Cruz to 'Emperor' Obama: 'How Long Is That Madness of Yours Still to Mock Us?'

breitbart.com ^ | November 20, 2014

[Tailgunner Joe]

Thursday on the Senate floor Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) used the words of philosopher and politician Marcus Cicero who advocated to return to a Republican government after the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar died.

Cruz addressed the speech to President Obama using the words of Cicero saying:

The words of Cicero powerfully relevant 2,077 years later. When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now? Do not the nightly guards placed on the border, do not the watches posted throughout the city, does not the alarm of the people and the union of all good men and women, does not the precaution taken of assembling the senate in this most defensible place, do not the looks and countenances of this venerable body here present have any effect upon you?"

Do you not feel that your plans are detected? Do you not see that your conspiracy is already arrested and rendered powerless by the knowledge that everyone here possesses of it? What is there that you did last night, what the night before, where is it that you were? Who was there that you summoned to meet you, what designs was there which was adopted by you? With which you think that any one of us is unacquainted? Shame on the age and its lost principles.

[stormhill]

From the article:
Roman Emperor Julius Caesar...

Technical point, but Julius Caesar wasn't an Emperor; he was a Dictator.
Augustus was the first Emperor.

[Texan5]

Or the emperor Constantine III in 410 AD, making proclamations and fretting about his legacy as if he wasn’t aware that Alaric and his visigoths weren’t about to sack Rome...

[satan]

And how did they eventually get rid of Julius Caesar?

[Texan5]

Oops-Alaric and his visigoths WERE about to sack Rome...

[Dqban22]

Blacks are going to be the main collateral victims of Obama's anti-Black amnesty.

OBAMA’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL AMNESTY TO MIGRANTS THAT ARE LIVING ILLEGALLY IN THE U.S.A.

After destroying the best health care system in the world, Obama is determined to grant wide amnesty to foreigners living illegally in U.S. If Obama wants to make the U.S. into another banana republic, it seems he is well underway to reaching his goal.

The Republicans must make it perfectly clear that Obama has declared a merciless war against the American workers and the middle class of America. There are 92 million of able Americans out of the work force because they cannot find employment and Obama wants to legalize and give work permits to over 11 million illegal aliens allowing them to bring here the rest of their families. In other words, another 25 or 30 million that either will compete with Americans and legal immigrants searching for scarce jobs or are going to be added to welfare, bankrupting Medicaid and the food stamp system as well as ruining even more the quality of the public schools with the massive infuse of hundreds of thousands of children without speaking English to already overburdened schools systems.

Blacks are going to be the main collateral victims of Obama's anti-Black amnesty. Black Americans are already suffering higher unemployment since Obama took power. Obama’s new class of protected immigrants will take over their jobs and Blacks will be forced to share their welfare checks and food stamps with them

http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PR-Amnesty_Black_Employment_081114.html

[stormhill]

They voted with their daggers.
Caesar lost, I believe, 23 to nothing

[pepsi_junkie]

Thursday on the Senate floor Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) used the words of philosopher and politician Marcus Cicero who advocated to return to a Republican government after the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar died.

Julius Caesar was not an emperor. He marched on Rome, killed or subjugated his enemies and had himself declared dictator for life. In other words, a tyrant. Cicero hoped in vain that once the dictator was dead, the old way would be restored. But instead a new triumverate was established that eventually led to another civil war and finally to the first true emperor, Augustus.

In return for his desire for a return to republican government, Cicero was murdered by Marc Antony and his tongue and hands cut off and nailed to a post in the forum.

[mrsmith]

“The people DID get bread and circuses, though.”

The merchants ‘got’ bread.
It freed up consumers’ money to spend, and the merchants got addicted to that.
The circus became the dominant media outlet, in a position to insulate Bread and Circus’s survival against criticism.
The people got devastation.

[blueplum]

We alone, I say it openly, we the senate are waiting in our duty to stop this lawless administration and its unconstitutional amnesty. I yield the floor.

We need to move to close visa-driven immigration from all related hispanic nations. Because of the number of illegals already in the USA, if we uphold our percentage of annual visas per country-based system, it will take decades for hispanics to again be allowed legal visas. The hispanic coalitions know this so their way of dealing with a self-caused problem is to demand US policy be set aside for a more accommodating 'first-come, first-served' immigration policy that naturally gives preferential treatment to hispanics. Allowing unfettered immigration and preferential treatment will destroy the national identity of the USA the percentage system is designed to preserve. Racial tensions will increase as new arrivals continue to balkanize into segregated communities, each competing for government benefits, each demanding special rights (race-based police/city management hiring, etc) - exactly what our immigration policy is designed to prevent.

[CodeToad]

Unless he files articles of impeachment, we are wondering the same thing. Love ya, Ted, and I think you are in a position to be a great leader, but unless you actually do something you are no better than the person you bitch about.

[mrsmith]

Maybe, OTOH maybe states’ business interests would have forced through an amnesty long ago.

Hard to say.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

[rfreedom4u]

Senator Cruz can’t file articles of impeachment. Impeachment begins in the House. Upon a 2/3’s vote in the House to impeach it is then tried in the Senate. If 2/3’s of the Senate votes to convict only then can he be removed from office.

I just pray that it happens soon. But I’m not holding my breath.

[morphing libertarian]

Three steps:

Seek an injunction.

Withhold funding.

Start impeachment proceedings on Fast and Furious, Benghazi, IRS, and executive orders.

[Gritty]

B. Hussein Obama will go down in history as the worst, most corrupt President of all time.

If the line stopped here, you would be completely correct.

However, with the precedents he is setting and the Constitutional safeguards he is wholesale wrecking, a more evil (if possible?) President might follow him, one which would make Stalin look like a saint.

[TBP]

Too long.

[DoughtyOne]

You know folks, we are presented with the movie format where the good guy always has to have a villian to go up against.  He's not a full hero, until he puts that bad guy down.

I've got a feeling, Obama is our bad guy.  We won't be heros as citizens of this nation until we put the mad dog down.  Figuratively...


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[GeronL]

Ted Cruz rocks while other pubbies vacillate

[Defiant]

The lesson is, the time to fight an emperor is at the time he tries to take power. When the next one comes along, it will be too late.

[Pietro]

I've been ruminating lately that the era we live in closely resembles the last days of the Roman Republic.

Elections are meaningless and power is shared amongst those whose primary interest is their own power.

The Roman Senate allowed themselves to be transformed into a brothel.

The time for free men to step forward and reclaim our right grows short and soon we will be chattel in our own home.