Remember when Senator Ted Cruz would fall asleep in the middle of a presidential address? Those were the good old days, man.
Instead, the proud Texan, who once vacationed in Cancun while his citizens shivered in the worst blizzard the state has ever seen, is back to his “mansplaining” ways, this time hogging the microphone during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Cruz launched a rage tantrum after Senator Jon Ossoff, the committee’s first-time chair, informed him that his time had run out during his questioning of District Court Judge Gustavo Gelp. Cruz used his cross-examination time to misstate a question posed by fellow Senator Mazie Hirono before circling back to the GOP’s strange obsession with overturning Roe v. Wade. Gelp was just nominated by President Biden to serve on the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, and Cruz used his cross-examination time to misstate a question posed by fellow Senator Mazie Hirono before circling back to the GOP’s weird obsession with overturn.
Cruz was curious in Gelp’s thoughts on originalism, which is the practice of interpreting the Constitution in accordance with its original intent. Cruz clearly supports originalism, and in an attempt to undermine support for the pro-choice verdict, he mischaracterized Hirono’s view on the subject. The Cancun travel advisor pitched a hissy fit when Ossoff cut him off after Cruz asked his final question, signaling that his time was up.
“You know this is a committee where we’ve had a little bit of comity and I recognize that Sen. Ossoff is new, but generally we don’t have the chairman trying to jump in 30 seconds in,” Cruz said as Ossoff and others continued to remind him he no longer held the floor. He went on to claim that Ossoff “desperately does not want these questions answered” before Hirono, who’s had more experience sparring with the smirking possum, decided to definitely shut down his spotlight-hogging schtick.
“I would ask that Sen. Cruz not misstate what I’m saying and, you know what, all this mansplaining — please stop,” she chimed in. “The thing with my colleague is, he always has to get the last word in. That is a fact.”
