Holy shit, 2021 wanting to make up for 2020 at break neck speed.
Ted Cruz wants to be a populist. But he can’t get it right.
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Ted Cruz's Daughters Are Paying The Real Price For The Vacation
https://www.nickiswift.com/338626/ted-cruzs-daughters-are-paying-the-real-price-for-the-vacation/
Ted Cruz’s Flimsy Excuse For His Cancun Beach Vacation Just Fell Apart
A new report makes the Texas senator’s early attempt to blame his daughters look especially bad.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-cancun-friend_n_60334af4c5b66dfc101fb9e9
https://www.nickiswift.com/338626/ted-cruzs-daughters-are-paying-the-real-price-for-the-vacation/
Ted Cruz’s Flimsy Excuse For His Cancun Beach Vacation Just Fell Apart
A new report makes the Texas senator’s early attempt to blame his daughters look especially bad.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-cancun-friend_n_60334af4c5b66dfc101fb9e9
Houston Chronicle Editorial Board Torches Ted Cruz Over Cancun Trip
“Texans’ anger with Ted Cruz right now could power an entire electrical grid,” the vacationing senator’s home state newspaper wrote in an editorial.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-...le-editorial-board_n_602fab16c5b67c32961ce7f9
The Houston Chronicle editorial board called on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to resign over his Cancun debacle in a blistering editorial on Friday. The home state newspaper described Cruz’s vacation during a Texas weather crisis as “foolish, callous and sadly telling of his approach to the job over the past eight years.”
“Texans’ anger with Ted Cruz right now could power an entire electrical grid,” the board said of the senator’s getaway this week to Mexico with his family as Texans suffered during freezing weather, power outages and water shortages. Cruz returned to Texas Thursday amid growing fury.
The editorial acknowledged that the Texas crisis was not of Cruz’s making and that the job of a U.S. senator is not to “shovel the coal.”
“The crisis is the handiwork of state officials, not federal,” the editorial said, but “we expect leadership and perhaps a little solidarity from a man whose re-election campaign heavily rested on claims of his compassion and advocacy for suffering Texans after Hurricane Harvey.”
The editorial board only last month called for Cruz’s resignation for stoking the violent mob of pro-Donald Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol.
Cruz’s escape to Mexico “hits a new low — even by the senator’s own standards,” it said.
“Take our advice, senator, and resign,” the editorial concluded. “Seems like you could use a break and we could, too, from an ineffective politician who, even in crisis, puts his personal itinerary before the needs of Texans.”
Read the full editorial here.
“Texans’ anger with Ted Cruz right now could power an entire electrical grid,” the vacationing senator’s home state newspaper wrote in an editorial.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-...le-editorial-board_n_602fab16c5b67c32961ce7f9
The Houston Chronicle editorial board called on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to resign over his Cancun debacle in a blistering editorial on Friday. The home state newspaper described Cruz’s vacation during a Texas weather crisis as “foolish, callous and sadly telling of his approach to the job over the past eight years.”
“Texans’ anger with Ted Cruz right now could power an entire electrical grid,” the board said of the senator’s getaway this week to Mexico with his family as Texans suffered during freezing weather, power outages and water shortages. Cruz returned to Texas Thursday amid growing fury.
The editorial acknowledged that the Texas crisis was not of Cruz’s making and that the job of a U.S. senator is not to “shovel the coal.”
“The crisis is the handiwork of state officials, not federal,” the editorial said, but “we expect leadership and perhaps a little solidarity from a man whose re-election campaign heavily rested on claims of his compassion and advocacy for suffering Texans after Hurricane Harvey.”
The editorial board only last month called for Cruz’s resignation for stoking the violent mob of pro-Donald Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol.
Cruz’s escape to Mexico “hits a new low — even by the senator’s own standards,” it said.
“Take our advice, senator, and resign,” the editorial concluded. “Seems like you could use a break and we could, too, from an ineffective politician who, even in crisis, puts his personal itinerary before the needs of Texans.”
Read the full editorial here.
Not as clever as the way Cuomo counts
i dunno. Some of the economic projections that came out of the Trump tax cuts had some interesting math
GOP rapidly becoming the blue-collar party:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1258468?__twitter_impression=true
The question to me is whether the voters will pull Republican politicians to the left on issues like unions or will the politicians pull the blue collar to the right on issues like healthcare.
This is interesting to me because republicans don’t typically support policies that help working people, in many ways they support policies that harm them. However, their culture war, white ethnic based messaging has rallied many blue collar Americans to support republicans.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1258468?__twitter_impression=true
The question to me is whether the voters will pull Republican politicians to the left on issues like unions or will the politicians pull the blue collar to the right on issues like healthcare.
This is interesting to me because republicans don’t typically support policies that help working people, in many ways they support policies that harm them. However, their culture war, white ethnic based messaging has rallied many blue collar Americans to support republicans.
Now Ted Cruz may be buying his own books through a mystery company
If Cancún Ted is paying royalties to himself through a shadow entity, that could stir the FEC into action
https://www.salon.com/2021/02/22/now-ted-cruz-may-be-buying-his-own-books-through-a-mystery-company/
If Cancún Ted is paying royalties to himself through a shadow entity, that could stir the FEC into action
https://www.salon.com/2021/02/22/now-ted-cruz-may-be-buying-his-own-books-through-a-mystery-company/
"Political strategists often debate about the best way to win voters: Are cultural or economic appeals better? These data suggest that economic appeals might offer the Republican Party the best way to broaden its appeal. That path, however, would likely mean a retooling on policy policy approaches to make them better resonate with blue-collar voters.
"And one other point as the Republicans' intra-party war grows deeper: Looking as these numbers, most of the GOP's blue-collar growth took place during the presidency of Trump. If this is the path the Republicans choose going forward, it might mean tying the party even closer to him."
Win win. Changing economic policy to better fit blue-collar voters, or continuing the split in the GOP over Trump.