Posted on 01/10/2014 10:41:29 AM PST by upchuck
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, charged President Obama with a pattern of lawlessness on a breathtaking scale that he said even liberal Democrats will come to regret when a future president seeks to exercise similar unbridled power.
Cruz said Friday morning at the last day of the Texas Public Policy Foundations Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature that, from giving relief from departation to some young unauthorized immigrants to enforcement of drug laws to waiving rules for Obamacare, the president has acted by executive fiat in defiance of the rule of law.
We are a nation of laws and not men, said Cruz. If we had a system where a president can pick and choose what laws to follow at utter whim that is seriously dangerous.
Cruz said the liberal media refuses to accurately report the threat to liberty of the Obama presidency, and makes excuses for the presidents overreaches.
But, he said, If youre a liberal, if youre a Democrat, if youre a reporter for the New York Times, maybe youre saying, `hes my guy. I root for my guy. I dont like some of the things hes doing but hes basically my guy so hes OK.
But Cruz warned those with that mindset that they ought to contemplate that their guy aint gonna be there forever. If this president has that power so does the next one and the next one and the next one, and my message to all the Democrats and all the liberals is, what do you think about the next president, maybe a Republican, having the power Barack Obama has as a president who is not bound by the law?
If you love liberty, that should concern you greatly, said Cruz.
Why would a conservative President want to have closed door meetings with Democrat operatives in the press?
Walk this cat all the way back and one comes to the conclusion the Rats are not planning on allowing the Pubbies to come to power, ever. And they just might pull it off, if they can cook the voting rolls enough.
Half the GOP in Congress would probably support them too
nobody ever mentions constitutional elibility for potus anymore, is it now a dead issue?
Re Cruz, Rubio, Jindal, Schwarzeneger, Chester Arthur, etc.!!!
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My gosh, he may be the only elected official in the US that actually gets it.
Good for Cruz...
I don’t think Cruz is ineligible.
Arnold definitely is not.
apparent ly lotsa fols think he is NOT inelible...like buubba sez...what is IS!
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Too many of the GOPe are happy being a minority party. Robert Michel comes to mind.
The first thing that comes to my mind is that scene in an Al Capone movie where Capone is having a meeting with his “associates” and a baseball bat.
Agreed, but it will take a revolution to do what he wants..that’s his plan.
No, it won’t. Cruz will just rollback and repeal everything zero has done, and won’t have to campaign for it because the people will be demanding he do it. Should take a year or two at most.
Sorry Ted. That hasn't been true for a long time. The only reason people don't realize that this has essentially become a banana republic is because the American propaganda machine is more effective than anything else on the planet.
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