If you find a politician you agree with 100% of the time, chances are that 1 of you is lying. Either the politician is lying to you or worse, you're lying to yourself.
Count me as a Cruz voter.
Posted on 05/08/2015 8:26:49 AM PDT by Jack Black
As many of you know, I'm a big fan of Ted Cruz, but when he does something wrong, it's important to call him on it. In this case he, along with Marco Rubio and Rand Paul, voted for a bill that will effectively allow the President to lift sanctions on Iran.
Normally, here's how treaties work: the President negotiates a treaty with another country, like the deal he is negotiating with Iran over its nuclear weapons development. Once the treaty is negotiated, it's submitted to the Senate. Two thirds of the Senate has to vote to approve, or ratify, the treaty. If two thirds do not support it, it is not binding.
But the bill the Congress sent to the President turns things on its head. It will allow the President to lift sanctions on Iran, and unless Congress objects with a 2/3 vote within 30 days, the President's actions are allowed to stand. See the reversal? Formerly, the President needed a 2/3 vote to act, and now the Congress needs a 2/3 vote to stop him from acting. And be assured the Democrats will never let the Republicans get that many votes.
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Cruz theme article for the list.
It’s a good thing that I knew that Cruz, as a fallible mortal and even more, as a politician, was bound to disappoint before it was over. I never put that much faith in any politician, so I’m never disappointed. Even so, out of all the viable choices currently declared, I’ll still vote for him. Unless he does something really egregious on one of my priority issues, one being illegal immigration, and another being sodomite “marriage”.
On the surface it makes no sense. I’d want to know why, because frankly it is NOT in character for Ted Cruz.
Maybe the rationale is: we want to at least put Obama in SOME kind of explicit legal reins that even short attention span America will notice. And if the Democrats of Congress fail to let them work like they should, they will catch the heat of the voters.
But it would seem easier to say nix, the legal status quo is enough. Let us all pray for wisdom to apply, as it commonly does with Ted Cruz. The best move in an era of intense Calvinball is not always apparent till it has played out.
Also... it is not perfectly clear to me how any bill can override the Constitution.
These issues are symptomatic of a larger spiritual problem that no amount of secular politics can fix.
That is the truth. And I have to remind myself, when things look darkest, that the Bible foretold all this, it will get even worse before it gets better, but to use that silly flippant phrase-”God wins, in the end”.
I’ll wait to pass judgment on him until he has a chance to explain his position.
America has her first dictator in the form of The Won. What Constitution are you talking about?
The question of us, is how much concentration will we put into embracing the Winner. It’s not even about morals and values voting. The best civic behavior would not suffice to prevail if God were not at the center of the people’s hearts. Perhaps better honest sin than hypocrisy. Sin, you can urge people to turn from, to God, and the issue is clear. Hypocrisy, it requires digging deeper to address.
That’s kind of a good point.
There is something else going on here. Did they vote this way to have more control over what Obama is doing? They did not make this decision willy-nilly. More research is required, not knee-jerk reactions.
But again, he can only dictate as far as his commands are accepted.
I think his reign has revealed the extent of the civic idolatry in our hearts, and it is huge. That is why we are so reluctant to blow a whistle “STOP!” in the face of Big Ears.
Oh everyone grow up
Cruz knows procedure and he expects to use it
He wants to debate this when it comes up
When everyone figures out that we need a candidate who doesn’t depend on headlines then the press will lose it’s power over the masses with these headlines
Cruz has been working very hard on going against this
Follow him. Not what the news headlines him with
You want Hilary in there? Heck she’s got Iranian sympathizer a on her staff
INDEED!!!
It is bizarre, given his previous statements against the proposed treaty, and his pathetic excuse ("I voted yes on final passage because it may delay, slightly, President Obama’s ability to lift the Iran sanctions and it ensures we will have a Congressional debate on the merits of the Iran deal.").
Given the number of House GOP turncoats, who gang-raped their campaign promises to constituents, Ted Cruz needs to seriously explain himself, and publicly apologize for his vote. Cruz is going to have to understand, with traitors filling every rathole branch of the federal government, even his words and actions will be reviewed and examined under a microscope by conservatives.
He already has explained his position
You don’t think the press will carry it, do you?
He has a website
Ugh. My hair hurts
Does anyone think Ted Cruz is stupid or corrupt about anything? About Iran? About the media? About Obama? About politics? The constitution?
Cruz, Rubio and Paul fought this measure procedurely, at first... but then voted for it on final passage. Totally inexplicable. And totally wrong, from a policy and constitutional perspective.
Someone's wrong.
Let's pray and watch. It does look like God is helping Cruz and it could show. The big player in this game is not Cruz. It is God.
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