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babylonsister

(171,675 posts) Mon Sep 30, 2024, 09:23 PM Sep 30

Struggling Hardliner Ted Cruz Suddenly Insists He's Bipartisan

Struggling Hardliner Ted Cruz Suddenly Insists He’s Bipartisan
SERIOUSLY?
“I have never worked with a more miserable son of a b----h in my life,” former House Speaker John Boehner said of the hyper-partisan Texas senator in 2016.
Sean Craig
Updated Sep. 30, 2024 1:27PM EDT / Published Sep. 30, 2024 11:48AM EDT

Facing a tight re-election race, hardline Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is now claiming that he’s a bipartisan champion of reaching across the aisle.

“What is new is not that I’m passing bipartisan legislation that helps produce jobs in Texas,” Cruz—one of Congress’ most resolutely partisan members, so much so that many of his own colleagues reportedly hate him—Cruz said in an interview with Politico. “I’ve been doing that since the day I arrived in the Senate. What is new is we’re finally getting the press to report on it.”

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An index of Senate bipartisanship by the Lugar Center and Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy—measuring how much a legislator co-sponsors bills introduced by the opposite party and how much their bills attract sponsorship from the opposite party—ranked Cruz 89th out of 98 senators.

In other words, the man who routinely lambastes Democrats as trying to destroy America, the man who wrote a book called Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America, and the man who can’t even say whether he will recognize the outcome of the election is, unsurprisingly, one of the least bipartisan senators.

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Struggling Hardliner Ted Cruz Suddenly Insists He's Bipartisan (Original Post) babylonsister Sep 30 OP

I could believe that hoop snakes are rolling in packs Vogon_Glory Sep 30 #1

Even MAGA's hate him. How does he get re-elected? OAITW r.2.0 Sep 30 #2

He's in Texas Morbius Oct 1 #9

Wlcome on board! OAITW r.2.0 Oct 1 #10

Yeah, and I still believe in Santa Klaus, Ted. Dave Bowman Sep 30 #3

He Is Literary Running an Obnoxious "Boys in Girl's Locker-Room" Ad Every 30 Minutes in Dallas Stallion Sep 30 #4

When all else fails Faux pas Sep 30 #5

I can run faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. twodogsbarking Oct 1 #6

Yes, and I have to choose between Bella Hadid and Margot Robbie for date night this Friday hatrack Oct 1 #7

Why, well, choose? twodogsbarking Oct 1 #8

Vogon_Glory

(9,592 posts)

1. I could believe that hoop snakes are rolling in packs

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Mon Sep 30, 2024, 09:27 PM

Sep 30

On Austin’s and San Antonio’s freeways sooner than Cancun Cruz’s claims of “bipartisanship.”

OAITW r.2.0

(28,582 posts)

2. Even MAGA's hate him. How does he get re-elected?

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Mon Sep 30, 2024, 09:27 PM

Sep 30

Morbius

(97 posts)

9. He's in Texas

Reply to OAITW r.2.0 (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 1, 2024, 04:21 PM

Oct 1

In Texas, they're experts at voter suppression. That's how a guy who's very unpopular even in his home state can get reelected.

OAITW r.2.0

(28,582 posts)

10. Wlcome on board!

Reply to Morbius (Reply #9)

Tue Oct 1, 2024, 04:34 PM

Oct 1

Dave Bowman

(3,816 posts)

3. Yeah, and I still believe in Santa Klaus, Ted.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Mon Sep 30, 2024, 09:31 PM

Sep 30

Stallion

(6,613 posts)

4. He Is Literary Running an Obnoxious "Boys in Girl's Locker-Room" Ad Every 30 Minutes in Dallas

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Mon Sep 30, 2024, 09:46 PM

Sep 30

seriously even if you honestly believe that is an important issue-is that all you have to offer to the voters in Texas?

He seems to be desperately and cynically attempting to stave off the wrath of women. Ted Cruz is in some trouble I belkieve