After All He's Said and Done, How Does Ted Cruz Return To The Senate?

[TexasTowelie]

WASHINGTON — With his concession speech behind him and his multimillion-dollar presidential campaign already winding down, Ted Cruz will soon return to the U.S. Capitol and the job he was working so hard to transcend: rank-and-file senator.

It will likely be a striking re-entry. At times in recent months, Cruz appeared on track to land the nomination. But soon his campaign apparatus will fade away, as will the buses and traveling press corps. And come next week, he will be back to being just one of one hundred.

And when he returns to the Senate with two and a half years left in his freshman term, he will enter hostile territory. There is no way around it: The actions he took over the course of his presidential campaign only further frayed Cruz's strained relationships with colleagues.

This is the chamber where Cruz made a national name for himself by orchestrating a campaign to shut down the government, a campaign that many of his colleagues pleaded with him to abort. This is the chamber where Cruz once called his party's highest-ranking member, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a liar on the Senate floor. And this is the chamber where Cruz has an unusually disconnected relationship with his home state's other senator, John Cornyn, who said just last week that Cruz "came here to run for president."

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[madamesilverspurs]

1. Not with a ticker tape parade.

[BlueMTexpat]

10. Great graphic and

spot on!

[Skittles]

2. the man is a sociopath at best; possibly a psycopath

that's how

[TexasTowelie]

8. Actually I was hoping that you would be waiting at the door

to KICK HIS ASS, YES INDEED.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. That's a good question. But I thought nobody liked him anyway...

Most people would care about that, especially someone in elective office! He is one strange guy. I wonder if even his wife likes him? Or Carly Fiorina, for that matter?


Cruz elbows and punches his wife.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027801980

Carly Fiorina falls off stage at Cruz event
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017365323

[bulloney]

12. Somebody must like him. He was elected to the Senate in one of the largest states of the U.S.

[Rhiannon12866]

13. That's what baffles me!

I keep hearing that "nobody likes him," but a lot of somebodies must have voted him in...

[EL34x4]

16. Voters may have liked him

But Cruz burned every bridge he had in the Senate. With no friends or allies among his fellow Senators he will get nothing done for Texas.

I predict at age 45, his political life is finished.

[Rhiannon12866]

18. That's pretty sad - for the people of Texas

There are some in Congress that we see all the time - Louie Gohmert comes to mind - that you just can't imagine anybody voting for. Though I should talk, my current congresswoman is someone I could never vote for - a protégée of Paul Ryan. We used to have Kirsten Gillibrand here in NY-20.

[EL34x4]

15. Mike Lee (UT) liked him. Some say Lee was his only friend.

And then Cruz stabbed him in the back on the Senate floor over a prison reform bill Lee was sponsoring.

Yet Lee would eventually join Lindsey Graham as the only two Senators to endorse Cruz for president.

[KamaAina]

37. Many people down there would vote for Satan himself if he had an (R) after his name

As a matter of fact, they may very well have done just that.

[Hekate]

4. This election cycle has not killed him like the cockroach he is. He is young enough to run again....

...for POTUS in 4 years. He has an assured job for the next 2 1/2 years, and given the few demands on the time and energy of GOP Senators, he has plenty of time to brood over the wrongs done to him and plot his comeback and/or revenge.

Keep an eye out. I won't believe he's really out of our hair unless he fails to run for POTUS in 2020.

[TexasTowelie]

5. Give us Texans a chance.

I love to see him lose his reelection bid for Senate in 2018.

[Hekate]

7. Please, pretty please. I'll bet Texas cowboy boots do a good job of tarantula-stomping...

...and roach-stomping. The country needs Spanky Cruz GONE.

[ScreamingMeemie]

31. I've finally (after 7 years) gotten the guts up to kill a cockroach

(we like to call them by the less offensive name, water bug, down here--they fly, ick)

With my own shod foot. Before that, I used a whole can of Scrubbing Bubbles.

Ready to stomp Cruz out.

And I seriously know not one native-born or transplanted Texan who likes the dude.

[Hekate]

33. Good on ya

Meh, cockroaches are disgusting. I grew up in Hawai'i, where you just cannot get rid of them. My body must still be trying to cast off the effects of Raid.

What kills them deader than dead is a flip-flop, aka rubbah slippah. I got good at that, but only works one on one.

[MADem]

14. It took Nixon eight years to come in from the wilderness....

Never rule 'em out.

A snake can sit and wait for a long time....

[JustAnotherGen]

19. Plus 1000 n/t

[Hekate]

34. Oh gods yes

Shudder

[1939]

6. Two choices

1. Return to the Senate and be a lonely back-bencher as he was before he ran and work on a bruising re-election campaign in 2018.

2. Resign and do whatever.

Unless the country really goes off the rails, I do not see any 2020 meaningful presidential opportunity for him.

[ReRe]

9. How does he return to the Senate?

He squirms back and leaves that yukky little path of oozy pus all over everything. I don't look for allot of "open arms", kisses and hugs all around. Yewwwwww.

[d_legendary1]

11. The same way he got in

With middle fingers in the air while voting for right wing legislation.

[houston16revival]

17. Bringing the Scorched Earth Agenda Home Again

if anyone has the dirt on him

he'll be exposed soon because he's a loose cannon

and that's bad for other incumbents

[Orangepeel]

20. He was always a self serving grandstander that no one liked

So what'll be different?

[hatrack]

21. Like Columbia re-entering Earth's atmosphere, one hopes . . .

.

[Javaman]

22. i'm hoping he gets his ass handed to him next time he's up for reelection

I hope either there is a strong Dem or another type of crazy repuke to primary him.

[MoonRiver]

23. He probably needs the paycheck.

But maybe Heidi is ready to return to the work force, so who knows? Teddy could become Mr. Mom par excellence!

[TexasTowelie]

24. That's terrible.

Think of the children!

[MoonRiver]

29. I know, poor babies!

[11 Bravo]

25. With his Satanic tail tucked between his legs.

[Agnosticsherbet]

26. In a cloud of toxic mouth farts.

[underthematrix]

27. He returning to the senate because

TEXAS has more uneducated backward angry people than any other state. It makes you wonder how so many people could be that angry and stupid

[LanternWaste]

30. I wondered the same in regards to your post.

" It makes you wonder how so many people could be that angry and stupid..."

I wondered the same in regards to your post full of allegations.

[underthematrix]

32. Do you know the meaning of the word "allegation"

TEXAS is mostly white uneducated working class aka blue collar, which is the definition of the angry voter. When the pundits talk about angry voter this is who they're talking about.

[2naSalit]

28. With his pointy

tail between his legs, head down as a bad dog who knows he's in trouble...

Naw, he'll go back acting even more like the egotist asswipe he really is.

[nolabear]

35. Maybe he'll start a mega-church.

More money in it, and he's anointed. Right?

[KamaAina]

36. Through the storm drain?

[TexasTowelie]

38. .

[ananda]

39. Because that many ignorant bigoted Texans will vote for him...

... again.