Friday, April 24, 2015
A classic performance from Cuban Ted Cruz
In the matter of Loretta Lynch and the Senate confirmation of her appointment, Ted Cruz carried on in the manner to which we should become accustomed to until we can safely deport him to Cuba. First he made a series of loud and most obvious noises unto his lizard brained base and then when the vote came, he was off fundraising.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, lectured his colleagues in a floor speech Thursday about how unsuitable Loretta Lynch was for U.S. attorney general, only to skip the vote on her confirmation and catch a plane to Dallas for a meeting and a fundraiser for his presidential campaign.We must set the priorities.
Cruz, who has been one of Lynch’s chief antagonists, was the only senator who missed the vote, which made the New York federal prosecutor the nation’s newest chief law enforcement officer by vote of 56-43.
Cruz’s absence was noteworthy and set political networks buzzing, because just a few hours earlier on the Senate floor he chided Republicans for failing to band together against her nomination.
It was a signature move for the first-term senator from the Lone Star State, who revels in tweaking and undercutting his own party colleagues in the chamber as much he does the Democrats.
Asked why he missed the confirmation vote, Cruz campaign spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said that the senator “had a commitment in Texas.”
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