Cruz says ....'term limits' among other Constitutional amendments in need of overhaul!
Proud men who KNOW who they serve!!!!.....
Posted on 01/09/2016 8:17:09 AM PST by Isara
MASON CITY, Iowa–Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz wants to add a number of amendments to the U.S. Constitution. He told reporters Friday at the Praise Community Church he would like to see amendments added pertaining to a balanced budget, term limits, and restoring power to state legislatures.
“We need quite quite a few constitutional amendments,”Cruz said. "I will fight hard for a balanced budget amendment including also a term limits amendment. I think a term limits amendment is absolutely critical. If you look at the abuses of power we're seeing in Washington-term limits for members of Congress and the Supreme court."
He added, "Beyond that, I've introduced a Constitutional amendment restoring state legislators to define marriage as one man and one woman. And there are many more amendments we need, in part because the federal government and the courts have gotten so far away from the original text and our original understanding of the Constitution."
Cruz first wrote about amending the Constitution back in July when the Supreme Court ruled for same sex marriage to be recognized in each state.
The Texas senator’s remarks come as Texas Governor Greg Abbot called for a Constitutional Convention to take back states rights.
"If we are going to fight for, protect and hand on to the next generation, the freedom that [President] Reagan spoke of ... then we have to take the lead to restore the rule of law in America," Abbott said during a speech at the Texas Public Policy Foundation's Policy Orientation.
The Dallas Morning News reports Abbot will ask lawmakers to pass a bill allowing Texas to join other states calling for a Convention of States.
The Convention of States (COS) Project is organized in each states with almost one million volunteers, supporters and advocates, their website says. Alaska, Florida, Georgia, and Alabama passed the organization’s Article V resolution, which proposes amendments to the U.S. Constitution on issues pertaining to limiting the power of the federal government and establishing term limits for federal officials, since the project launched in 2013. In 2015, the COS Project filed their resolutions in 37 states.
“How about just making federal office holders uphold their oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States? Start by impeaching a 3 or 4 Supreme Court Justices. That should send the message that needs to be sent.”
Reminds me of another of Cruz’s recent flip flops...he did all he could to worship and push Obamacare John Roberts on us, but now he wants to distance himself there too.
“As an individual, John Roberts is undoubtedly a principled conservative, as is the president who appointed him,” Cruz said. 2005
2015 Cruz argued during CNN’s Reagan library debate that former President George W. Bush nominated Roberts “because it was the easier choice” and he wasn’t “willing to spend political capital to put a strong judicial conservative on the court.”
Cruz says ....'term limits' among other Constitutional amendments in need of overhaul!
Proud men who KNOW who they serve!!!!.....
And in that 10 year gap, clearly nothing changed with Roberts. Nope. Nothing at all.
No obamacare, no illegal kids coming to light. Ted surely saw the future in o5 and hatefully used his powers for evil.
So lets apply that standard to Donald trump and see where he was in 2005 shall we.
Do you REALLY want to go there? Really? Because it won’t end well.
Cruz’s foreign policy advisor is a CFR member? Ohmygosh.
So go ahead and propose them Ted. You’re in the Senate, which averages 100+ Constitutional Amendment proposals a year. Go for it. Of course they won’t pass, but you knew that. Anytime a politicians says “we need an amendment” what he’s really saying is “I want to cop a position, but not actually do anything.”
Cruz has a problem with his own history and telling the truth. Maybe that is just part of being a really good lawyer. Really good lawyers know how to twist and bend the truth beyond recognition.
Same can be said for an unfortunate number of Freepers come election season.
The prosecutorial function, in the American republic, belongs to the executive. Except for impeachment proceedings lodged against federal officers, which are to be tried in the Senate, it is the executive that prosecutes. And impeachment and conviction merely removes the officer from office, and, optionally, bars him from future federal office. No criminal or civil penalties attach.
In terms of ordinary civil and criminal prosecutions, Congress has no direct role. So, if congressional hearings show hitlery to be a blood-stained murderess, with the weapon still in her hand, and the executive refuses to bring her up on charges, she skates. If Lois Lerner is illegally messing with the taxes of every conservative, and the executive doesn’t prosecute, tough, nothing happens.
Prosecution of crime is done by a part of the executive branch of government.
From your words, it seems as though Law Schools should be banned and shuttered. I only hope that one day it might be discovered that the Rosetta Stone will help us to understand ‘legalize’ speak. The terms thrown about are more like a foreign language to the ears. Attorneys seem to full of themselves in all aspects of life in general.
Only if the deal is GOOD would a Donald close. The Dems do not do good deals,remember that.
Exactly. That's why just appointing judges with the same kind of legal indoctrination isn't going to get us out of this mess. Even 'conservative' judges don't really have the right kind of thinking tools to cut through the BS.
Which one goes to galas that Hillary throws?
Which ones buy off politicians so that he can have his way over and over?
Which one donated to the Democrats to grease their palms to promote his business?
Which one says he is going to boycott Fox but shows up on it every week getting free air time for his campaign?
Which one says he is going to build a great big beautiful wall with a yuge door in it with Mexico's money and the loons eat it up as the truth?
I can answer all of the above....Not Cruz
How did a vote for cloture vote on a bill that never passed hurt jobs? The version of TPA that Cruz voted for cloture on never made it to the President’s desk.
Actually, I think they both are capable of using the bully pulpit to use public opinion do drive Congress.
The thing is, I know what Cruz wants to accomplish.
I don't know what Trump wants to accomplish, aside from building a wall.
Maybe because we prefer not to hand the country over to someone so utterly untrustworthy?
I think they would try. I think the people would respond. And I think they’d go right back to watching the kardashians when the GOPDNC said no.
Like they always have and always will. After all. Those very people elected their own oppressors. Ted/Don/Anyone fighting them has no support. Not enough to matter when the chips are actually down. History is clear.
All I am saying is that right now, Cruz is showing that he HASN’T sorted out this stuff. A lot of what he’s talking about right now will do more harm than good. I hope he does. It needs to happen.
Trump has what Cruz doesn't ... the voters to win! Pound your pillow some more.
A lot of us who started out as Cruzer's have fallen off that bandwagon, and every day more stuff comes up. What are you achieving by accusing our preferred candidate of being untrustworthy?
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