Ted Cruz: Obama Administration Is ‘Lawless’

News One ^ | Jan 12, 2014 | News One Staff

[SoConPubbie]

During an interview Sunday on FOX News, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who has been an outspoken critic of Obamacare, accused President Barack Obama of flouting the law during his time in the White House, reports The Hill.

“The pattern we’ve seen under President Obama, disregarding the law, is really one of the most troubling aspects of this presidency,” Cruz said. “When he disagrees with the law…he simply refuses to comply with it.”

Read more from The Hill:

Cruz’s remarks came as the Supreme Court prepares to hear a case Monday challenging a trio of contentious recess appointments the president made to the National Labor Relations Board. Lower courts have deemed them unconstitutional, and Senate Republicans have asked the high court to overturn them.

The recess appointments have been challenged because Obama became the first president to install nominees without a confirmation vote when the Senate was holding brief “pro forma” sessions explicitly intended to block recess appointments.

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Cruz contended Democrats made the move to “pack” courts with the president’s nominees who will “rubber-stamp the president’s lawlessness.”

“Democrats are very concerned about courts holding this administration accountable for their lawlessness,” Cruz continued.

Read more at The Hill.

As previously reported by NewsOne, Cruz urged conservative voters to hold Republicans “accountable” for caving and derailing efforts to defund the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).

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During an interview with National Review’s Robert Costa, Cruz lamented the “significant number” of Senate Republicans, led by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky),  who “actively, aggressively, and vocally led the effort to defeat House Republicans.”

“Once Senate Republicans did that, it crippled the chances of this effort, and it caused the lousy deal.” he told Costa.

Continuing on his “fool’s errand,” Cruz sent a sublimal shot to McCain, insinuating that his statement in opposition of holding the government ransom to defund Obamacare would never work:

“As with every decision elected officials make, the consequences of those decisions are up to the American people,” Cruz said. “But I will say this: from day one in office, I’ve urged the American people to hold every elected official accountable, and far too many elected officials are not listening to the American people… when you’ve got 10 to 20 Senate Republicans going on television, day after day after day, saying, ‘we cannot win, this is a fool’s errand, we will lose, nothing will happen, we will surrender,’ and blaming Republicans every step of the way, it eliminates the ability to get a positive outcome.”

[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[SoConPubbie]

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[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Lawless...

Understatement of the year, but nonetheless still spot on...

[hosepipe]

Ted Cruz: Obama Administration Is ‘Lawless’

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Well Duh!....................

[tcrlaf]

Only CRAZY PEOPLE and nutjobs would challenge the Imperial Edicts of the Emperor Obama. My TV says so...

[ZULU]

He is a right. That makes Obama a lawless criminal who needs to be prosecuted.

[Common Sense 101]

Hey... He’s the ONLY ONE SAYING IT!

[SpaceBar]

We now need to move on from the “stating the obvious” part.

[2001convSVT]

Lawless, silent coup, president Obama should be Impeached.

[Logical me]

Almost nothing can be done now. King Obama is America's first closet dictator. As a communist with black background and Muslim connections he has transformed America and I fear will never come back to a land governed by the Constitution. By the way, miss Romney yet? Some Americans put us in this dilemma and for petty reasons shot Romney down and got King Obama. Happy now?

[Red Badger]

2 Thessalonians 2:3 NIV

Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.

[Dick Bachert]

[forgotten man]

Everybody here already knows what McCain will say about this.

[Ditter]

I too, am pretty upset with those same independents and republicans who were so principled that they couldn't stoop to voting for Romney. I wonder how many of them regret it now.

[Paladin2]

Worse than lawless.

Traitors, domestic and foreign.

[veracious]

Glad to hear that Ted came around to my point of view(8

[BigEdLB]

We may not have been happy with everything Romney would have done domestically, but in foreign affairs we would not be in the mess we are in.

In respect to what Sen Cruz is talking about, Romney would have done the right thing.

[yoe]

Senator Cruz continues to tell "it like it is"...i.e., factually and honestly. He is not afraid to call Barack Obama what he is, a dangerous man. I will add to that and call Obama a deliberate disruptor, one who underestimates the enemy while diminishing the nations military, anti-American, anti-U.S.Constitution and clearly racist, like all little dictators...looting the nation of her wealth.......for aid to Muslim nations, both Obama and Holder break our laws and really don't care as long as it does not harm the American Negro.

Ted Cruz understands where we are headed...so listen to him....please.

[Le Chien Rouge]

1) Ted Cruz is a RAAAACCCIST!!!!

2) Ted Cruz: white,Hispanic, EXTREMIST,Right winged Senator from Homophobic, anti-reproductive rights Texas

3) Ted Cruz has failed to embrace all GOOD that is can come from the Federal Government.

....just a few of the comments we can expect to hear from our ‘friends’ in the MSM...

[Arm_Bears]

Indeed.

The spineless GOP “leadership” thinks they can tiptoe around Obama’s law-breaking and into House and Senate majorities later this year. By not performing their Constitutional role, however, they are complicit in the whole mess.

I don’t see anything coming from the Republicans in Washington that motivates me to pull the lever for them in NOV.