Posted on 04/24/2015 3:49:58 PM PDT by VinL
snip... Cruz said those Republicans responsible for confirming Lynch and all the Democrats violated their oaths of office, since Lynch has guaranteed that she will uphold President Obama’s lawlessness, including especially his executive amnesty. Cruz said:
"I have been leading the fight to stop the confirmation of Loretta Lynch—and the reason is simple: Ms. Lynch came before the Senate Judiciary Committee and refused to articulate any constitutional limits whatsoever on the authority of the president. When asked how she would differ from Eric Holder, the most partisan attorney general this nation has ever seen, she refused to state even a single difference. I had wanted to support Ms. Lynch’s confirmation precisely because Eric Holder has so undermined the Department of Justice, and like many others I was eager to see a new attorney general sworn in. But the answers Ms. Lynch gave to the Senate Judiciary Committee over an extended period of questions refused to acknowledge any limits on the president’s power, and she made clear that she intended to be a rubber stamp for unlimited executive power in the hands of President Obama. In my view, no senator—Democrat or Republican—could vote to confirm Ms. Lynch consistent with his or her oath of office. Some say, confirming Loretta Lynch means Eric Holder is no longer Attorney General. But there is a difference. Eric Holder began disregarding the law and abusing his office after he was confirmed. Ms. Lynch looked senators in the eye and told us she intends to disregard the law. For senators to vote to confirm an attorney general in that circumstance means they are complicit in the lawlessness.
... I would note that some of the press had a field day that I was not physically present for the final confirmation vote. For two months...
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Exactly!
Just when I think he can’t get any better!
We have to stop $ from going to these creeps. If we start a national campaign to only send $ to actual candidates or serious conservative organizations, we can bleed them dry. I know they get corporate money yada yada but those dudes won’t want to go it alone.
Awesome graphic - worth 10,000 words.
Be on the lookout for Boehner, McCain, and Graham...
...crossing the line to enable illegal aliens inside the U. S.
Ted Cruz is the only candidate that deserves our vote.
Ted Cruz explains his reason for not being present for Lynch vote.
AMEN, Brother!
In my view, no senator -- Democrat or Republican -- could vote to confirm Ms. Lynch consistent with his or her oath of office.
Schlemeil and Schlemaziel, with McInsane on the left.
Hammer them, Ted! Hammer them until they never want to step in the ring again.
I’m with Ted on that one.
He is the only one that I will vote for. Either write in or check the box on the ballot.
“I would note that some of the press had a field day that I was not physically present for the final confirmation vote. For two months I led the fight to stop her confirmation. I voted against confirmation in the Senate and repeatedly questioned Ms. Lynch. I urged my colleagues in writing, in public, in private and on the national stage not to confirm Ms. Lynch. I flew back to Washington to cast the vote that mattered, the cloture vote, yesterday morning. That was the 60-vote threshold that could have stopped Ms. Lynch and I was there to cast that vote and I spoke on the Senate floor urging my colleagues to vote no. Once Republicans had invoked cloture, her confirmation was a done deal. The final vote was a 50-vote threshold and there were ample votes to confirm her. I had a scheduling conflict that did not enable me to be there for what was in the end a meaningless vote because leadership had already decided to give President Obama and Harry Reid what they wanted. So while I was not physically present, under Senate rules being absent is the same thing as a no vote.”
“The fight to defeat this nomination was on cloture, and Republican leadership did not want to fight that fight,” Cruz said.
“He is the only one that I will vote for. Either write in or check the box on the ballot.”
I’m pretty much with you on that.
Ditto, the choice is getting easier and easier by the day.
Cruz is the real deal and needs our support.
Ditto, all the way.
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