WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) blasted his Democratic colleagues in the Senate on Thursday, telling reporters, "I'm sick and tired of people blaming George W. Bush for things he did."

In the aftermath of the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on torture, Cruz said, "Democrats have been busy with their favorite game again: bringing up catastrophic things that President Bush did and then blaming him for them."

The Texas Senator raised the invasion of Iraq as an example of something that "Bush gets blamed for simply because he did it."

"Just because President Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq, costing thousands of lives and trillions of dollars, does that mean he should bear the blame for it?" he asked.

“America is not a place where you get blamed for things simply because they never would have happened unless you did them.”

He urged each of his Democratic colleagues "to look in the mirror and ask yourselves whether you want to be blamed for disasters you have personally created? In my case, the answer is a resounding ‘no.’"