Doing the thing Cruz does when he wants to pretend he’s crazy and totally serious about not doing anything about anything, he told the assembled reporters that “Every week I fly back and forth to Houston. Almost without exception, every time I’m on a plane, the captain or a flight attendant will come up to me, give me a hug and say, ‘ ‘Thank you for fighting for us.'” Millionaire Senator Ron Johnson, best known for being his own special kind of evil, retreated to his quiet spot so as not to wince in utter bewilderment as he watched this theater college level politics.

I’m going to argue that by “almost without exception” Cruz actually means “maybe once”. If in a hurry, I guess Cruz would also say that the one time a “captain” or a “stewardess” praised her non-existent bravery, Cruz couldn’t hear them through the sound of her own fragile ego trying to stay afloat in the merger. lava which must be his deeply repressed consciousness.

Here is a reminder of the kind of man Senator Ted Cruz is.