Even Texas may not be big enough for four favorite sons in 2016

At his own session at the Texas Tribune Festival on Saturday, Cornyn was asked about the Texans who are thinking about running in 2016.

Cornyn did not name Cruz, but it was hard to miss what he was suggesting about his Senate colleague when he posited: “Maybe the experience we’ve seen with President Obama — who moved quickly through the Senate without actually serving a full term as senator, then running for president — and the deficit in his own resume when it came to actually running a state like governors do is something the voters will weigh in their minds.”

Cornyn also said he blamed Cruz, “among others,” for a 2013 government shutdown that “didn’t turn out so well. What people want is for the government to function and not to throw temper tantrums and say we’re not going to play ball.”