John McCain openly mocks presidential candidate Ted Cruz

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/21/1379220/-John-McCain-openly-mocks-presidential-candidate-Ted-Cruz

He may be a presidential candidate, but at this point fellow senators are openly mocking Sen. Ted Cruz. Cruz has been telling supporters that he's been "pressing" Sen. John McCain to hold hearings on gun restrictions on military bases (Cruz is ag'in em, obviously.) That's news to McCain, who takes the opportunity to lay into Cruz just for the fun of doing it.

“I was fascinated to hear that because I haven’t heard a thing about it from him. Nor has my staff heard from his staff,” McCain said of Cruz (R-Texas). “It came as a complete surprise to me that he had been pressing me. Maybe it was some medium that I’m not familiar with.” [...]

McCain went to great lengths to ridicule Cruz for suggesting the two had discussed the issue. He joked that perhaps Cruz was bouncing messages off the “ozone layer.”

“Maybe it was through, you know, hand telegraph. Maybe sign language,” McCain said. “Ask him how he communicated with me because I’d be very interested. Because who knows what I’m missing.”

That is not really the sort of soundbite you want to have hurled your way if you are trying to boost your presidential gravitas, but the anger most of his fellow senators hold towards Cruz, thanks to Cruz's repeated efforts to make them take rotten votes and support stupid things (see: shutdown) is probably not soothed in the slightest by Cruz now imagining himself worthy of even higher office.