![]() ![]() The pro-Cruz caucus was smaller, a lot smaller. Lamar Alexander suggested that Cruz missed the kindergarten lesson on basic respect, while Dan Coats complained that Cruz’s entire presidential bid has been about throwing him and his fellow senators “under the bus.” Rubio and Paul fought bitterly with Cruz in the campaign and each accused him in a debate of being willing to say or do anything to get elected. ![]() (Direct quote to MSNBC, “I’ll take cyanide” rather than live under a President Cruz.) Thanks to the beauty of video, we all now know former Speaker John Boehner considers Cruz “Lucifer in the flesh” and that Rep. Is “hate” too strong a word? Let’s review. īut more so than anyone before him, Cruz returns to Washington a hated man, especially when it comes to members of his own party. Just this year, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio have already gotten back to business on the Hill, and Bernie Sanders won’t be far behind. John McCain did it, too, and he resumed his happy warrior status on the Armed Services Committee. John Kerry did it, albeit reluctantly, before getting plucked to be President Obama’s secretary of State. Of course, he’ll hardly be the first senator to come back to Capitol Hill after a failed presidential run. Even the tragically named “Lose with Cruz” revolution is losing its steam.īut what will a welcome-back party look like for a man when he calls his boss a liar on the Senate floor and routinely maligns his co-workers as “mendacious” in his stump speeches? My guess is the LBJ room won’t be crowded for the party lunches the day Ted Cruz comes home. With California still to vote, Cruz can’t win the GOP nomination outright. Ted Cruz loves to mock the “ Washington cartel ,” but after his loss in Indiana, Cruz is going to end up back in his day job at Cartel HQ any day now. ![]()
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