How many times did we have to hear that Ted Cruz, despite being the most despised Senator in Washington (and it’s not that close) was still one of the smartest Senators ever? And yet over and over, he kept doing the stupidest things and brought heaps of scorn upon himself!

We ask with all sincerity, after the year Ted has had, did he really need to court more negative news by hiring family members to prestigious and highly sought-after jobs? At any point, did it occur to Ted, “You know, I’ve had a pretty rough year and this would be a good opportunity to hire a few young men and women from less fortunate circumstances and give them a leg up? That might actually be nice of me.

Yes, he probably did have that thought and chased it away in favor of hiring family, in a barely legal move (we hope that’s the only time we use that phrase as applied to Ted, we keep going back and forth with Gaetz). According to Salon:

Insider reported that the longtime conservative provocateur — whose mission in recent weeks has been to stonewall dozens of President Joe Biden’s nominees to key State Department posts, despite their qualifications — recently hired two of his first cousins’ children, one as a press assistant and another as an intern.

Both are incredibly sought-after positions in the world of politics, with Cruz’ family members winning out over what were likely hundreds, if not thousands, of other applicants.

Advocacy groups don’t like “the appearance” of impropriety:

“We expect our elected officials to act with integrity and to be mindful of how the taxpayer’s money is being spent,” said Virginia Canter, chief ethics counsel at another watchdog group, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. “It looks like basically the taxpayer is subsidizing the training of his relatives.”

To which, of course, Ted’s office attacked… the media. Because, of course, and reasons.

“Attacking two young Baylor graduates, for working as an unpaid intern and as a junior staffer, is exactly the kind of political slime job that makes people so disgusted with the corrupt corporate media,” she wrote. “As the experts you spoke to all agreed, the law is clear, and the senator has appropriately met all of his legal and ethics requirements and is in complete compliance.”

Ted just refuses to learn, no matter how smart he might purportedly be.

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