Senator Ted Cruz of Texas was recently taken to task by Katy Tur of MSNBC for the fact that he is seeking federal aid for Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, but yet he was opposed a federal spending bill in response to Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Supposedly, this is some great hypocrisy, as Cruz routinely rails against the overspending in Washington. He wasn’t willing to vote for federal aid when a huge storm hit the Northeast in 2012, but here he is mustering support for federal aid when a huge storm hits Texas in 2017. Cruz provides a reasonable explanation for his position at that time, however. He explained that “the problem with that particular bill was that it became a $50 billion bill that was filled with unrelated pork. Two-thirds of that bill had nothing to do with Sandy.” This claim was met with all the requisite “fact checks” that the mainstream media like to rely upon, including FactCheck.org’s assessment that Cruz is...(Read Full Article)