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David!

Barried in the Ted Cruz Cancun scandal, was this fact?

Ted Cruz's dog is named Snowflake.

Snowflake, what I want to know is, is that the best detail you've read in a new story

since we found out Gary Hart went on a boat called Monkey Business?

Oh man, well I mean Ted Cruz's own boat I think is called National Ambition so that's

pretty bad too.

Snowflake works on a lot of different levels.

I mean that was really just one of the core dog being left alone in the freezing temperatures.

But that is just a wonderful, wonderful name for a dog, especially for a right-wing politician

who's disappointing the entire world.

I think National Ambition sprung a leak this week.

No, but that is, and then the four-learn picture of the dog just gazing out of the door

of the Cruz estate.

I just don't know, you know, sometimes again, the whole idea of just Ted Cruz going to

Cancun was a seemingly ridiculously irresistible to perfect-for-word story.

But then the fact that there was also a dog buried within it.

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