Ted Cruz: President Obama runs America like a “corrupt dictator” not bound by the law

[TexasTowelie]

Sen. Ted Cruz compared America under President Obama to a corrupt dictatorship in which the chief executive decides which laws to follow and which to ignore. He cited the Obama administration delay of the employer mandate under the Affordable Health Care Act. He said the directive to ease deportation of immigrant parents and not to defend the federal ban on marijuana in states like Colorado and Washington that choose to legalize it were other examples of the president’s “consistent pattern of lawlessness.”

“If the president of the United States can simply pick and choose which laws to follow… we know what that looks like,” Cruz told small-government conservatives Friday. “There are countries on this globe where that is how the law works. You look at corrupt countries where the rule of law is meaningless, where dictators are in power and they have things they call law. But what does law mean?”

Cruz, who delivered an extended speech on the Senate floor against Obamacare and was a prime factor in last year’s government shutdown, told a conference of the Texas Public Policy Foundation he has not given up the fight to repeal the federal health care law. At a news conference afterwards, Cruz declined to say whether he would use upcoming budget battles in Congress to press the administration and potentially shut down government again. But he leveled a sharp critique against the Obama administration as an “extraordinary threat to the liberty of this country. A president who is not bound by the law is no longer a president. And if you love liberty that should concern you greatly.”

Phillip Martin, deputy director of the left-leaning Progress Texas, said Cruz’s opposition to Obamacare has hurt Texans, not helped them. “Ted Cruz’s temper tantrums cost taxpayers billions of dollars and did nothing for the 6 million Texans without health insurance,” he said.

More at http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2014/01/ted-cruz-obama-runs-america-like-a-corrupt-dictator-not-bound-by-the-law.html/ .

[muntrv]

1. In other words, Ted, he's acting like GW Bush.

[Thinkingabout]

2. Ted has his eye on the first dictatorship of the US. Ted might not be this stupid but he

Has his sheep following him. He is much too thin to believe.

[giftedgirl77]

3. Crazy little bastard...

He's already pushing for another full repeal of ACA. I just want to smack the shit out of him.

[rocktivity]

4. And President Bush didn't?

Or this have more to do with deflecting from "Governor Soprano" Christie?


rocktivity

[Vogon_Glory]

8. But IOKALAYAR, you know, so Dubya's behavior doesn't count n/t

[House of Roberts]

5. Where was Cruz when big business was whining about the employer mandate?

Why wasn't he calling them out as the crybabies they are, and telling them to suck it up and comply with the law?

He votes to cut federal budgets, then bitches about the way the DoJ prioritizes its cases.

Repealing Obamacare is still all about the Medicare tax on high incomes and increased capital gains taxes for the Koch Bros. and their ilk.

[jmowreader]

11. For him it's also about the Cadillac-plan tax

Which will hit him very severely. The Goldman, Sachs policy he's on is quite expensive.

[hobbit709]

6. If Obama really was doing this, then Cruz and his buddies would be at Gitmo.

[Vogon_Glory]

7. Little Teddy and the DREAMERS

Whenever I think of Ted Cruz, I think of him and the DREAMERS he'd like to deport.

Around 1970, a little guy named Rafael Edward Cruz was born in a Canadian hospital to a foreign-born father, and about five years later, his foreigner-father (Ted's father didn't become a US citizen until after 2000), took the boy across the US border to start life anew in the US.

Little Ted had little or no say as to where his papi or mami were going, just as the hundreds of thousands of DREAMERS brought across the US borders by their parents had little or no say as to where they were going.

Little Ted grew up American and was elected to the US Senate. Hundreds of thousands of DREAMERS also grew up American, but unlike little Ted, they aren't US citizens, and are subject to deportation.

Little Teddy, now all grown up and a US Senator, now wants to see those DREAMERS deported and sent back to where they were born.

Ted Cruz--what a piece of work!

[white cloud]

9. Good one! To bad it true

K&R

[Vogon_Glory]

10. Would To G*d That The Next Democrat Running Against Calgary Cruz...

Would to G*d that the next Democratic candidate running against Ted Cruz remembers to use barbs like this (I think a lot of this story would make a wonderfully barbed comic-book style pamphlet) when exposing Calgary Cruz to Texas Hispanics instead of tossing Victor Morales-type whiffle-balls at the current junior senator from Texas.