UH OH! Ted Cruz kicked a Resistance hornet's nest HARD by mentioning this name at the Kavanaugh hearing

Doug P. Follow @thepowersthatbe

Sep 05, 2018 4:22 PM September 05, 2018 4:22 PM

During Ted Cruz’s round of questioning of SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the Texas senator brought the name of a certain former nominee:

OMG CRUZ JUST SAID GARLAND

— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) September 5, 2018

Ted Cruz notes that #Kavanaugh has voted in agreement with Merrick Garland on the DC Circuit 93 percent of the time.

— Stephanie Mencimer (@smencimer) September 5, 2018

Sen. Ted Cruz compares the record of Merrick Garland, Obama's Supreme Court nominee, to that of Brett Kavanaugh pic.twitter.com/waA2H4MhPG

— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) September 5, 2018

Uh oh, get under something heavy and hold on!

https://twitter.com/robin_black/status/1037427532059037696

of course ted cruz is going to compare kavanaugh to garland WHO THEY NEVER HELD A HEARING FOR without any sense of irony. Leave it to Ted Cruz to make a stupid and pointless point without any sense of history or context. #StopKavanaugh

— Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) September 5, 2018

How dare Ted Cruz bring up Merrick Garland.

— Matt Murphy (@MattMurph24) September 5, 2018

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Ted Cruz is using Kavanaugh's record of agreement with Merrick Garland to defend Kavanaugh's nomination.

THE NERVE.

— Michael Kremer (@m_j_kremer) September 5, 2018

How dare Ted Cruz bring up Merrick Garland in his "interview" of Judge Kavanaugh?!

— Jennette Yates (@tandjnam) September 5, 2018

Was anybody else outraged when Tad Cruz had the audacity to bring up Chief Justice Merrick Garland in this suspect hearing when didn’t even meet the man? He did this to give Kananaugh cover saying Kavanaugh and Merrick voted the same 90+ % of the time. Disgusting! pic.twitter.com/wbngN771jK

— anna everett (@anna_everett) September 5, 2018

Ted Cruz needs to keep Merrick Garland's name out his ??? mouth.

— CleverUserName (@almostastute) September 5, 2018

Really Ted Cruz??? You invoke Garland’s name? The guy you wouldn’t even give a hearing to?!?!

Seriously?!!

— Kimba Fuzz (@kimbafuzz) September 5, 2018

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