This guy is just such a crap weasel:
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Wednesday assured Texans that the state would receive federal relief following major flooding, even though the senator opposed federal funding following Hurricane Sandy.
“There are a series of federal statutory thresholds that have to be satisfied. Initially, it appears those thresholds are likely to be satisfied by the magnitude of the damage we’re seeing,” Cruz said while touring the flooding in Wimberley, Texas, according to Texas television station KSAT. “Democrats and Republicans in the congressional delegation will stand as one in support of the federal government meeting its statutory obligations to provide the relief to help the Texans who are hurting.”
At least 15 people have died due to widespread flooding in Texas, and officials have warned that the flooding may worsen in certain parts of the state.
Cruz voted against a federal aid package in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, and claimed that he opposed the bill due to spending in the bill unrelated to storm relief.
These people are mentally ill.
Valdivia
yes better to focus our rage on the other side.
Cruz is my least favorite of all the GOP charlatans
c u n d gulag
Remember, Cruz-ader wasn’t the Senator from NY, NJ, or CT, so Sandy didn’t affect him or his state.
Now, it’s TX, his state, so the Fed’s better pony-up, goddamit!!!!
He’s a douche-aircraft carrier!!!
SP
Conservative descriptor #4 on the earlier-linked Cleek definitions: I got mine.
NotMax
Texas has oh so much to answer for.
scav
Big Govt Help? Provide “Relief” to those with manly bootstraps?!
Bex
The federal government wouldn’t have had to do anything if Texass had seceded. Damn.
donnah
Republican asshole senators can play “I Hate Government” all day long, until they need it, and then it’s all “Statutory obligations” to provide relief funding.
Fuck him and all the idiots who voted for him.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Not hardly. Cruz is a hero, not once but twice: leaving all the Yankees to die, while stealing their money for the people he represents.
It’s a shame he’s gunning for president, because he has the Senator thing down cold. Seriously. He’d have a lifetime job in Tejas if he wants it.
WereBear
Brilliant! And so true.
kindness
I can’t wait for the talking heads on TV to ask Ted about his hypocrisy of voting against hurricane damage in NJ & NY yet expecting everything for storm damage in Texas.
Just kidding! We all know this won’t happen. Never will.
@CONGRATULATIONS!: Duuude. Ted has the lifetime job locked up in Texas because he is never ever going to win the Republican nomination let alone a General Election.
Valdivia
@CONGRATULATIONS!:
also, too: because if it’s Texas it is deserved relief, not big government.
Hungry Joe
No, they’re not mentally ill. At least, most of them aren’t. Being a vicious, mean-spirited asshole doesn’t mean someone is crazy — it just means he’s a vicious, mean-spirited asshole.
Gohmert and Palin aren’t crazy, for example — they’re just good old-fashioned stupid. (Okay, Bachmann MIGHT be crazy, and Santorum could be borderline, as well.)
Snarki, child of Loki
So not only is Jade Helm going to be invading TX, but FEMA will be there as well.
Obama’s nefarious plans have even has Cruz fooled! Bwahahahaha!
Bobby Thomson
This isn’t as bad as his criticizing Obama for not taking actions in Syria after Cruz led the opposition to those actions in the Senate.
Cluttered Mind
Conservatives: Vehemently opposed to all federal aid except to conservatives.
MattF
I linked to this before. Cruz is a hypocrite and, IMO, should become a major user of a nearby bodily orifice. The surprise is that it looks like even the Village Idiots think so too.
Mike G
When has a “conservative” ever opposed lavishly spending tax money in their district?
The basis of their ideology is “Special rules for me because Jeebus says I’m special.”
JPL
@kindness: Yes and the media will also mention that Scalia wrote a book saying the entire context is importing in interpreting laws. Then they will discuss the fact that non documented immigrants is lower now that it was during the entire Bush administration.
Shortly after the media covers actual news events, pigs will fly.
fuckwit
No, they are scumbags. They are simply selfish and evil.
They’re not mentally ill. Calling them that is unkind to the mentally ill, who are by and large much better human beings than the Rethugs. Please don’t slander mentally ill people by conflating them with these fuckpuppies.
MomSense
I third/fourth the sentiment that these people are not mentally ill, just old-fashioned selfish. The old expression “what’s yours is mine what’s mine’s my own” is fitting.
Mike Lukovich has a great cartoon on this today.
Linnaeus
More evidence that no one really believes in “small government”.
WereBear
While I agree that they are not mentally ill, I do think a great many of them are either psychopaths or so narcissistic that they might as well be.
It means we haven’t really come to terms with the breadth and depth of mental dysfunction that creates both the modern Republican Party and those who happily vote for them. Just as Weimar Germany brought thousands of nasty people out of its own woodwork when they were sheltered by the umbrella of Nazi encouragement, so America has been giving much too much power to the spiteful, the fearful, the bullies and the con artists.
That is who we must fight.
Bubblegum Tate
See, if I were president, I’d make the sentient rectal polyp commonly referred to as “Ted Cruz” beg for that money. On national TV.
mai naem mobile
I’m glad you front paged this. I saw this fucker saying this yesterday. I wish Gillibrand,Schumer and the rest of the Sandy affected Sens would vote against the bill.
RaflW
I think Cruz is just blindly self-centered, egotistical and tribal. Perhaps that rises to a level of sociopathy. I dunno. But I see this as him valuing Texans and devaluing east coasters (even Jersey GOPers, which Jersey voters should take note of).
It’s all about who deserves what in his morally stunted universe.
Benw
Face… so… punchable…
mdblanche
I’m opposed to federal relief for Texas. It creates a moral hazard to shield people from the consequences of electing Ted Cruz.
But seriously, I’m really beginning to resent Texas and other red states for this attitude.
jl
Ted just says it out loud. Other than that, I see little difference between TC and the others.
Probably helps TC in the primary among real die hard reactionary GOP general purpose grouches and haters, since he is so in-your-face about his double standards and effortlessly infinite hypocrisy.
RaflW
@Hungry Joe: I live in Minnesota. Bachmann is crazy.
boatboy_srq
It would be especially delicious here if Ayotte, Toomey, Graham, Scott, Gardner, Paul, Johnson and some other fiscal hawks voted against the relief – and cited Cruz’ causes-for-complaint.
boatboy_srq
@mdblanche:
I am so stealing that.
Outside of that, though, we should probably resent maliciously-gerrymandered Red states less and VRA-neutering SCOTUS justices more.
srv
People in Texas are some of the nicest people you will ever meet.
mdblanche
@boatboy_srq: Gerrymandering doesn’t affect the Senate, so it’s no excuse for electing Cruz.
bluehill
Obama is playing nth-dimensional chess. Jade Helm was a false flag op to assess Texas’ defenses. This is the real start of operations to take control of a state we already own. Bwahahaha.
A Ghost To Most
@srv:
Got to be – they’re always saying “Bless Their Hearts” about people who aren’t in their tribe.
boatboy_srq
@mdblanche: Gerrymandering affects the state legislature, which decides who’s eligible to vote; and it affects the House, which determines whether the VRA and other counteragents to Confederate lawmaking are passed/renewed/enforced. So raw vote counts aren’t affected, true, but the makeup of the eligible voter pool is definitely impacted.
guachi
I’m disappointed you haven’t somehow connected this to the Clinton Foundation.
Maybe Cruz was a donor? You should check, John. Just in case.
Marmot
@mai naem mobile:
Nice. My house flooded. And my neighbor’s friend watched his whole family wash down the river — gone.
Cruz is a dick. But that doesn’t make any of the hardship abstract. Unless you lack the imagination, I guess.
Paul in KY
@bluehill: Agreed, comrade! Soon we will open the Re-Obamification Camps & those sniveling curs will have to learn to pray to Kenya! Buwahahahahaha!!!
Marmot
@boatboy_srq: Naw, man. It’s reprehensible no matter whether Cruz or not.
MsInformed
@CONGRATULATIONS!: He’ll keep it, too.Texas let’s you stay in office and run for another.
scav
@srv:
Roots will tell. And they certainly strain for 2a in distinguishing just who should and should not get emergency relief from government.
Tenar Darell
@mdblanche:
I often wonder if that is the point of all the obstruction, to create the conditions of STFU, and GTFO. Basically creating extreme frustration to the point of giving up on our fellow citizens.
mai naem mobile
@Marmot: you do realize the GOP controls the senate? Even if all the NE dems vote.against the bill it would pass. I just would like Cruz and Cornyn called out officially on their hypocrisy.
Aaron
Attacking him for hypocrisy accomplishes nothing his national reputation is already shit. Lashing out at Texas accomplishes nothing. What I think folks should do is just bury the state under political adds saying Ted Cruz opposes federal disaster relief. Don’t lie. Just don’t be specific. dont point out hypocrisy. The only way he goes down is if his constituents don’t think he’s serving their interests. Make a direct connection between personal disasters and national policies. Make it simple and don’t bother explaining it.
Aaron
Sorry. Make the message simple and don’t bother giving context to his position.
dweb
Once FEMA gets down there, kiss your liberties goodbye and pack your suitcase for the trip to the internment camps.
SarahT
Red States want FEMA money ? No problem – just as soon as their Congressional representatives pass a transportation bill that properly funds Amtrak, high speed rail, upgrades & repairs for bridges & tunnels in the Northeast, etc., etc.
Bill Arnold
@dweb:
I expect that the conspiracy theories already also involve weather control. Note to conspiracy theorists: causing floods is immoral, unless you are God (The Flood, Exodus post-sea-parting) or a goddess or a god-like entity.
Jparente
@Marmot: Texas deserves all the “help” they get from FEMA. My house was substantially damaged by Sandy. The “recovery” has been a nightmare. Because of Katrina, instead of helping, the rules state that if you received any flood insurance settlement, said settlement is deemed a “Duplication of Benefits”, or “D.O.B.” said settlement is then fully deducted from any mitigation grants you might receive. Mitigation benefits, in the case of Sandy, would be the physically raising of the home above the flood plane. Long, long degrading story short: I have been in the NY Rising “recovery” program since June of 2013. Nothing has happened. If you can’t fully finance the cost of raising your home, you are S.Oo.L.
Myself and thousands of others have gone broke because of this “help”.
NY Rising never even told me they had a buyout program.
I am now trying to sell my home. I will lose $ on the deal.
FEMA is a f19king nightmare and those Texas assholes who put Cruz and Abbott and the other assholes deserve what they are getting.
F*)k them.
BTW, if We were large corporations of [email protected]=ing Israel, the powers that be would be cramming $$ down our throats.
My advice to the “good people” of Texas (Bless their hearts) is to run away from your sodden homes. Rebuilding help is not on the way.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Marmot:
And the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy was imaginary?
Your senator is on record saying that disaster relief isn’t necessary when it happens in other states. Perhaps you should call or fax him and tell him to apologize for being such a dick to East Coasters before he starts making demands.
pluege
got that right!
rikyrah
THEY SAID they wanted to secede from these United States.
and now, they want evil Federal monies?
nope.
Theodore Wirth
Hey Ted. How’s about you spend the relief money on swimming lessons for Texans?
Karen
Karma’s a bitch, Teddy.
Debbie
Rick Perry also complained about aid for Hurricane Sandy, but then complained when he didn’t get all the funds he requested after the gas explosion in West.
Epicurus
Cruz is not mentally ill. He’s just a colossal dick.