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    Flying your kids to Cancun makes you scum, in Leanne's book but, killing thousands of people in nursing homes, doesn't.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Calypso Jones View Post
    Perhaps Leanne would be happier if Mr. Cruz and his wife had done this to his daughter rather than take her to Cancun.

    Actress Jameela Jamil: Killing My Baby in an Abortion Made My Life “a Million Times Better” | LifeNews.com

    Leftist Actress says killing her unborn 'clump of cells' made her life so much better. lovely
    You talk about me having problems??? You are in a world of $#@!...holy crap!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Abby08 View Post
    Not all.
    95%. The left is way worse at this point, but don't kid yourself, most of the right doesn't care either. There are a few good ones here and there, but we're swimming upstream here. The country is compromised. What Ted Cruz did here ranks low compared to a guy like Cuomo dictatorially shutting his state down, murdering thousands of old people, etc, but you're kidding yourself if you think a Ted Cruz gives a $#@! about the average American family.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leanne778 View Post
    Talk about selfish jackasses. I mean really?? He really needed to be there for the Texan people. Do something you POS. How nice, going to Cancun. He is, honest to god, the low of the low. He really is scum.

    In politics, there are a few unwritten rules that every good politician adheres to. Don’t compare any situation to Nazi Germany. Don’t get out of step with your party base. And perhaps most importantly, when things go sideways for your constituents, don’t go on vacation.

    Texas Sen. Ted Cruz broke that rule this week when he and his family were spotted hopping on a plane to the resort town of Cancun, Mexico, amid a devastating winter storm and subsequent power grid failure in his home state that has left millions in dire straits.


    Cruz sought to frame the trip as a necessary dad moment on Thursday. “Wanting to be a good dad, I flew down with them last night and am flying back this afternoon,” he said in a statement. “My staff and I are in constant communication with state and local leaders to get to the bottom of what happened in Texas.”
    No one expects Cruz to fix the problems with Texas power grid. (As I explained on Wednesday, the issue with the grid has its roots in Texas’ long-standing belief that it is an independent nation-state, operating entirely apart from the federal government’s reach.)
    Cruz isn’t a power grid expert. Nor, as a senator, does he have any ability to effect immediate change in the way the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which runs the Texas grid, operates. (ERCOT is overseen by the Texas state legislature and the state’s Public Utility Commission.)

    But in moments of crisis – and there are millions of Texans in crisis right now – people look to politicians for comfort and reassurance. And they do it even if they know that no one particular politician has the ability to help them out of their current problems. They do it because, in theory, our elected officials are leaders in our community and, therefore, are responsible for bringing the community together in moments of tragedy or catastrophe.
    Ted Cruz's Cancun trip violates the first rule of politics - CNN Politics
    Houston was lit up like a Christmas tree while others in Texas had no power. I guess the Democrats that run Houston, Sheila Jackson Lee and gang didn't care one bit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Abby08 View Post
    Flying your kids to Cancun makes you scum, in Leanne's book but, killing thousands of people in nursing homes, doesn't.
    Stay on topic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by carolina73 View Post
    Houston was lit up like a Christmas tree while others in Texas had no power. I guess the Democrats that run Houston, Sheila Jackson Lee and gang didn't care one bit.
    Any politician or community leader should be there to help. Do something for god sakes.

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    Everyone calm down. It's not Ted's fault. His young daughters forced him to go.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leanne778 View Post
    Talk about selfish jackasses. I mean really?? He really needed to be there for the Texan people. Do something you POS. How nice, going to Cancun. He is, honest to god, the low of the low. He really is scum.

    In politics, there are a few unwritten rules that every good politician adheres to. Don’t compare any situation to Nazi Germany.
    Full $#@!ing stop. You and your ilk have spent 4 years calling Trump and his supporters NAZIS. Shut the $#@! up.
    Cutesy Time is OVER

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leanne778 View Post
    Any politician or community leader should be there to help. Do something for god sakes.
    God helps those who help themselves.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Leanne778 View Post
    Any politician or community leader should be there to help. Do something for god sakes.
    Cruz does not run the state. There is nothing he can do. He lives in Houston and Houston has plenty of power. The mayor of Houston however did nothing to stop the waste of lighting up the Houston sky line while others in the state were freezing.

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