Posted on 01/10/2016 8:53:58 AM PST by Isara
Ted Cruz had a message for conservatives rabid for the repeal of Obamacare: Don't expect "Day One" results.
"The president doesn't have the constitutional authority to end it on Day One," he said in an interview aired Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union. "The only way to end it is to repeal that statute ... we will repeal Obamacare, but unlike Obama, I don't intend as president to be - to use his word - an emperor."
It's a rare appeal to pragmatism from a candidate who typically stokes the conservative id. It came initially as a response to questions about immigration, when he argue that presidents have the obligation to enforce the law on the books, whether they agree with it or not. Cruz rejected an immigration approach proposed by Donald Trump to send deportation agents door to door to round up immigrants in the country illegally.
"I don't intend to send jackboots to knock on your door and every door in America," Cruz said. "That's not how we enforce the law in any crime.
During an otherwise typical rebuke of Democratic and Republican leadership in Washington, Cruz paused to heap praise on longtime Senate Democrats who he said had shown principle: Ted Kennedy, Mike Mansfield and Robert Byrd. He said all three of the former senators would have rejected President Barack Obama's approach to separation-of-powers issues.
"What is amazing is how servile the entire Democratic Party is right now. I guess it's just the ends justify the means," he said.
Cruz was equally unsparing with his critique of Republicans who say he might crush Republicans down-ballot if he's the party's nominee. Cruz pointed out that Bob Dole, John McCain and Mitt Romney were "clobbered in the purple states" that Republicans need to win, and he argued that a more conservative candidate would give like-mined voters a better reason to run out.
Very nicely played. Cruz is no dummy, as we all know.
The jackboots kick down doors of people who have committed no bigger crime than buying hydroponic gardening supplies.
You’re just asking for it.
The really deep thinking Trump for dictator crowd is going to be on you like white on rice.
he won’t be president either
“Ted Kennedy, Mike Mansfield and Robert Byrd. He said all three of the former senators would have rejected President Barack Obama’s approach to separation-of-powers issues.”
Ted Kennedy was #1 Obama supporter ans pushed for Obama.
Yeah, he was a real principaled POS. Heap of praise? nope.
Can't be an Emperor.
He's from Canada!
Comrade had started making excuse. BO is not making excuse,he is just doing everything by EO.
I want an emperor...we’re out of time to play nice.
The Resistance must be crushed.
I want a president like Cruz who respects the Constitution, not a dictator like some of the Trump supporters seem to want.
Thanks for the honesty. Shall we demand a name change here?
DOWN with the Free Republic!
UP with the Free Empire! (Whatever that may turn out to be....
Wink, wink, Not like SOME people!
The Constitution was, and is, intended to be "the People's" chains for binding individuals in government and keeping "the People" free.
The founding principles of "limited government" power, strict "division and separation of powers, with checks and balances," and "fidelity to the Constitution and its limits and bounds on the exercise of power" in all circumstances--these should be the measures by which citizens should choose the next President.
Following the attempts at eroding the Constitution's limits on power by this President, Republicans should choose a candidate who will vow that he/she will not choose to attempt to enact conservative values, using the same un-Constitutional tactics as this President. The Constitution's limits must be respected, no matter how frustrating is the process.
If Cruz really implements Constitutional government, the President will have practically no power at all.
It’s not just Trump supporters that want a dictator but also the Hillary supporters.
Amazing how that works.
The difference between doing so, and not doing so, determines whether after 4 or 8 years, the electorate does a pendulum backlash, again, this time to another marxist POSOTUS, or instead, hopefully, a fresh electorate mindset and yearning for Constitutional government and individual freedom to another Constitutional POTUS.
“If Cruz really implements Constitutional government, the President will have practically no power at all.”
So, you have a problem with that?
LOL!
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