Posted on 01/15/2014 12:19:58 PM PST by SoConPubbie
During an interview Sunday on FOX News, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who has been an outspoken critic of Obamacare, accused President Barack Obama of flouting the law during his time in the White House, reports The Hill.
“The pattern we’ve seen under President Obama, disregarding the law, is really one of the most troubling aspects of this presidency,” Cruz said. “When he disagrees with the law…he simply refuses to comply with it.”
Read more from The Hill:
Cruz’s remarks came as the Supreme Court prepares to hear a case Monday challenging a trio of contentious recess appointments the president made to the National Labor Relations Board. Lower courts have deemed them unconstitutional, and Senate Republicans have asked the high court to overturn them.
The recess appointments have been challenged because Obama became the first president to install nominees without a confirmation vote when the Senate was holding brief “pro forma” sessions explicitly intended to block recess appointments.
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Cruz contended Democrats made the move to “pack” courts with the president’s nominees who will “rubber-stamp the president’s lawlessness.”
“Democrats are very concerned about courts holding this administration accountable for their lawlessness,” Cruz continued.
Read more at The Hill.
As previously reported by NewsOne, Cruz urged conservative voters to hold Republicans “accountable” for caving and derailing efforts to defund the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
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During an interview with National Review’s Robert Costa, Cruz lamented the “significant number” of Senate Republicans, led by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky), who “actively, aggressively, and vocally led the effort to defeat House Republicans.”
“Once Senate Republicans did that, it crippled the chances of this effort, and it caused the lousy deal.” he told Costa.
Continuing on his “fool’s errand,” Cruz sent a sublimal shot to McCain, insinuating that his statement in opposition of holding the government ransom to defund Obamacare would never work:
“As with every decision elected officials make, the consequences of those decisions are up to the American people,” Cruz said. “But I will say this: from day one in office, I’ve urged the American people to hold every elected official accountable, and far too many elected officials are not listening to the American people… when you’ve got 10 to 20 Senate Republicans going on television, day after day after day, saying, ‘we cannot win, this is a fool’s errand, we will lose, nothing will happen, we will surrender,’ and blaming Republicans every step of the way, it eliminates the ability to get a positive outcome.”
Outright criminal. Which is the only way he cram his buddies into seats of power.
He needs to be stopped.
Yep!!
Don’t you remember how Romney laid down for Obama at the last two elections and tried to just run out clock ln the final days before the election? You can’t blame anyone but Romney for that.
…The Senate panel report also dove extensively into what went wrong at the U.S. mission in Benghazi before the attack. The committee determined the attack was “preventable” and the administration failed to respond to “ample” warnings that security was deteriorating before Sept. 11, 2012.
The report faulted the State and Defense departments. It also cited the failure of the Obama administration to “bring the attackers to justice.”
Let us not forget the man’s own son telling the world that Dad didn’t REALLY want to be President anyway.
I still have to wonder why people who bitch daily about RINOs and the damage they do continue to defend a guy more left wing than any RINO now in office.
As for the evils of Obama, it’s simple. The RINOs now in office who are more conservative by EVERY available metric than Romney, have the power to stop Obama in his tracks. They refuse to use it. Inn fact, when Cruz tried to, they fought and mocked him.
Putting a more lib idiot in power would solve that? It would have fixed that? Electing the guy who gave his own money to fund dead babies via planned barrenhood, said he would be better than Ted Kennedy for the gays, avoided military like the plague, invented Romney care....THAT GUY was gonna save us from Obama? He WAS Obama.
What really gets me is the religious people who still ride that horse. Lets see...”Please God, I am praying to you that you help the guy described above become leader of the christian world.”
Gee...wonder why their prayers were ignored.
Cruz just simply continues saying all the right things!!
OK, so he’s “lawless”....
WTF are you going to do about it?
All I hear from the opposition are crickets.....yawn.
Absolutely right. ALL the Republicans should be screaming how lawless obama is. If they would just stick together they could shut his criminality down. He can’t audit them all. Or threaten them all. Or kill them all.
I think they each just don’t want to be first on the hit List.
So they comfort themselves by making sure WE will be.
Well, since the Republican establishment is going to ensure Christy is the presidential nominee, say hello to president Hillary....the first woman president Ever!
Probably. And in the run-up you’ll see the same names saying that unless we elect Mr. ‘I hate Guns and love Muslims’, that we hate our country.
Today is the time to inform them all that they either play OUR way or THEY lose. Not a year from now. Today. All hands on deck. One voice.
But a few on the ‘conservative’ right seem to want none of that. Gee I wonder why. Yup. A mystery.
Strange others are MUTE.. on this..
Absolutely right. ALL the Republicans should be screaming how lawless obama is. If they would just stick together they could shut his criminality down. He can’t audit them all. Or threaten them all. Or kill them all.
AH! I see.. you Don’t read history much..
Well said Norm and so true
I’m sicker by the day of seeing people bound and determined to get people on board the lesser evil train A G A I N.
Fewer now, but still spreading the BS. Anything to convince people that Romney wasn’t what he was. Anything to get people to openly accept the next round of sodomy by the GOP.
Hopefully this time we can stop it and them. I see more and more people say never again. Hopefully they will stand up this time and join us instead of cowering in a corner when all the “You elected Obama” BS hits a fever pitch.
We;ll see.
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