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Tuesday, July 08, 2025

Ted Cruz could have booked numerous flights from Greece to Texas before the one he boarded--despite his office claiming he came home from his European vacation "as fast as humanly possible." The Daily Beast's newsletter The Swamp revealed Monday how Cruz was caught touring the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, 24 hours after the Guadalupe River burst its banks, sweeping away dozens of lives in an unspeakable horror whose full effects are still unfolding.

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"He was with his family and a lone security guard," said an eyewitness at the Parthenon. "As he walked past us, I simply said, '20 kids dead in Texas and you take a vacation?'

"He sort of grunted and walked on," the Swamp spy continued. "His wife shot me a dirty look. Then they continued on with their tour guide."

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"I like Ted Cruz more than most of my colleagues, and I hate Ted Cruz" - Al Franken.

#1 | Posted by Sezu at 2025-07-08 01:15 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

He's a U.S. Senator. I don't understand the need for him to present. Tots and prayers can be sent from anywhere, and as a sitting senator that is about all he has to offer.

#2 | Posted by mattm at 2025-07-08 01:32 PM | Reply

"He's a U.S. Senator. I don't understand the need for him to present."

Fair point, but I even less understand the thought process by which a MAGA Republican takes a vacation in a foreign country.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 03:15 PM | Reply

"If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you."

South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham

#4 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2025-07-08 03:28 PM | Reply

" before his Grecian holiday, Cruz ensured a reduction in funding to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (Noaa) efforts to improve future weather forecasting of events that cause the sort of extreme floods that are being worsened by the human-caused climate crisis.

Cruz inserted language into the Republicans' "big beautiful" reconciliation bill, prior to its signing by Donald Trump on Friday, that eliminates a $150m fund to "accelerate advances and improvements in research, observation systems, modeling, forecasting, assessments, and dissemination of information to the public" around weather forecasting.

A further $50m in Noaa grants to study climate-related impacts on oceans, weather systems and coastal ecosystems was also removed. Cruz was contacted by the Guardian with questions about these cuts and his trip to Greece.

Environmental groups said the slashed funding is just the latest blow to federal agencies tasked with predicting and responding to disasters such as the Texas flood. More than 600 employees have exited the National Weather Service amid a Trump administration push to shrink the government workforce, leaving many offices short-staffed of meteorologists and other support workers."

www.msn.com

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-08 03:34 PM | Reply

Cruz inserted language into the Republicans' "big beautiful" reconciliation bill, prior to its signing by Donald Trump on Friday, that eliminates a $150m fund to "accelerate advances and improvements in research, observation systems, modeling, forecasting, assessments, and dissemination of information to the public" around weather forecasting.
A further $50m in Noaa grants to study climate-related impacts on oceans, weather systems and coastal ecosystems was also removed. Cruz was contacted by the Guardian with questions about these cuts and his trip to Greece.
Environmental groups said the slashed funding is just the latest blow to federal agencies tasked with predicting and responding to disasters such as the Texas flood. More than 600 employees have exited the National Weather Service amid a Trump administration push to shrink the government workforce, leaving many offices short-staffed of meteorologists and other support workers."

That is fair game for criticism. He is deserving of an old British draw and quartering for many of his political votes. Where he went on vacation, MEH.

#6 | Posted by mattm at 2025-07-08 04:17 PM | Reply

A man who will not defend his wife from the insults of another man is a coward who doesn't deserve to be married to ANY woman, even a horse like Heidi Cruz...

#7 | Posted by catdog at 2025-07-08 04:26 PM | Reply

Colleagues: This is how 19th-century America would have dealt with the 'Cuban-Canadian Cruz Missile,' a foreigner who made himself a bundle as a faux Christian Republican US Senator impoverishing the rest of us: media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com

#8 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-08 08:41 PM | Reply

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