Ted Cruz Kicks Off the Obama-As-Dictator Movement

[n2doc]

It wasn't President Obama's State of the Union call for "opportunity for all" or new tools to help the unemployed that's gotten Republicans riled up: it was his declaration that he would "take steps without legislation" to solve the problems he thinks the country faces. That, according to Sen. Ted Cruz and others, is all but a declaration of dictatorship.

Cruz didn't wait to hear what Obama said during his speech on Tuesday night to draft his rebuttal, which ran in The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday morning. Pivoting off the president's declaration that he had "a pen and … a phone" with which to take action even when blocked by Congress, Cruz declared that the "president's persistent pattern of lawlessness" and push to work around Congress "should concern every citizen."

Most of Cruz's argument, as might have been predicted, centers on Obamacare, the fight that made Cruz's career. But he also isolates Obama's announcement that he would unilaterally raise minimum wages for federal workers, which Cruz mistakenly says happened on Monday. An "imperial presidency threatens the liberty of every citizen," Cruz writes in conclusion, "ecause when a president can pick and choose which laws to follow and which to ignore, he is no longer a president."

Cruz doesn't specifically call Obama a dictator, opting instead for a sort of "I'm not saying he's a dictator, but" route. National Review's Victor Davis Hanson doesn't do the same tip-toeing. "If Obama used to sigh to supporters that he was not a dictator who could just implement progressive agendas by fiat," Hanson writes, "he now seems to have done away with the pretense of regret." Hanson, who writes about the dictators of ancient history when he's not opining on modern politics, points out Obama's decision to emphasize children. "Note as well that Obama says he will bypass Congress for 'our kids.' Politicians usually cite the 'kids' when promoting something that is either illegal or unethical." Or when running for office or basically doing anything.

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[TexasTowelie]

1. Why can't we send Cruz back to Cuba

so he will know what a real dictator is like?

[Gothmog]

2. We need to send Carnival Cruz back to Canada

Cruz is still a Canadian citizen and he really should go back to his home

[treestar]

3. Funny he didn't see it that way 2001-2009

Hypocrite.

[sorefeet]

4. This would be a lot easier if

this were a dictatorship and I was the dictator. Don't the remember what bush said???

[n2doc]

5. I am 100% sure Cruz would approve of that, if he were to become President

I hope there is no chance of that happening.

[hobbit709]

6. If Obama really was a dictator, then Cruz would be in Cuba at Gitmo.

[Rex]

7. So Cruz outright admits that George Bush Jr. was a dictator while in office!