Posted on 06/10/2015 5:38:52 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
Ted Cruz would spend his first day in office trying to undo some of Barack Obama’s biggest achievements via executive order.
In a wide-ranging interview about how he’d spend his first 100 days as president if he won, the Texas GOP senator pledged to roll back more than just the president’s controversial orders related to immigration.
“If you live by the pen, you die by the pen,” Cruz said by phone Tuesday, as he traveled from Dallas to an afternoon tour of the Southern border. “Everything put in place by executive order can be undone by executive order.”
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Day 1 and 2 should consist of a comprehensive list of obozo’s XOs with “XO nnnn is hereby repealed.”
Every single one.
Don’t forget the tens of thousands of pages of regulations his stooges at the alphabet agencies have put in place.
Day three. Investigate every person fired from the military or reduced in rank. Evaluate whether there was a real cause or if it was political. Reverse where required.
I LIKE this interview!
I was just thinking about that
For example, the department of education- they should ONLY be charged with collecting data and making a report to The President on how the education is going in each state. NOT making rules the states must obey.
Same thing with the EPA - Gather knowledge and make accurate reports on the health of the environment. NO RULE MAKING AUTHORITY.
Congress makes law - here’s one: “Do not pollute”.
That is so much simpler than 20,000 new pages of ‘regulations’ each year.
I want to see his speech at the inagral consist of him standing there, reading the name of the EO Obama signed and repealing it, one by one, not stopping until they are all done.
End of speech.
That would be a rousing speech ;’)
No. The Department of Education needs to be abolished YESTERDAY!
In 2010, Barack Obama called for fixing the public education system by giving us the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and “Race to the Top,”
which he said would fix the education system already fixed by the 2001 GW Bush and Ted Kennedy legislation called “No Child Left Behind,”
which was supposed to fix a system supposedly already fixed by a 1994 piece of federal legislation called “Goals 2000,”
which was supposed to fix a system already fixed by “America 2000,”
which was a 1991 response during the Bush administration to a 1983 federal report on education called “A Nation at Risk,
which was published a full four years after Jimmy Carter first fixed the nation’s public school system by establishing a cabinet-level Department of Education in 1979.
One of the most important things a president Cruz could do is to work with congress to limit presidential, bureaucratic, and judicial power across the board. This is by far the most important things he could do, which is not just to slash the size and scope of the federal government, but to box it in to a permanent lower level of involvement in the nation’s affairs.
And this can get dramatic.
For example, the *one*, single direct interaction with individual citizens the federal government is *permitted* in the constitution, is *just* “an actual enumeration” of how many citizens there are. A single number. No more data that that. And that is it. Under *no* other circumstances does the federal government have *any* authority to *directly* involve itself with our lives.
Everything else must go through the states. The states protect the citizenry from the federal government, and because of the 14th Amendment, if the states are oppressing the citizenry, the federal government can intervene to make them stop.
This should be president Cruz’s first and most important axiom for what the federal government should be and does.
So how much of the federal government violates this rule? 30%? 50%?
By all accounts he is a brilliant legal mind. So let him have a thought problem of how to eliminate the two justifications used in the 20th Century to create giant government: the Interstate Commerce Clause, and the General Welfare Clause. Neither of which were ever intended to be used for what they are being used for.
Hopefully he will choose brilliant and conservative minds to fill perhaps two seats in the Supreme Court as well.
Every single one. Could not agree more.
>>Don’t forget the tens of thousands of pages of regulations his stooges at the alphabet agencies have put in place.<<
Followed by the disillusions of those agencies.
Any POTUS who cuts the alphabet soup Federal government, even by as little as 10% (HUD, DOE — pick one) will be hailed forever as a hero.’
Don't think he can undo Bozo's pardons.
No, he can't do that.
Actually, a presidential pardon can be reversed. It's not done very often, but it is perfectly legal according to the courts. Bush reversed a pardon that he had announced a day earlier. Grant revoked two pardons issued by Andrew Johnson, an action that was challenged in court, but the court sided with Grant. Some last-day-in-office pardons have been reversed by the new president, but the order took too long, and no attempt was made to re-imprison the pardoned individual.
Absolutely right. I would be murderous in my destruction of Liberal policies implemented by that unqualified ignorant bastard.
Work with this Congress?
It's easy enough to do. Create an executive order that says "Executive Orders xxxxx through yyyyy are hereby repealed" where xxxxx is the number of Obama's first EO and yyyyy is the number of his last one.
I’d like to see a blanket repeal of all new FedGov regulations issued between January 20, 2009 and January 20, 2017.
I’d like to see a hiring slowdown in which (other than active military) each federal agency was limited to one new hire for every three people who leave.
I’d like to see entire agencies and departments eliminated, including the Department of Education, the Department of Commerce, and ... um ... whatever.
I’d like to see all efforts at redistributing wealth scrubbed from federal law and from the federal regulatory structure.
I’d like to see most federal gun laws repealed, including the restrictions on silencers, as a step toward repealing all the other gun laws. I’d like to see BATFE disbanded, along with Homeland Security because they are not assigned an appropriate mission - that should be the FBI’s job.
But, he isn’t a real conservative....he voted for TPA. He supports Hb-1 Visas. How can this be? Woe is me!
There, fixed it for the trolls
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