Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) complained on Fox News on Monday that he was taunted during a photo op at the U.S.-Mexico border last week. In the footage from the trip, Cruz pointed into the bushes near the Rio Grande and spoke of unseen smugglers on the other side. “Just a few […]
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Ted Cruz, the Republican senator from Texas, has found himself in the middle of a number of controversies. There was the 2013 government shutdown, wherein Cruz hijacked Congress with a reading of Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham; the time he accused President Obama of high treason for wanting to […]
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) began his speech at Orlando’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday with a quip about his controversial trip to Cancun during last week’s extreme snowstorms in Texas — and Twitter was decidedly unimpressed. “God bless CPAC,” Cruz said to a cheering crowd. “I gotta say, […]
When there was flooding in Midland County last year, Michigan’s senators went to the area to survey the damage. Oregon’s senators visited places that were hit by major wildfires and have been pushing for more assistance. Louisiana senators regularly tour hurricane storm damage in their state. But when Texas was […]
Screenshot: Conan Nobody likes Ted Cruz. Technically, enough people in Texas like the variously cruel, bigoted, sexist, and downright reprehensible things that Ted Cruz stands for to keep electing him to the U.S. Senate, but, as former Senate colleague (and guy with his own P.R. issues) Al Franken once wrote, […]
As millions of Texans were huddling in their homes enduring days without heat or water, their junior senator, Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzOn The Money: What’s next for Neera Tanden’s nomination GOP signals Biden AG pick will come under pressure over Cuomo Manchin to oppose Biden’s pick of Neera Tanden […]
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“Senator Cruz was playing politics in 2012, trying to make himself look like the biggest conservative in the world,” Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey said in 2017. “What I said at the time, both to him and to everyone else, was if you represent a coastal state, don’t do […]
By Alan Steinberg Let me be the first journalist to nominate Senator Ted Cruz and CancunGate for the Chris Christie Insouciance in Government Award for 2021. This distinction is named after former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and his DisneyWorldGate vacation during a massive Jersey snowstorm in 2010. And I […]
Trevor Noah and The Daily Show took a jaundiced look tonight at the weather and public health crisis in Texas, where people are melting snow for water. “The saddest part is that one poor Texan had to travel 800 miles just to get his water and electricity.” That Texan, of […]
The Guardian Ted Cruz flies to Cancun as millions of Texans freeze in the dark Texas senator boarded flight on Wednesday nightPower out for millions after snowstorm hits Cruz’s home state Ted Cruz checks in for a flight at Cancun International Airport after a backlash over his family vacation on […]
Public outrage has mounted in recent days as officials in Texas have sought to deflect blame for the state’s lack of preparedness for the storms — and Cruz, a prominent Republican figure widely seen as a potential 2024 presidential contender, immediately became an object of scorn for Texans already incensed […]
Yet that’s exactly what Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) chose to do. While hospitals around the state lost power and were forced to evacuate patients, homes went dark and frozen water pipes burst, icy roads forced terrible choices between risking the cold at home or chancing the journey to power and […]
Stringer/Reuters Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has offered a stunning explanation for flying out to Cancun on Wednesday night as his home state literally froze to death: I was being a “good dad.” “With school canceled for the week, our girls asked to take a trip with friends,” he said in […]
Meghan McCain compares Ted Cruz to Marie Antoinette for Cancun trip as ‘People are freezing to death’ (Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images) Ted Cruz was compared to Marie Antoinette for jetting to Cancun during the deadly winter storm pounding Texas and now faces calls for his resignation. The senator from Texas flew […]
Earlier this month, a fascist mob attacked the Capitol building leaving five people dead. The group was incited by Donald Trump but also his enablers in Congress like Ted Cruz, who objected to the certification of Joe Biden’s win and whipped the rioters into a frenzy by making baseless claims […]
Eddie Van Halen, the guitar legend who died Tuesday at 65, has received tributes from countless rockers and celebrities — including the fictional Wyld Stallyns from “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.” “Bill & Ted” writer Ed Solomon said that he and co-writer Chris Matheson desperately wanted Van Halen to make […]
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in “Bill & Ted Face the Music” Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in “Bill & Ted Face the Music” Orion Picutres Whoa! Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) are back! Sure, it seems like the two dudes from San Dimas have been lost in […]
For those of you who are curious or just want to relive the rockin’ adventure’s epilogue, we’ve broken down exactly what happens after the credits in Bill and Ted 3. Otherwise, click away now! The bodacious threequel is out now in cinemas and on-demand in the U.S. (check out our […]
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in “Bill & Ted Face the Music” Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in “Bill & Ted Face the Music” Orion Picutres Making good on the promise of one of their signature catchphrases, “Catch ya’ later!” Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) are back. Sure, […]
Featuring a young Keanu Reeves, a madcap time-travelling plot and a supply of the most bodacious catchphrases, 1989’s “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” has become a cult comedy classic. Three decades on, the hit that launched Reeves’ career is back for a third movie — and its air-headed, good-natured heroes’ […]
What better way to celebrate the first Bill & Ted movie in 29 years than with a band that took the Nineties by storm? “My head is spinning, it’s the beginning of the end,” Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo sings in the hook of just-released song “Beginning of the End.” The […]