One of the fundamental problems [attributes] modern

Republicans have need more of is their irrational hatred

[historically justified mistrust] for the federal government.
Traditionally, conservatives have been skeptical about the
governments ability to solve peoples problems but never
opposed to its existence. Fast forward to the 21st century,
and conservatism has morphed into a radical [is as it always
has been:] an anti state [statist], pro corporate [individual
liberty] ideology that operates on the basis that government
is always wrong, no matter the situation [when it meddles
in things in which it has no business].
That is until [always true, especially when] the federal
government is needed.
The sight of Texas Senator Ted Cruz, one of the most
radical [effective] anti state [statist] conservatives, begging
[properly requisitioning] the federal government for
assistance after his state was subjected to severe flooding,
was truly pathetic [appropriate]. Said Cruz:
There are a series of federal statutory thresholds that have
to be satisfied. Initially, it appears those thresholds are
likely to be satisfied by the magnitude of the damage were
seeing, Democrats and Republicans in the congressional
delegation will stand as one in support of the federal
government meeting its statutory obligations to provide the
relief to help the Texans who are hurting.

Cruzs mind blowing hypocrisy [absolutely reasonable and

customary request] was made all the more obscene
[completely irrelevant to] when you take into account [the
fact] that this was the same Tea Party Senator who voted
against federal aid for victims of Hurricane Sandy [$60
Billion of government pork masquerading as a federal aid
bill for victims of Hurricane Sandy], because he deemed
much of the spending to be wasteful. The lesson is clear
screw [help] the rest of the country when they need help
[and dont use a tragedy to try to score a $40B slush fund to
bail out your buddies at the NFIP, see
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/01/hurricane
-sandy-relief-bill-and-bloated-deficit-spending ], but rescue
Texas. And to be sure, Texas needs rescuing a lot, being the
number one recipient of federal disaster relief aid
[according to one completely discredited analysis by
another left-wing propaganda site, americanprogress.org,
click the link and see for yourself].
Dont expect any of these inconvenient facts to trouble
Cruz and the radical anti [federal] government [excess]
loons patriots in Texas hypocrisy is now [has always
been] an inbuilt facet of Republican [Democrat] ideology,
so much so that no one pays it much attention any more
[that unfortunately far too many people are ignorant of].
Just as Mitt Romney was able to campaign on an anti
Obamacare platform in 2012 despite rolling out the exact
same [a completely different] program in Massachusetts
[which Democrats misrepresented as being the same,

counting on the fact that their moronic constituents

wouldnt be able to tell the difference between a repealable
experiment at the state level, and a permanent federal
entitlement], Republicans [Democrats] couldnt give a
damn what the public thinks. As long as they are hurling
enough mud at Democrats [Republicans]for being socialists
[anti-government] no one seems to notice their
constant raids on public money.
One of the most hilarious examples of this was Newt
Gingrich, another radical anti-state corporatist who spent
his entire career attacking federal subsidies while making
his district in Cobb County, GA one of the biggest
recipients of federal subsidies than virtually every other
suburban county in the country. Amazingly, politicians like
Cruz and Gingrich go about their business like anti gay
pastors secretly sleeping with male escorts. [Some
paragraphs are just such an irrelevant, steaming pile of BS
they cant be edited into anything resembling a cogent
argument on the topic. They can only be stricken
completely]
Cruz is technically right, the federal government does have
statutory obligations to provide relief to Texans regardless
of their rampant opposition to federal aid [abuse]. So as
usual, free loading Texas [as the second biggest State payer
into the federal income tax system] gets to have its cake
and eat it [what it should have in a reasonable society
without any grousing from people trying to score cheap
political points].