Meet us at the Ritz-Carlton
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has offered a stunning explanation for flying out to Cancun on Wednesday night as his home state literally froze to death: He was being a good dad.
“Whether the decision to go was tone-deaf, look, it was obviously a mistake, and in hindsight I wouldn’t have done it. I was trying to be a dad,” Cruz told reporters late Thursday after returning home to a crowd of protesters chanting “Resign!”
That “in hindsight” is hilarious. What hindsight would that be? It’s not as if he didn’t know about the cold, the snow, the power outages. What does he know now that he didn’t know then? Hm, hm, hm. Oh I know – that everybody is yelling at him!
“Gee, if I’d known that everybody would yell at me for jetting off to Cancun while the people I represent froze to death, I would have gone to Vegas instead.”
“It was not my intention for [the trip] to be understood as… somehow diminishing the suffering and hardship other Texans had experienced,” he said late Thursday.
That “somehow” is nice too. He really can’t figure out how?
Fellow travelers seemed to out his insanely tone-deaf trip on Wednesday night by posting snaps of him inside an airport and then, later, on a plane. In the photos, Heidi Cruz is visible alongside her husband, raising questions about the senator’s explanation that he needed to escort their daughters, aged 10 and 13.
According to The New York Times, Heidi Cruz had actually announced the trip to neighbors on Wednesday morning, writing in a group text: “Anyone can or want to leave for the week? We may go to Cancún.”
She reportedly went on to mention a “direct flight” and “hotels w capacity,” revealing plans for a stay at the local Ritz-Carlton. But for those stuck behind, she said, “We have gas stove so at least we can heat water little that there is happy to help anyone we can too.”
Also we have some brioche, you can eat that.
Cruz’s decision to leave home for the sunny shores of Cancun came just two days after he told his constituents to do the opposite.
“I was speaking this weekend with the meteorologist expert who was saying the combination of these two storms, we could see up to 100 people lose their lives this week in Texas. So don’t risk it. Keep your family safe and just stay home and hug your kids,” Cruz said on the “Joe Pags Show” on Feb. 15.
But Cruz had no problem slamming Democrats for the same behavior back in December. After Austin Mayor Steve Adler took a trip to Cabo while simultaneously telling residents to stay home to minimize the spread of COVID-19, Cruz was one of the most vocal critics.
“Hypocrites. Complete and utter hypocrites. And don’t forget @MayorAdler who took a private jet with eight people to Cabo and WHILE IN CABO recorded a video telling Austinites to ‘stay home if you can…this is not the time to relax,’” he wrote in a Dec. 2 tweet.
In hindsight he wouldn’t have said that.
Yeah, it was wrong of Adler to do that. Cruz seems able to understand that when it’s other people, at least when it’s Democrats. I’m guessing if a Democratic Senator had helped incite a riot on the capital, he probably would have understood that was wrong, too.
Politicians don’t understand ethics. They understand optics. There’s a difference, but they can’t tell.
Sounds a bit like our Prime Minister, Scotty From MArketing, who was holidaying in Hawaii while great swathes of Australia burned, lives were being lost homes and businesses destroyed, Scotty from marketing laughed it off with “I don’t hold a hose, mate” comment.
Oh, and he’d promised the trip to his girls, so unlike those who fought the fires and put their lives on hold to save the lives of others, he had to fulfil his Pinky Promise.
We need to hang the lot and start again!
It appears the “promised to the girls” bit was a lie, like much of what Cruz says. I had missed that part. His wife made last minute plans with several friends so they could escape a freezing house.