{"id":182234,"date":"2021-02-19T00:46:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T21:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ted-cruz-makes-being-a-good-dad-look-lousy\/"},"modified":"2021-02-19T00:46:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T21:46:25","slug":"ted-cruz-makes-being-a-good-dad-look-lousy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ted-cruz-makes-being-a-good-dad-look-lousy\/","title":{"rendered":"#Ted Cruz makes being ‘a good dad’ look lousy"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Ted Cruz makes being ‘a good dad’ look lousy<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Image of the Week: As Texans faced a crisis, their senator packed up and flew off to Cancun\n <\/div>\n
\n It was not a good look, in December, when dozens of Canadian political figures flew off to warmer climes, after government leaders implored Canadians to stay at home. But at least Canada wasn\u2019t stricken by the chaos of a lethal blizzard that left millions of residents without running water, glazed roads with deadly ice, killed more than two dozen people, forced electric utilities to ration service, drove people to hoard food and burn their own furniture for heat, and cancelled flights. Well, most flights, anyway. The worst of the storm\u2019s fallout was felt on Monday; by Wednesday, some flights to Cancun were back on, even as many Texans still struggled without heat or power. Ted Cruz, the Canadian-born\u00a0Republican senator from the state, hopped onto one of those flights, where he was soon spotted<\/a> by eagle-eyed tweeters.\u00a0According to a statement by Cruz<\/a>, he did so because his two daughters had \u201casked to take a trip<\/a>\u201d with friends. \u201cWanting to be a good dad,\u201d the statement went on, \u201cI flew down with them and am flying back this afternoon.\u201d Setting aside how suspiciously hefty his luggage seemed for a single night abroad\u2014and ignoring reports\u00a0sourced to United Airlines<\/a>\u00a0confirming that Cruz bumped up his return flight from Saturday to Thursday morning\u2014defences of Cruz\u2019s mini-vacation were weakly nihilistic<\/a>. What good Cruz can do in Texas, anyway, they asked. He can\u2019t restore power. He isn\u2019t the governor. Why can\u2019t the man enjoy himself? Neither the answers to these questions, nor the blind partisanship behind them, are the point. The point is that elected leaders set examples. During turbulent times\u2014say, for example, a natural disaster bundled into a pandemic during an economic crisis\u2014nobody in power should be flying off to Cancun. Mexico will still be there in a year. Votes for Ted Cruz, on the other hand, may not.
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