After month-long trip to strange, foreign land, Ted Cruz returns to America

adambrickley | 10:51 PM on October 21, 2013

The Washington, D.C., establishment doesn’t much like Senator Ted Cruz, if you haven’t noticed, but tonight Cruz is making it known that the feeling is mutual. Slamming the broken political culture under the Capitol dome is nothing new for Cruz, but now that the Senate is in recess he’s taken arguably his best swipe yet, noting that it’s “good to be back in America!”

I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for each and every Texan. And your encouragement and prayers have meant so much.

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 22, 2013

We're all here because we're not willing to let this country go down the road it is currently going.

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 22, 2013

Thanks to your efforts, we have elevated in the national debate the nightmare, disaster, and train wreck that is Obamacare

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 22, 2013

People are frustrated because Washington isn't listening. We've got to give a voice to the American people and #MakeDCListen

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 22, 2013

The answers for this country aren't going to come from Washington. They are going to come from the men and women of America #MakeDCListen

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 22, 2013

For once, it’s good to see a politician who is more at home in his state than in the capital. In a world where ex-congressmen habitually become lobbyists and never go home, it’s reassuring that at least a few feel most comfortable far away from the Georgetown cocktail circuit.