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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTed Cruz Just Caved On Flint Aid Only After Being Shamed By Other Senators
http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/politics/update-ted-cruz-just-caved-on-flint-aid-only-after-being-shamed-by-other-senators/Update: Prior to this articles publishing, Senator Cruz was flagrantly blocking federal aid to the overwhelmed residents of Flint, Michigan. It was only after he was shamed by other members of Congress did he change course and support the bill.
Theres one truly amazingly wonderful thing about being a teabagger: you get to hate govmint while living off of it because youre white and own guns and crap. Okay, maybe that is more violently maddening than wonderful. But what makes your blood pressure rise faster than Lewis Black in a Daily Show segment is when a Republican Senator does it.
Proving once again that his chief concern is trying to best trump for the moron vote, Republican Senator and Presidential Candidate Ted Cruz is obstructing a key bi-partisan bill that provides millions of dollars to Flint, Michigana city beset by water contamination. This is the same man (well, pretend human being) who begged for the big old meanie govmint to bail out his then flood-stricken state of Texas. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a lead negotiator on the Flint aid package, recognized that Cruzs inaction was preventing it from moving to the floor.
How much of a lunatic do you have to be when even Jim Inhofe, the guy who thinks climate change is whatever happens to be going on outside his window, looks better than you.
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Ted Cruz Just Caved On Flint Aid Only After Being Shamed By Other Senators (Original Post)
KamaAina
Feb 2016
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Paladin
(28,272 posts)1. And why wasn't Cruz confronted with this on last night's CNN debate?
Instead of being fed the same old immigration questions for which he's had canned answers, for weeks now?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)2. Because Leslie is in the tank for the repukes?
And the other repukes don't give a flying banana about Flint?
(I know Leslie isn't really Wolf's real name. )
Paladin
(28,272 posts)3. I guess Blitzer could have done a worse moderating job, last night.
But it would have taken a monumental effort on his part to do so.