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Obama signs Ted Cruz bill into law, but says he won´t enforce it
washington examiner ^ | 4/18/14 | Joel Gehrke

Posted on 04/18/2014 4:35:04 PM PDT by Nachum

President Obama on Friday signed into law a bill authored by Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz that would bar an Iranian diplomat from entering the United States, but immediately issued a statement saying he won't enforce it.

Obama decided to treat the law as mere advice. "Acts of espionage and terrorism against the United States and our allies are unquestionably problems of the utmost gravity, and I share the Congress's concern that individuals who have engaged in such activity may use the cover of diplomacy to gain access to our Nation," Obama said in his signing statement.

"Nevertheless, as President [George H.W.] Bush also observed, "curtailing by statute my constitutional discretion to receive or reject ambassadors is neither a permissible nor a practical solution." I shall therefore continue to treat section 407, as originally enacted and as amended by S. 2195, as advisory in circumstances in which it would interfere with the exercise of this discretion."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2014election; 2016election; abutalebi; bill; cruz; election2014; election2016; hostagecrisis; impeachnow; iran; kenyanbornmuzzie; obama; rop; tedcruz; texas; waronterror; worldwar3
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1 posted on 04/18/2014 4:35:05 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

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2 posted on 04/18/2014 4:35:28 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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So if you don’t enforce the law and are selective with it, why are the Feds harassing ranchers out west?


3 posted on 04/18/2014 4:36:59 PM PDT by BeadCounter ( Let's hope profanity remains the only stranger here.)
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To: Nachum

Well DUh,,who thought King Obama would enforce a law preventing his terrorist buddies from entering the US as diplomats? Gee,,that was a given. He just didn’t have guts to veto it.....but you know he wanted to.


4 posted on 04/18/2014 4:37:00 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: Nachum

Then don’t enforce 0CommieCare either, putz.


5 posted on 04/18/2014 4:39:10 PM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: Nachum

Impeach!


6 posted on 04/18/2014 4:39:25 PM PDT by entropy12
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To: Nachum
The Law no longer comes from Congress.

It now comes from the Mouth of 0bama. (so he says)

7 posted on 04/18/2014 4:39:35 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Nachum

now that’s the last straw!


8 posted on 04/18/2014 4:40:40 PM PDT by dontreadthis
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To: Nachum

Barry isn’t much into laws except when they are used to steal other people’s money.


10 posted on 04/18/2014 4:41:47 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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Obama decided to treat the law as mere advice.

So, what you're sayin' is - business as usual?

11 posted on 04/18/2014 4:44:59 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: Nachum

I remember reading about a long time ago, when Nanzi Pelosi was just a girl, England had a law against executing women and there was a lady-in-waiting who Henry VIII believed had corrupted one of his wives—the young, silly wife, Katherine Howard, that’s it—and he really wanted this woman whacked, so he had Parliament immediately change the law. And then he had he head lopped off.
Just because he could.
Here our King is saying he refuses to respect the act of a co-equal branch of government, just because he can.

“When a long train of abuses ....”


12 posted on 04/18/2014 4:45:53 PM PDT by tumblindice (Are all Democrats inveterate, habitual liars?)
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To: Nachum

But IT’S THE LAW OF THE LAND!


13 posted on 04/18/2014 4:47:23 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Nachum

So laws aren’t really laws anymore. I wonder if Barry will ever connect the dots when CWII really gets underway. Of course he doesn’t see that its already started.


14 posted on 04/18/2014 4:47:25 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Nachum

What are mere laws to the felon in chief.


15 posted on 04/18/2014 4:47:34 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Nachum

Clown Prince nobama wipes his arse with the Law.


16 posted on 04/18/2014 4:47:35 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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He can’t enforce it. The treaty the U.S. signed with the UN prevents the U.S. from denying entry into the country and access to the UN for any country’s diplomats. He can prevent them from leaving the New York City area but that’s about it.


17 posted on 04/18/2014 4:48:57 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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He is picking which parts to enforce and who to force it on.


18 posted on 04/18/2014 4:49:10 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Nachum

Of course not. He and the Iranians are pals, from the same brotherhood. When you are attempting to destroy the nation from within, you have to do these things. So, he continues to let the enemy in.


19 posted on 04/18/2014 4:49:23 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (MARANATHA, MARANATHA, Come quickly LORD Jesus!!! Father send thy Son!! Its Time!)
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To: Nachum

So Obama disagrees with Harry Reid about allowing people to break the law?

Funny stuff.


20 posted on 04/18/2014 4:50:18 PM PDT by savedbygrace (But God!)
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