Wow. Ted Cruz is really unhappy with the political circus that’s unfolded in the last few days between Corker, Flake and Trump and he has some harsh words for his fellow Senators:
(Listen to the first three minutes, or more if you want)
Here’s more from The Hill:
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is warning his GOP colleagues to stop fighting with President Trump and focus on passing the party’s agenda.
“It’s like you’re back in junior high. … We’ve got a job to do, dammit, and so all of this nonsense, I got nothing to say on it. Everyone shut up and do your job, is my view,” Cruz told conservative radio host Mark Davis on Wednesday.
Cruz was asked about Republican Sens. Bob Corker (Tenn.) and Jeff Flake (Ariz.), who offered blistering criticism of Trump on Tuesday, but he didn’t directly mention the two in his response.
He added that Americans are “frustrated” by Republicans’ inability to make good on years-long campaign promises.
“Well I think it’s unfortunate the nastiness that pervades Washington now and political battles of personality that consume seemingly every minute of the media attention and an awful lot of time and energy here in this town,” he said.
Cruz has the right perspective here: they have a job to do and it’s time to shut up and do it.
As he points out it is rare in this day and age that we have Republicans running everything and he clearly doesn’t want to waste it on petty arguments and bickering. But so far that’s what they are doing and, as we’ve seen, Trump certainly is doing his best to keep it going as well.
On a side note I just want to point out that it’s rare that we hear Cruz curse in public, even mildly. I think that’s a sign at just how pissed off he is at this whole political circus, especially while no big legislation is coming out of the Congress.