Ted Cruz Apologizes To GOP Senators For Messing Up Their Weekend

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, pauses as he delivers a speech to 2014 Red State Gathering attendees, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014, in Fort Worth, Texas. Possible presidential candidate Cruz predicts Republicans will retake the... U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, pauses as he delivers a speech to 2014 Red State Gathering attendees, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014, in Fort Worth, Texas. Possible presidential candidate Cruz predicts Republicans will retake the Senate this year and that "2016 will be even better." (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) MORE LESS
Start your day with TPM.
Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz took the rare step of apologizing to his Republican colleagues during a lunch meeting on Tuesday for his procedural tactics last week which ended up forcing a weekend session.

“[T]he senator acknowledged that a number of his colleagues had to unexpectedly change their weekend plans, and he apologized to them for inconveniencing their personal schedules,” Cruz spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said in an email.

“That was not his intention; as he explained today in Politico, his intention was to secure a vote on President Obama’s illegal executive amnesty, and to use every procedural means to do so. He believed—and still believes—that forcing that constitutional vote was critically important, but he apologized for causing any personal hardship,” she said.

The news was first reported by Manu Raju of Politico.

Latest Livewire

Notable Replies

  1. Reminds me of a child ‘apologizing’, while not making eye contact with you, all along you know he’s gonna do it again.

  2. Texas should apologize to everyone for electing this nitwit.

  3. I still find it impossible to get my head around the reality that the Princes of Journalism there in D.C. talk to these guys regularly, go to cocktail parties and social events with them, deal with them day in and day out professionally, without noticing that the the majority of the Republicans in Congress are seriously mentally ill or, alternately, realize that more than half of them are either psychopaths or psychotic and yet think that is not a thing worthy of official notice.

  4. I think it’s because they get a fat paycheck. I could be wrong and I believe I’m not.

  5. Avatar for okicu okicu says:

    Princeton should apologize for “educating” him.

Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com

26 more replies

Participants

Avatar for system1 Avatar for austin_dave Avatar for don Avatar for bmcchgo Avatar for tweetivism Avatar for doninsd Avatar for ncsteve Avatar for clunkertruck Avatar for snig Avatar for leftflank Avatar for manhattan123 Avatar for jtgeomom Avatar for zoran Avatar for teenlaqueefa Avatar for mantan Avatar for norma Avatar for fitley Avatar for okicu Avatar for suicide_arsonist Avatar for fiftygigs Avatar for deepsouth Avatar for ellen Avatar for meta Avatar for chicago11

Continue Discussion
Masthead Masthead
Founder & Editor-in-Chief:
Executive Editor:
Managing Editor:
Deputy Editor:
Editor at Large:
General Counsel:
Publisher:
Head of Product:
Director of Technology:
Associate Publisher:
Front End Developer:
Senior Designer: