IF YOU CRUZ YOU LOSE

I personally respect Ted Cruz. He is one of the brightest politicians in congress, a true constitutional lawyer. This makes his decision to fly his family off to Cancun while his neighbors were literally freezing beyond idiotic. I suspect Cruz was thinking more like a husband and a father when he did this. His focus was on helping his family. But the truth is he wasn’t thinking at all. He should have known that someone would see him in the airport and that this would go nuclear. Now we learn that he left his beloved poodle at home. Nice.

One of the problems with being self-righteous and arrogance is that it often backfires. Cruz ridiculed the Mayor of Austin for doing the same thing. This is the type of mistake that could literally end his career. It is at least going to make his next run for the Senate more challenging.

At least Ted Cruz realized he made a huge mistake, immediately flew back to Texas, and apologized. But at a time when we desperately need Ted Cruz, we did not need this self-inflicted mistake.

Republicans are set to roll the table in 2022. The Biden administration has made huge mistakes and is impressing no one other than Don Lemon and Anderson Cooper. Since no one else is impressed by either of these guys, he is impressing no one. When Kamala Harris does speak, she literally embarrasses herself. I am sure a lot of people, in both parties, are horrified at the thought that she is making Chief of State level calls with people like Putin. Gas prices are already spiking. The vaccine roll-out is a hot mess, made worse by decisions based more on political correctness than science. The problem is compounded by Biden desperately trying to blame everything on Trump when the opposite is more than obvious. Even CNN has started to turn on the Biden Administration. They still hate Trump, but they are not impressed with the Biden Administration and it shows.

A little common sense could have prevented all of this. It was really this simple. Give the vaccine first to people who want it and need it. Instead they offered it to 30 year old firefighters half of which said no thank you. The same is true of other first responders and teachers. They should have said: If you are over 65 and want a shot, here’s where to sign up. Problem solved, but common sense is always uncommon.

Andrew Cuomo is pouring gas on himself on his exit from national politics. Just imagine if Biden had appointed him to be the Attorney General. At one point he seemed to be a serious contender. Cuomo is rapidly self-destructing. Unless something changes, he is toast. But today the MSM is trying to distract from this by punching at Ted Cruz. That is the way things work. The MSM will always attack conservatives, it is just unfortunate when someone gives them ammunition.

Fortunately, I don’t think this story has legs. But this does limit the ability of Cruz to take well-deserved shots at Democrats in the future. While the MSM ignores hypocrisy by Democrats it never ignores it when done by Republicans, particularly conservative Republicans.

The bad news is that everything we feared about a Biden administration is coming true. The good news is that the problems are already obvious and the MSM is catching on quickly. They are also learning something else. While they routinely accused Trump of lying, primarily because he disagreed with them, Biden does tell lies and his are so bad they are laughable. Like when he said there was no vaccine available before he took office. He apparently forgot about getting a vaccine shot on national TV. Anderson Cooper did not notice, but his audience did.

Ted Cruz also caught a break, because with all the things going on in Texas, Biden is absent without leave. He literally called a lid and went home yesterday. At least Cruz was smart enough to go someplace warm. Biden finally had the following statement issued:

If in fact it’s concluded that I can go without creating a burden for the folks on the ground while they’re dealing with this crisis, I plan to go,’ he told reporters at the White House Friday. 

Biden said he’ll make the decision ‘probably next week.

When George W. Bush made similar comments following Katrina, the MSM went ballistic. Trump, of course, could never do anything right. We can be sure the MSM will cover for Biden, to the extent possible.  Things are so bad that when the White House, predictably was thrown a soft ball question designed to let them skewer Ted Cruz, they took a pass.

“We’re not spending any time, energy or breath analyzing Sen Cruz’s whereabouts or his group chat,”

This storm is bad, a lot of serious problems and no one is getting a free pass. Ted Cruz is back in town and trying to step up to the plate after stepping in it. The good news is he is fully off Cruz control. The bad news is that it was too little too late to prevent the inevitable crash. Cruz, at least for today, is probably glad that Joe Biden is President of the United States. Almost anything he does will be more impressive than this.

TDM