Mike Luckovich for February 19, 2021

He’s a pimple on the ass of the Rong Wing Pushmipulyu.

Eduardo Rafael “Ted” Cruz slipped across the border into Mexico, looking for a better life than the miserable existence his conservative ideology had rained down on the state of Texas. One person on the Internet noted, “I don’t so much mind that he went to Cancún, but what bothers me is that he is going to come back.

Texts and other communications proved that his reason was to escape the consequences of the horrendous devastation caused by the failure of his attempt to sell a message that you can just let the market decide and there will be peace and prosperity for everyone.

Well, maybe that works pretty well for everyday consumer goods — with sufficient public policy oversight to protect the rights of workers and consumers — but for basic public utilities and public infrastructure, it is an issue of PUBLIC INTEREST and it requires PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION.

And then Eduardo Rafael “Ted” Cruz LIED about his trip. He said he just went to accompany his daughters and was coming right back. But he was dragging an oversized suitcase, and all three major networks and numerous cable commentary programs noted that he had a ROUND-TRIP TICKET, and the return date was SATURDAY, not Thursday, and he had just changed his ticket THAT MORNING.

While other leaders were trying to help people, including Beto O’Rourke who spent the day making phone calls and arranging accommodations for those displaced (even though he does not actually hold any office right now), Eduardo Rafael “Ted” Cruz escaped the suffering that HIS FAILED SYSTEM caused and ran off to a beach resort, and then LIED ABOUT IT.

When he returned to Texas, he had police meet him at the Houston airport to protect him from angry mobs.

I hope he gets burned by this trip!

Let’s hope and pray Texans remember this the next time Cruz is up for re-election or election to another office!

Many (very many) years ago, when i was learning about tech, we were told there were three grids. eastern and western made sense, but i never quite understood the texas grid. Becoming a bit clearer now… On a morbid note, maybe they won’t execute anyone during this power issue.

Just another lying crooked republican.

Ah yes, the Cancun Buffoon.

His mouth can’t talk fast enough to get him out of this one. Even faux news people were shaking their heads in disbelief. Does that mean we actually agree wit them on something??? …..Nah!

Texas deserves everything they get. You can hope that they pay more attention to the political process in the future but there is no hope for them. Keep sticking it to them Abbott and Cruz because they love you for doing it as you spout right wing economic sound bites and platitudes.

Remember that this is the state where they tried to force an opposition’s campaign bus off the road. Was anyone held accountable? Only result was that the Fat Orange Clown set that recorded Fascist scene to victorious music.

He told them: “So I did some talkin’ to the Sun and tol’ him I didn’t like the way he got things done.” Or was the BJ Thomas?

Then Senator Al Franken put it best:

“I like Ted Cruz more than most of my colleagues. And I hate Ted Cruz.”

The drawing is way too flattering.

Why is anyone surprised by ted’s flight?

Have you never heard about rats and ships?

TED CRUZ in 2024! (Keep Joe B in the Whitehouse.)

All the hot air coming out of Ted Cruz should keep Texas warm and the windmills running.

Now ted is backpedaling like crazy, saying it was a mistake. Well duh…

And yet the morons in Texass will STILL vote for him…

Got to give him credit.. he thought, perhaps.. it was a bad idea when he got on the plane. But like the politician he is.. quickly ignored it. No doubt it will give him nightmares.. almost, doing the right thing.

What is Beto doing during all this? Careful who you vote for.

PS: They’ll always vote for him. Because Jesus loves him. Like a son!

Republicans don’t age well. It must be all that dirty dealing for the rich at the expense of our more vulnerable. It shows up as horror and ugliness on their faces. Maybe a walking picture like Dorian Gray.

The GOP response to any natural disaster has been neatly encapsulated and expressed by the former mayor of Colorado City, the honorable Tim Boyd; “Sink or swim it’s your choice! The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING! I’m sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tim-boyd-texas-mayor-colorado-city-resigns-power-outages/

Maybe after he threw his daughters under the bus he’ll slide his chair a few million miles closer.

build that wall to keep the Texans out of Mexico

Here’s the thing you have to understand about Ted Cruz. I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz. – Al Franken

Hawley Doody and Rand A-PPalling aren’t the biggest POS’s in the Senate today. Ted Crud vaults into the lead.

Alexandra Petri, Washington Post satirist, wrote that Cruz went to Cancun because he knows his mere presence causes despair, and he didn’t want Texans to have to deal with that despair on top of the cold and snow and being without power.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/18/ted-cruz-cancun-surprised-texas-wants-him-back/

’Seeing Texas in crisis, my reasoning was that the last thing anyone would want would be for me to show up. I assumed that the only thing that could make everyone’s experience worse would be the addition of Ted Cruz. “My power is out… I am breaking up my furniture to burn it… and Ted Cruz is here!” That third thing would be the thing that broke you, I think.

Never in my life has someone said, “What a relief! Ted Cruz is here! Now things are looking up!” My presence has the effect of extinguishing the last small bit of hope that people were unaware they still had. Considering this, I concluded that if you were already struggling, my arrival (which in the best of times drains all the joy and color from the world) would not help things along.’

A bunch of Texas good ole boys were out carousing Saturday night and headed home well loaded as dawn was breaking Sunday. Their pickup truck veered into the oncoming lane, hit a minivan head on, and killed a whole family headed for early church. When they arrived at their deserved destination, even the devil was incensed, directed them to the hottest corner of hell and turned up the thermostat all the way. When he came back to check on them, he found them still celebrating: “Why this is just like home.” I’ll show them, says old Nick, so he transferred them to the coldest spot in hell and turned the thermostat all the way down. Came back the next morning to check and found the Texans still celebrating. “What the hell is going on?” asked the devil. Replied a good ole boy: “Hell just froze over. That must mean Ted Cruz is president!”

‘If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.’

~Miss Lindsay, 2016

A message that Cruz sorely needs came from Arkansas this week.

This video is downright INSPIRING. It is by a Conservative who strongly supports the Constitution. He is a power figure in Arkansas and as such, as well as from being a war hero, he also has national standing. His statement takes nine minutes but is very worth hearing since he gets to the most essential points and he describes a way forward which can certainly happen elsewhere, including here.

https://youtu.be/R6jdTaKzNIc

Hey, depending on the issue I vary (liberal for social issues that increase fair opportunities like civil rights, strong education, retraining for jobs, equal work advancement; old style conservative pre-debt-approach for most fiscal issues except that I strong think that infrastructure repair and replacement programs as a modern New Deal approach could help the nation greatly now and should be done; moderate in most else). Oh, and i am an independent who votes according to things like past voting records of candidates. I do not line vote and consider it lazy.

Oh look! A beached whale!!!

That man is truly a disgrace to Texas. I wish he would go back to Canada!

Hypothetical a$$#@!!

PROBLEM is, a seditionist was caught out being a seditionist, and the victims of his con game aren’t likely to smarten up for a decade or two…………….

And I know I already posted a bad version of this, but here is the new and improved version of this:

Josh Hawley (Fascist , Missouri) Sings:

When I was a punk, folks had no doubt

I’d commit treason, with my trademark pout

I did my level best to prove them right

When I told a mob of traitors to go out and fight

(When he told a mob of traitors to go out and fight)

They fought for me, and Confederacy, with swastikas a’flying

For Trump and me!

(With swastikas a-flying both for Trump and he)

I’m never ever modest so my own horn I’ll toot

I gave that mob of traitors my own fascist salute

And when the mob rampaged I quaked with fear

With a certain brownish discharge coming from my rear

(With a certain brownish discharge coming from his rear!)

But in the aftermath I voted straight and true

To acquit the pervert traitor, Madam You Know Who

(But in the aftermath he voted straght and true

To acquit the pervert traitor, Madam You Know Who

That flabby gut could provide enough heat for an apartment building

Looks like the good old days of Chris Christie on the beach . . . . . weird.

Would have been more of a relief had it been a one way ticket.

No sweat for Ted; the people will turn their attention to just surviving (finding food, getting natural gas & electricity for their homes, the pandemic, etc) and forget all about him, or move in with Trump!! It’s much warmer in Mar-A-Lago!!

thats dirt head, dumb azz cruze alright. And it aint going to get better…

Many Texans agree, Ted. Not a majority, but “stupidity” is contagious. Also, pernicious.

Even his Kids are unhappy with him.

After all, his First impulse was to throw his own Kids Under the Bus.