{"id":52861,"date":"2022-09-09T00:41:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T00:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52861"},"modified":"2022-09-09T00:41:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T00:41:17","slug":"what-does-he-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52861","title":{"rendered":"What does he favor?"},"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>We elect our legislators to, um, legislate. Isn&#8217;t that the rule of thumb? Sure it is.<\/p>\n<p>However, when I see U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz&#8217;s name, the junior Republican from Texas usually is telling us what he opposes. The guy cannot affix his name to any constructive legislation, which is why he pulls down that six-figure salary.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz said today that he opposes legislation codifying same-sex marriage. He said it violates Americans&#8217; religious freedom. I&#8217;m not sure I get it, but that&#8217;s what Cruz said.<\/p>\n<p>Back to my point. Cruz won election to the Senate in 2012. He hasn&#8217;t distinguished himself as an author of legislation that benefits American lives. He continues to rail as a gadfly, raising hell and calling Democrats and sons and daughters of Satan.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when he isn&#8217;t seeking to get away from doing his job, which is what happened when he sought a vacation in Cancun in February 2021 while Texas were freezing to death in the killer winter freeze.<\/p>\n<p>Ted Cruz just pisses me off.<\/p>\n<p>There. Now I feel better.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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>We elect our legislators to, um, legislate. Isn&#8217;t that the rule of thumb? Sure it is. However, when I see U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz&#8217;s name, the junior Republican from Texas usually is telling us what he opposes. The guy cannot affix his name to any constructive legislation, which is why he pulls down that six-figure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52861\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What does he favor?<\/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":[18],"tags":[1941,4537,9620,5051],"class_list":["post-52861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-gop","tag-ted-cruz","tag-texas-winter-freeze","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52861","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=52861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52862,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52861\/revisions\/52862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}