in the Covid Camps the death rate skyrockets. Thats murder in any city. Even NY City. And Nipples gets a free pass? How about the media start doing their job? No ban?
The freeze spread People unfed Full of dread So while Texas bled Where was Ted? Oh he fled When he should’ve led Ted you empty head That’s not how you get ahead And so Ted pled & pled But his career was already dead Adios lyin Ted. At least trump got this one right
Won’t be a problem For TC. He’s well loved!
The TX power companies want to be independent so they can't be regulated by the Feds & over charge customers. Now they are begging the same Feds for billions. Regulation could have prevented this disaster. This is not a one time event. It will happen again.
How did Cruz get over that wall trump built?
It will.
We pray he just leaves..this country has real issues to deal with...go home and take care of your dog Mr Cruz
Cruzing out if accountability and responsibilities
Oh, please. If the election was in two weeks, sure but let's be real, most of his base will still vote for him.
More outrage and forensic sleuthing about Ted Cruz flying to Cancun than there ever was about Andrew Cuomo consigning thousands to death.
Why are your TX folk surprised? Y’all know his true colors and will vote for him again....Webster dictionary has it as: masochist
oh yes, make it so
The American people have had enough of self-indulging hypocrits particularly after 4 years of 'the previous president'.
Ted Cruz deserves it. If you don’t have any concerns for your constituents, you should not represent them. He is incapable of serving others.
Cruz isn’t a leader & hubris...not a good quality.
In your dreams liberals. We here in Texas will vote for Ted Cruz again
Dems in Texas sure hope so!!!
What can he possibly do to change what he’s done? There’s no getting anything right after abandoning your state for your own comfort while others are suffering and dying. Those with eyes can see it. This is his f-ing job and if he doesn’t want it he should get the hell out!!!
Can direct me to articles written about SenTedCruz & his part in insurrection on 1/6 & how he needs to be expelled from Senate, as well as prosecuted for that? I guess HansNichols only makes it his business to 'exploit' bad tensions among TheDemocrats. No parity.
He needs to go wake up Texas. He did not care about you at all.
You wish.
He sure is an ugly Mo Fo!
It’s time tedcruz resigns! TedCruzFailedTexas TedCruzFliesToCancunWhileHoustonFreezes
Can't stand the sight of him.
Hang in there Ted the nation is behind you, the sorry Sleepy Joe should be doing something for the Great State of Texas rather than giving all our money away, God Help America!
He’s clearly an idiot, and a poor judge of optics, but get real folks, senators have little power over the response to state emergencies.
Hey idiots he has 4 years to do it! You dumb liberals
The R idiots in Texas will keep voting for him. He knows that.
Not fast enough
Lying Ted and crazy Heidi left their dog in their freezing house. These are horrible people.
Well something had to take him down. How he’s stayed this long is a question in and of itself
Good. Take him down. Finally. Horrible excuse for a human being.
Resign you bum!
F-Lying Ted, Lying Ted, cancuncruz, CanQuncruz, FledRedTed, Frozen Texas Caveman Lawyer
Unpopular view: He's not the only parent who's been bullied by 10 and 12 yr old kids.
It won't hurt him at all. That's the problem
Ted Cruz abandoned his dog AND his constituents.
he'll survive thanks to those small Texas counties voting at 100% 😉😉
couldn’t happen to a better guy. abandoning us texans is only the second worst thing he’s done this year.
Major douche ResignTedCruz
“I was trying to be a dad.” He is a dad, right?
Brought down by being too cold to care and his own arrogance.
He may represent Texas, but he votes on issues that affect all of us. He needs to go and the sooner the better. ResignCruz
Needed—Consequences Culture See REAL democracies But in America, Sen. (TX) Ted Cruz flies to Cancun with family while TX in deep throes of power & water failure Cruz’s response? Use the outcry to raise funds. When will Americans wake up & DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY & CONSEQUENCES?
Superstorm Sandy First & only storm actively hoped by politicians to be severe enough for a disaster declaration They had to take that position after how they'd treated Bush 43 over Katrina 'I feel better because a politician is wearing a windbreaker & speaking at a lectern?'
Maybe his friends would have seen it more ‘patriotic’ if he had vacationed in Honolulu instead of wall-cut Mexico...
Cruz is dumb. What an easy thing to do, show your family keeping warm by a fireplace, melting snow for water. Demand immediate help from the feds, get supplies moving, get people and animals off the street. BTW FEMA response seems wildly inadequate too.
Ted is not going anywhere.
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