Wacko birds and patronizing freshmen: Ted Cruz responds to McCain and Feinstein
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, ruffling feathers in both parties, is taking a sticks-and-stones approach.
On Fox News this afternoon, he responded to Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s assessment that he was arrogant and patronizing toward her at a committee hearing over the assault weapons ban, and to Arizona Sen. John McCain’s comment that he is one of the “wacko birds” of the tea party right.
“Listen, other Senators can choose to hurl whatever insults they would like my direction, I have no intention of reciprocating. Twenty-six million people in Texas expect me to come here every day and represent them and in particular to raise the sorts of questions that I raised at that hearing which is what are the limits of the Constitution. I have got to tell you there are a lot of politicians in Washington both Democrats and Republicans who have lost sight of the Constitutional limitations,” Cruz said of Feinstein.
As to whether he is breaching the decorum of deference expected of a newcomer to the Senate, he said: “Well I think there are several other Senators who have decided to insult me personally and my consistent pattern is I am not going to do the same, they can throw any insults they want. My focus has been and will remain on the substance.”
More at http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2013/03/wacko-birds-and-patronizing-freshmen-ted-cruz-responds-to-mccain-and-feinstein.html/ .
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