{"id":4092,"date":"2015-06-03T19:26:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T02:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4092"},"modified":"2015-06-03T19:29:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T02:29:45","slug":"hypocritical-oaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4092","title":{"rendered":"Hypocritical Oaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when Hurricane Sandy devastated the East Coast back in 2012, killing 117 people and causing an estimated 65 billion dollars in damage.\u00a0 Millions of people were left in need of federal assistance to recover. But fortunately for conservative Republicans, a brash young tea party hellcat named <a title=\"How the hell can Ted Cruz support Texas flood relief after telling Hurricane Sandy victims to rot?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/05\/28\/1388510\/-How-the-hell-can-Ted-Cruz-support-Texas-flood-relief-after-telling-Hurricane-Sandy-victims-to-rot#\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Cruz voted against a disaster relief bill for victims of the horrendous storm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to this past week and <a title=\"Cruz supports federal relief for Texas floods; voted against Hurricane Sandy funding\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/wp\/2015\/05\/29\/cruz-supports-federal-relief-for-texas-floods-voted-against-hurricane-sandy-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Cruz is demanding President Obama and congress provide disaster relief for the victims of the recent calamitous flooding in Texas which claimed 15 lives<\/a>. Remember, Ted Cruz is running for president so he has to appear to his fellow Texans like he gives a damn about them. If he keeps this up, he&#8217;ll out flip-flop Spiff Romney.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4097\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4097\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=4097\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4097\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4097\" title=\"tedcruztexasfederalrelief\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tedcruztexasfederalrelief.jpg\" alt=\"Teabagger patriot, climate change denier, staunch anti-socialist and smuggest Senator alive, Ted Cruz, proclaims that despite being against federal assistance for disaster victims, President Obama should send federal aid to Texas flood victims because...you know...Ted Cruz wants to be president.\" width=\"500\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tedcruztexasfederalrelief.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tedcruztexasfederalrelief-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teabagger patriot, climate change denier, staunch anti-socialist and smuggest Senator alive, Ted Cruz, proclaims that despite being against federal assistance for disaster victims, President Obama should send federal aid to Texas flood victims because...you know...Ted Cruz wants to be president.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when Hurricane Sandy devastated the East Coast back in 2012, killing 117 people and causing an estimated 65 billion dollars in damage.\u00a0 Millions of people were left in need of federal assistance to recover. But fortunately for conservative Republicans, a brash young tea party hellcat named Ted Cruz voted against a disaster relief bill &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4092\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hypocritical Oaf&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,8,68,85,3,198],"tags":[22,684,147,1121,1124,1123,9,21,43,98,596,235,1122,188,19,47,48,784,693,1125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4092"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4105,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions\/4105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}