Cruz would edit someone's dying words with a red pen if he could.Ģ. Cruz just objected to Ginsburg's dying wishes being mentioned because he didn't like her choice of last words. You know, the very thing that Cruz and his party did for a year when Justice Antonin Scalia died in the final year of President Barak Obama's term? The resolution's words didn't provide any legal recourse to blocking ex-President Donald Trump's ability to choose her replacement.
Last year, Cruz blocked a bipartisan ceremonial resolution to honor the late Supreme Court justice because he objected to "partisan" language relaying the justice's final wishes to delay filling her seat until after the presidential election. Then again if someone did, that probably wouldn't stop him. Since no one in Congress wants to speak with Cruz, he's more likely to break the rule because no one told him about it. One of the unspoken rules of American politics is that you don't have to agree with an opposing leader's politics to honor their memory after they die. Ted Cruz Blocks a Senate Resolution Honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg These are just the most bewildering moments in all Cruziness.ġ. These aren't his worst moments as a senator, attorney or human being. These are not surprising because the Cancun incident is just one of the most Ted Cruz things Ted Cruz has done in a long, long line of Ted Cruz-y moments. So why should we be surprised when the least-liked person in such an unpopular body of men and women does something that Ted Cruz would do - like fly off to Cancun while his state struggles with a killer winter storm? And why should we be surprised that when he came back in a pandering Texas face mask and blamed his own kids for the trip? And why should we even look moderately shocked when he made a joke about a rotten thing HE did in a CPAC speech in Florida? ("I gotta say, Orlando is awesome. Senate, a body of people whose collective approval rating falls below hemorrhoids, traffic jams, root canals and Nickelback. The junior senator of the Lone Star State defied the odds to become the most unpopular member of the U.S. Ted Cruz is a pioneer of modern politics.