Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) seems far more interested in scoring points in imaginary culture war battles than leading the people of his state and sticking up for their actual interests. Cruz was even recently selling personally signed copies of the Dr. Seuss book Green Eggs and Ham — although he obviously did not actually write the book, so applying his signature to the work definitely seems odd, at best. Raising an alarm about the imaginary villain of “cancel culture,” many prominent Republicans recently freaked out following the Seuss estate’s decision to stop publishing certain books containing racist imagery.
Over the weekend, in a whiny Twitter post, Cruz described the initial stages of Joe Biden’s time in office as “boring but radical.” Aren’t those two words sort of opposite? Logical consistency isn’t often a strong suit of nationally leading Republicans. On Twitter, Cruz promptly faced steep criticism for his petulant complaint about the Biden administration.
Three words to describe the first weeks of the Biden administration: boring but radical. pic.twitter.com/dEDeHFjOCo
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) March 13, 2021
How would Cruz describe his own weird Dr. Seuss antics? Helpful for the American people? While Republicans like Cruz and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) tried to make the Seuss estate’s private decision to stop producing certain books into some kind of grandiose cultural flashpoint, actual people suffered through actual problems outside of Republicans’ self-serving fantasyland nonsense. Congressional Democrats and the Biden administration enacted a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 economic relief package to help address some of these problems — among other provisions, the legislation includes direct payments to many Americans and an expansion of the child tax credit. Meanwhile, Cruz… sold Dr. Seuss books.
The chasm between the leadership capabilities of the two major political parties is crystal clear. Republicans act like they’re defending truth, justice, and the American way, or whatever — but in reality, they’re so detached from the basic reality of what’s going on around them that they’re resorting to trying to turn a handful of children’s books into a national crisis. Fox News covered Dr. Seuss day after day. They’re elitist and ignorant.
Check out Twitter’s response to Cruz below:
