The Houston Chronicle reported that Ted Cruz criticized Trump for the violent siege of the Capitol.
No kidding.
Even after the vandals stormed into the buildings, even after they spread feces on the floors and invaded private offices, even after five deaths, Cruz resumed his campaign to discredit Biden’s election victory. He persuaded a few other Senators and the majority of House Republicans to join him in claiming that an “audit” was needed in states that Biden won, even those states had already conducted recounts and audits.
There must be a metaphor for the role Cruz is playing: raising doubts about the elections, repeating them endlessly, stoking Trump’s claims that the election was stolen, despite ample evidence to the contrary.
“Shame on you,” Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo tweeted on Friday, saying to Cruz “You fanned the flames of mistrust and history will hold you accountable for the ensuing chaos. Outrageous!”
Cruz bears responsibility with Trump for the violence on January 6. He has blood on his hands.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Spot on, as usual. Hope you’re doing well in spite of all this white supremacisy governmental overthrow AND schools doing business-as-usual at the height of our preventable pandemic.
*supremacist. Sigh.
Not any different from Lindsey Graham. Another hypocrite! He denounced the violence and then went on Fox News with Hannity and flip flopped. Guess he got scared at the airport when his angry constituents turned against him? People do not look kindly on those who speak with a forked tongue.
lindsey graham is another horrible excuse for a human being. He is another who should face charges: interference with the results of the GA election while serving as senator of another state. He is also on tape as having done what it45 did w/Raffensperger.
REPS LIEU AND JONES CALL FOR GIULIANI TO BE DISBARRED | Congressman Ted Lieu
…We request that your office open an immediate investigation into the President’s attorney for his statements calling for a “trial by combat” preceding a violent insurrection at the Capitol in which five people died, including a U.S. Capitol Police Officer, and Members of Congress and the Vice President were credibly threatened with violence. We believe the actions of Mr. Giuliani disqualify him from being a member in good standing with the New York State Bar.According to the New York Lawyer’s Code of Professional Responsibility, “A lawyer should maintain high standards of professional conduct.” One of your lawyers stood on a stage on Wednesday, January 6th, and told an agitated, armed crowd – a crowd whose members had previously declared their intention to storm the Capitol, including some who wanted to execute or kidnap Members of Congress – that they should prepare to engage in “trial by combat” in reference to their misguided and illegal efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election…
https://lieu.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/reps-lieu-and-jones-call-giuliani-be-disbarred
Cruz didn’t jump into this ruse until Hawley acted first. He attempted to portray himself as a co-leader in this movement when he was in fact an opportunistic follower. He is a weasel. Americans get this for the most part. They knew he couldn’t stand up for his wife and that his cozying up to Trump was an attempt to curry favor. This is why he could never get a foot hold in the 2016 Presidential primaries. He needs to be expelled from the Senate and encouraged to crawl back into the hole he came from. He will be forgotten because there is so little that makes him memorable.
Exactly right about Cruz saying me too, after Hawley started getting all the publicity.
Not only couldn’t he stand up for his wife, but didn’t it45 accuse Cruz’s
father of being complicit in the assassination of JFK?
Cruz is a pusillanimous pus pimple on the face of America.
“Cruz is a pusillanimous pus pimple on the face of America.”
Are you channeling Bob? 🙂
Oh, wait, was that Marco Rubio’s father?
I’m sorry–the bad actors are all too similar, especially those who it45 time & time again insulted &, yet, stood by the it, kissing up.
If you had been repeatedly humiliated & thrown under the bus, wouldn’t you be flat out infuriated?
I didn’t know the House could pass a measure to force Pence to remove Trump under the 25th amendment. Does anyone know about this ruling????
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10:15 a.m.
Republicans block House measure calling on Pence and Cabinet to remove Trump under the 25th Amendment
By John Wagner
House Republicans on Monday blocked a measure calling on Vice President Pence and Trump’s Cabinet to remove him under the 25th Amendment.
The procedural move by the GOP to block consideration of the measure under unanimous consent will force the full House to vote Tuesday on the resolution. The resolution pressures Pence to initiate proceedings to remove Trump in the wake of the attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob and as calls from Trump’s impeachment grow.
The 25th Amendment gives the vice president, plus a majority of the Cabinet, the ability to remove the president from office if they determine he “is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
The resolution, authored by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), calls on Pence to to “to immediately use his powers under section 4 of the 25th Amendment to convene and mobilize the principal officers of the executive departments in the Cabinet to declare what is obvious to a horrified Nation: That the President is unable to successfully discharge the duties and powers of his office.”
During a pro forma floor session Monday, Rep. Alex Mooney (R-W. V.) objected to considering the measure under unanimous consent.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/11/trump-impeachment-biden-transition-live-updates/#link-3VJOCVDXW5CGZENGCJCC6KZJNQ
The House cannot FORCE Pence to do this. It can call upon him to do this, and that’s what the resolution does.
Cruz should be disbarred.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/533604-nearly-6000-lawyers-and-law-students-call-for-disbarment-proceedings-against
Nearly 6,000 lawyers and law students call for disbarment proceedings against Cruz and Hawley
Cruz should be Cruzified
And we can only hope that he isn’t resurrec-Ted.
Good ones SDM 👍👍👍
Cruzified
And we can only hope that he isn’t resurrec-Ted.
SDP: Your brilliance is burning holes in my computer screen.
Thank you for your consistently creative & sarcastic wit.
Excellent, Yvonne!
Love you, Diane.
As you know, I awake and read your post(s).
Thank you for sanity.
Yvonne,
Mind meld!
BUT, THIS IS AFTER THE FACT. Look at this report on the work of Republican attorneys general in who helped to organize the protest. This behind the scenes supporters and funders of this insurrection has not received enough publicity. I hope you find this as chilling as I do of the role of lawyers and especially supporters of “Republican attorneys general” is promoting the insurrection. generalhttps://documented.net/2021/01/republican-attorneys-general-dark-money-group-organized-protest-preceding-capitol-mob-attack/
Readers who have a GOP attorney general could write to her/him. Often their websites make it easy.
When I first read about all these Attorneys General supporting this utter nonsense about election fraud in support of wannabe fascist president for life Donald Trump, I was horrified. These are people who are supposed to uphold the law.
I still can’t get over that all these Republicans in Congress set out to throw out the votes of states they don’t even represent.
The Texas and Missouri Senators set out to disenfranchise voters in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin? Wow.
Voters in any of the 5 states can’t even hold Cruz or Hawley accountable in an election. They’re helpless. We all just have to put up with being victimized by them.
Chiara,
What’s worse than Republicans who wanted to discard the votes of states they don’t represent?
The Republicans who wanted to throw out the votes of their own states, which would invalidate their own elections.
As to your first paragraph, Diane–lindsey graham needs to go &, 2nd paragraph, those should go, too, since, according to them, they weren’t elected, so let’s go with that!
Ted Cruz: America’s #1 Hypocrite by dianeravitch
There must be a metaphor for the role Cruz is playing:
Absalom provided himself with a chariot and horses and with fifty men to run ahead of him. He would get up early and stand by the side of the road leading to the city gate. Whenever anyone came with a complaint to be placed before the king for a decision, Absalom would call out to him, “What town are you from?” He would answer, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel.” Then Absalom would say to him, “Look, your claims are valid and proper, but there is no representative of the king to hear you.” …
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Majority Leader Schumer, on assuming his position, should immediately move to expel the following Senators who fueled the insurrection by objecting to the certified electors:
Ted Cruz (TX)
Josh Hawley (MO)
Cindy Hyde-Smith (MS)
Cynthia Lummis (WY)
John Kennedy (LA)
Roger Marshall (KS)
Rick Scott (FL)
Tommy Tuberville (AL)
“Heidi and I are lifting up in prayer the family of the US Capitol Police officer who tragically lost his life keeping us safe. –Phony, Opportunistic, Seditious, Insurrectionist POS Ted Cruz
Doubtless the slain officer’s family feels all lifted up now after the comments by Senator Cruz.
No low is too low for Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz on integrity, honesty, and decency: “Less is more.”
I wonder how the families who suffered a loss or other hardship are reacting to Cruz’ actions.
As you no doubt know by now, another Capitol Police officer died. He committed suicide.
More people died in the Trump Insurrection than at Benghazi.
Bengazi- where the same individuals who helped stoke the insurgence and then claimed innocence blamed Hilary Clinton for the deaths of the diplomats.
Through a first person account, Buzzfeed described how it felt to be a black Capitol police officer fighting off a white nationalist mob of insurrectionists.
Saw that. Horrifice.
“And, far too many private school students have suffered because interest groups, politicians, and lobbyists predictably played politics and protected their own lucrative gigs with taxpayer funding. I was pleased to see, this time around, that Congress finally acknowledged what this Administration has said all along: All students and all educators at all schools — private, parochial, and public — are affected by this pandemic, and they all need and deserve support for PPE, cleaning supplies, learning materials, and more.”
That’s an official statement from the US Department of Education.
It always shocks me that a federal agency is so vehemently anti-public school.
Nothing comes out of that place that doesn’t adhere to ed reform market dogma.
Biden coming in isn’t going to make a bit of difference. The whole agency is utterly captured by people who don’t support public schools. They better clean house or we’re going to get the same anti-public school dogma we’ve gotten for the last 20 years.
Echo.Chamber. Firmly entrenched. No dissent permitted. You either cheerlead charter and private schools and bash public schools or you don’t get hired there.
Chiara, most of those who work for the Department of Education are career employees. They are not DeVos hires. What matters now is who is chosen to surround Cardona, who is innocent of national politics.
The choice of Deputy Secretary, Undersecretary, and Assistant Secretaries is key.
Will it be DFERs and Broadies, or people who believe in the vast majority of students who are enrolled in our public schools?
Gina Raimondo, Wall Street’s pick for Commerce Secretary…
Also, notice how DeVos omits the PPP funding that charter/private schools got that public schools didn’t get.
A deliberate omission. That this misleading garbage comes out of a federal agency is embarrassing. Why would anyone in the public trust the US Department of Education when they don’t tell the truth? Why would anyone send a student there for information? It’s not reliable. It’s politicized junk.
When the head of the NEA heard of the resigning of Debos, her comment was “Good Riddence!”
Rafe should resign immediately. His reasoning for doing this had nothing to do with voter fraud, changing the elections results or anything relevant. His whole purpose was to get his name out there in the news and keep it there. In his feeble unicellular mind, he thinks this will increase his chance for being the republican nominee for President in 2024.
Also it is not his job or the other 6 senators to object to the results of another state. Since he is not from Arizona, then he should have no business objecting the their results. He is there to represent TEXAS, NOT ARIZONA. If the Arizona senators don’t have a problem, then move on.
I also think there should be some legislation put in place to prevent any major acts (no more executive orders) from taking place following the Electoral College Vote
He’s number 1
The place at the top
Of hypocrite crop
Has rarefied air
But Cruz is up there
The battle is keen
But Cruz is unclean
And does what it takes
For number one place
I see him more as being more of a number 2.
LOL. Yes!
Editorial: Resign, Senator Cruz. Your lies cost lives.
The Editorial Board
Jan. 8, 2021 Updated: Jan. 9, 2021 4:18 p.m
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz lied to Americans about widespread voter fraud that never existed. He should resign and deliver Texans from the shame of calling him our senator.
But we reserve special condemnation for the perpetrators among them who are of sound mind and considerable intellect — those who should damn well know better.
None more than U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz.
A brilliant and frequent advocate before the U.S. Supreme Court and a former Texas solicitor general, Cruz knew exactly what he was doing, what he was risking and who he was inciting as he stood on the Senate floor Wednesday and passionately fed the farce of election fraud even as a seething crowd of believers was being whipped up by President Donald Trump a short distance away.
Cruz, it should also be noted, knew exactly whose presidency he was defending. That of a man he called in 2016 a “narcissist,” a “pathological liar” and “utterly amoral.”
Cruz told senators that since nearly 40 percent of Americans believed the November election “was rigged” that the only remedy was to form an emergency task force to review the results — and if warranted, allow states to overturn Joe Biden’s victory and put their electoral votes in Trump’s column.
Cruz deemed people’s distrust in the election “a profound threat to the country and to the legitimacy of any administrations that will come in the future.”
What he didn’t acknowledge was how that distrust, which he overstated anyway, was fueled by Trump’s torrent of fantastical claims of voter fraud that were shown again and again not to exist.
Cruz had helped spin that web of deception and now he was feigning concern that millions of Americans had gotten caught up in it.
Even as he peddled his phony concern for the integrity of our elections, he argued that senators who voted to certify Biden’s victory would be telling tens of millions of Americans to “jump in a lake” and that their concerns don’t matter…
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Editorial-Resign-Senator-Cruz-Your-lies-cost-15857293.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&utm_source=share-by-email&utm_medium=email
“There must be a metaphor for the role Cruz is playing: raising doubts about the elections, repeating them endlessly, stoking Trump’s claims that the election was stolen, despite ample evidence to the contrary.” OK. Here goes:
Ted Cruz is the predatory Lothario who makes up a false story about his wife’s infidelity to win the sympathies of a target he wants to have sex with.
Several points of comparison in that.
In actual use, however, I would express that as a simile rather than as a metaphor so that people would understand at a glance that it’s meant figuratively.
BTW, the best-selling K-12 literature anthology textbook program in the United States falsely defines “metaphor” as “A comparison of two unlike things.” That’s actually the definition of a simile, “A figure of speech in which one subject (the tenor) is compared to another, different subject (the vehicle), thereby suggesting one or more points of similarity between the two.” That textbook program sometimes slightly improves its false definition by calling metaphor “An implied comparison of two unlike things,” but that’s still not a good definition because it doesn’t make clear what’s going on in a metaphor. A metaphor is “A figure of speech in which a subject (the tenor) is spoken of as though it were something very different (the vehicle) with which it shares similarities.”
If people are going to have the temerity to write textbooks on literature, they ought at least to have the minimal expertise to be able to get elementary stuff like this right.
An even better definition of “simile” would be “A figure of speech in which one subject (the tenor) is said to be like another, different subject (the vehicle), thereby suggesting one or more points of similarity between the two.”
Trump ALWAYS doubles down. So, he is going tomorrow to Alamo, Texas, to praise his own horrific violations of human rights at our border and to dog-whistle his insurrection by pointing to a so-called patriotic insurrection (the insurrection against the government of Mexico) led by white supremacists. Trump is a clear and present danger. If the Congress or the VP and the Cabinet do not remove Trump, whatever horrors occur between now and the inauguration are on them.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/11/politics/fbi-bulletin-armed-protests-state-us-capitol/index.html
Yes to your last sentence, Bob.
But it will affect US. Michael Moore has put this out:
I found myself listening to the whole thing. Really pointed out the inadequacy of our laws to deal with such situations. I know Michael was unaware at the time he was posting that we apparently have no domestic terrorism statutes. It’s past time although I fear them then being used against peaceful protests. The disparity between how we know BLM protests have been treated and the initial treatment of the rioters at the Capitol couldn’t be more obvious despite the difference in purpose.
Outstanding. I wish that every American were listening to this tonight. He nails it.
However, there is one thing that he missed. If people die when you are committing a felony, like breaking into the Capitol, then you can be charged with first-degree murder under the felony murder rule.
If this had been black or brown people, you can bet your tushy that every one of them–every last one–would be charged with murder under that rule.
“Equal Justice under Law” reads the motto over the main entrance to the Supreme Court.
It’s time we acted as though we actually believe this, for don’t we? DON’T WE?
Also applicable, I suspect, to Trump, Donnie Jr, Ghouliani, and Mo Brooks, 18 U.S. Code § 2102, which deals with inciting a riot resulting in “damage or injury to the property of any other person or to the person of any other individual.”
NEW YORK CONSIDERS DISBARRING GIULIANI Rudy Giuliani is facing possible expulsion from the New York State Bar Association over incendiary remarks he made to Trump’s supporters before last week’s Capitol riot. The organization’s bylaws state that “no person who advocates the overthrow of the government of the United States” shall remain a member. State Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Democrat, separately made an official complaint to the state’s courts. [AP]
Rudy disbarred for inciting violence? How wonderful that would be!
The biggest mystery to me is how he could get elected so many freaking times when just about everyone I know despises him, even die-hard Republicans. I know most of ’em held their noses and voted for him in the primaries when it was down to him vs. Trump for the top spot. Trying to remember if I did, too, actually, because we can vote any primary we want and I damned sure didn’t want Trump on the ticket.
But ugh–I just love the John Boehner quote about Cruz, that he’s the most miserable S.O.B. alive. I know the agenda surrounding him and his dominionist evangelical stance, which sickens me, but other than that, nobody likes him. The Chronicle coming out with that furious stance doesn’t surprise me a bit. The editors are pretty good at calling out folks they’re pissed off at… I think they were just a lot more blatant about it this time.