Ted Cruz is, by most Senators’ comments, the Most Hated Man in Congress. Now that’s a singular honor since there are so many Senators vying for the title.
It’s comments like these that keep him at the top:
Interview
Ted(feigning some empathy with grieving parents): 19 parents who are not going to get to kiss their child goodnight.
British reporter from SKY: Is this the moment to reform gun laws?
Ted:You know, it’s easy to go to politics.
Reporter: It’s important. It’s at the heart of the issue.
Ted: That’s where the media likes to go.
Reporter: It’s where many of the people here like to go.
Ted:The proposals from Democrats and the media? Inevitably, when some violent psychopath murders people…If you want to stop violent crime, the proposals Democrats have? None of them would have stopped this.
Time out here for a brief aside
Call me crazy, but why are we letting violent psychopaths by AR-15s? Seems to me a violent psychopathic 18 year old should NOTbe buying assault rifles that can blow grapefruit sized holes in the bodies of 10-year olds, rendering them unrecognizable even to their parents except by clothing or DNA. Only in America Ted. We can fix this. Many have tried, but the NRA/GOP marriage swats down any attempt.
Back to The Interview:
Reporter(reading my mind):A violent psychopath gets a weapon easily. An 18 year old with two AR 15s.
Ted:If you want to stop violent crime. The proposals Democrats have? None of them would have stopped this.
Another Aside
Democrats have no proposals. The Senate shoots each and every one down before they are born. Laws as mild as background checks and Red Flag Laws die in the Senate and are buried in the Senate Graveyard where all Democratic “proposals” go to be buried.
Back to The Interview
Reporter: Why does this only happen in your country? I really think that’s what many people around the world – they cannot fathom–why only in America? Why is this American exceptionalism so awful?
Ted (with righteous feigned indignation because he’s not really sorry at all):You know, I’m sorry you think American exceptionalism is awful.
Reporter: I think this aspect of it…
Ted: You’ve got your political agenda. God love you.
Reporter: Senator, I just want to understand why you do not think guns are the problem.It is just an American problem.
Ted: You know what…
reporter: You can’t answer that-- why is this country…
Ted: People come from all over the world …come to America because it’s the freest, safest…
Small clarification here…Safest? Definitely not safest for school kids who are shot and killed at alarming rates far exceeding those of any other developed nation.
Back to Ted: …because it’s the freest, safest, most prosperous country on earth.
Then Ted ducks out the nearest unlocked door with his record intact and in line for the Senator who will continue to take in the most NRA money in Congress. Long may he reign.