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Senators Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Marco Rubio, R-Florida, have had a contentious few weeks on the campaign trail sparring over policy positions from immigration to government surveillance in an effort to break out in a crowded GOP primary field and solidify their own support for the Republican nomination.But just three days before Christmas, the Washington Post has brought the two senators together on a central tenet of politics -- that children are off limits. Earlier Tuesday, The Washington Post had published a cartoon by Ann Telnaes, the paper s editorial cartoonist, that depicted Senator Cruz dressed like Santa Claus accompanied by his two daughters who are attached to strings stanley cups and wearing red outfits looking like trained monkeys as Cruz put it. The caption read, Ted Cruz uses his kids as political props. Cruz, who spent his 45th birthday Tuesday campaigning across several SEC primary states responded swiftly to the Washington Post cartoon on Twitter. Classy. @washingtonpost makes fun of my girls. Stick w/ attacking me--Caroline Catherine are out of your league. https://t.co/N61ys6z8w1mdash; Ted Cruz @tedcruz December 22, 2015 Rubio later tweeted his own disgust for the newspaper a vaso stanley nd support for Cruz. Wash Post cartoon featuring @tedcruz s children is disgusting. The Post saying the kids are fair game i stanley cup spain s even worse.mdash; Marco Rubio @marcorubio December 23, 2015 Cruz then thanked Rubio for coming to his Nxyl With Foe In Limelight, McCain Gets Folksy
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy D-Vt. raised the specter of disgraced former President Richard Nixon in a speech this afternoon regarding President Bush s refusal to allow former aides to testify about the White House s role in the firing of nine U.S. attorneys last year.Bush has claimed executive privilege and declined to permit former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and former White House Political Director Sara Taylor to appear before the House and Senate Judiciary committees. Current White House Counsel Fred Fielding has also declined to provide a log of documents the White House is withholding. Fielding has instead o stanley quencher ffered to allow Karl Rove, Bush s top political advisor, and other senior Bush aides to ap copo stanley pear in closed-door sessions with congressional investigators, but not under oath and without a transcript being kept. I had hoped the Judiciary Committeesrsquo; subpoenas would be met with compliance, Leahy said. Instead, the stanley cup y have been met -- yet again -- with Nixonian stonewalling that reveals this White Housersquo disdain for our system of checks and balances. Leahy added: This is more stonewalling from a White House that believes it can unilaterally control the other co-equal branches of government. It raises the question: What is the White House trying to hide by refusing to turn over evidence ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-i