{"id":46894,"date":"2021-03-07T02:04:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T02:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46894"},"modified":"2021-03-07T02:07:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T02:07:18","slug":"cruz-still-piing-me-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46894","title":{"rendered":"Cruz still pi**ing me off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cruz-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46660\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cruz-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cruz-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cruz-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cruz-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cruz-1.jpg 1123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By JOHN KANELIS<\/strong> \/<a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\"> johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ted Cruz might one day run out of ways to make me angry.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know when that will happen with the junior U.S. senator from Texas. For all I know, his reservoir of contemptible behavior is bottomless. The good news for me is that he likely will keep this blog loaded for bear. The bad news is that he might wear me out.<\/p>\n<p>Almost from the day he took office, Cruz has become a major league a**hole. He defeated defeated then-Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in the 2012 Republican primary and then cruised to an easy general election victory that year.<\/p>\n<p>It took him no time to begin prancing and preening on the Senate floor, setting up a run for the presidency in 2016. His bald and blind ambition managed to anger his fellow Republican colleagues, not to mention the Democrats who serve with him.<\/p>\n<p>The late Sen. John McCain once scolded Cruz for questioning the integrity of two senators, both of whom were &#8212; like McCain &#8212; Vietnam War veterans; Cruz, of course, never has worn this country&#8217;s uniform. But there he was, wondering whether John Kerry and Chuck Hagel were sufficiently loyal to this country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=592&amp;\">Cruz puts on shameful sideshow | High Plains Blogger<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The nadir of Cruz&#8217;s behavior, though, has to be the manner in which he questioned the integrity of the 2020 presidential election, alleging vote fraud that doesn&#8217;t exist. Donald Trump then incited the rioters who stormed Capitol Hill on Jan. 6 and <em>still<\/em> questioned whether the election was fair and legal.<\/p>\n<p>The man just sickens me. I get sicker every time I see his face and hear his voice. Given his penchant for bloviating in front of TV cameras, I need to steel myself for years of nausea.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Ted Cruz might one day run out of ways to make me angry. I don&#8217;t know when that will happen with the junior U.S. senator from Texas. For all I know, his reservoir of contemptible behavior is bottomless. The good news for me is that he likely will keep this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46894\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cruz still pi**ing me off<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1941,4537,5051],"class_list":["post-46894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-gop","tag-ted-cruz","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46896,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46894\/revisions\/46896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}