Ted Cruz stole one of his favourite jokes from a Canadian politician – The Globe and Mail
“What’s the difference between regulators and locusts?” the Texas senator asks. “You can’t use pesticide on the regulators.”
If that quip sounds familiar, it’s because it’s cribbed from former Alberta premier Ralph Klein. In 1990 Mr. Klein, then a first-term MLA from Calgary, described Edmonton: “A fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes.”
From: Ted Cruz stole one of his favourite jokes from a Canadian politician – The Globe and Mail
I am nowhere *NEAR* a Cruz apologist but, as jokes go, that joke strikes me as being much older than being from 1990.Report