Posted on 07/16/2015 1:23:23 PM PDT by VinL
Yes, I did. And I’m respectfully waiting for your answer. Please, edify me.
I am glad Cruz is saying this...
On a related issue - I sometimes wonder what would have happened if Byrd were still alive. Would he have put up with Obama usurping Congress’ role like most Rats have?
Good idea Cruz but not a damn chance. King Obama is in complete control and as dictator he will do what he damn pleases. Waste of time.
Where are the other 500+ congress-losers on this? These idiots gave away their power when they reversed their role a while back. Idiots...friggin’ idiots.
He won’t do crap. He voted for this already when he flipped the constitution on its head, by saying Obama can veto their refusal to pass the treaty.
He won’t do crap.
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Cruz will do as he said. Sit back, watch and learn.
Okay - our Congress promised to defund Obamacare.
Have they done it?
Our Congress promised to cut Obama’s budget.
Have they done it?
Our Congress promised to derail the Obama agenda.
Have they done it?
Have they done these things?
Any of them?
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, released the following statement regarding votes on the Iran Nuclear Review Act: “This bill was a missed opportunity. If Congress had acted to defend our constitutional authority – if Congress had adopted the Cruz-Toomey amendment – then we would be able to stop a bad Iran deal. Instead, the odds are now overwhelming that under these ground rules President Obama will negotiate, and Congress will acquiesce to, a terrible deal that allows Iran to acquire nuclear weapons and will endanger the lives of millions of Americans and our allies. “I voted no on cloture because we should have insisted on amendments to put real teeth in this bill. Ultimately, 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. I will continue to lead the fight to prevent the Islamic Republic of Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and to protect the national security of America and our allies.”
Another Ted Cruz Naysayer heard from.
I wonder if in the future “Obama” will become a word meaning treason in the same way “Bork” became a word meaning to unfairly attack and smear.
The GOP campaigned on stopping Obamacare, reducing the budget deficit and opposing the Obama agenda- the GOP lied. The Gop-e is for big government.
The issue of a nuclear Iran is wholly different. The GOP-e vested interests do not want a nuclear Iran. They will not allow the president to bypass Congress on this matter.
This is what I suspect. The damned Senate and House are full of enemy islamists and their facilitators.
It’s a lesser evil. Lets elect more GOP liberals no matter what.
I love Cruz. But he justifies his vote with “we should have insisted...”?
I see the Ted Cruz Nay-Sayers have arrived.
I’m for Cruz but have no trust in any of them.
Let Cruz prove me wrong.
If Ted Cruz wants to be president he’d would be better off going before the American people and declaring that he will lead an effort to defund the U.N. if it acts on the Iran treaty before Congress has a chance to.
Then he can make a major issue out of the outrages the U.N. has committed — at American taxpayers’ expense — with specific examples that will arouse prospective voters’ anger, fill large auditoriums to hear his speeches, and propel him to frontrunner status in the Republican presidential race. This is how Donald Trump is vaulting over his Republican rivals.
Ted Cruz has to stop sounding like he’s trying to win a professorship in Constitutional law at Harvard rather than the presidency. Half the people in this country don’t know what the Constitution is. That’s one of the greatest problems in this country — mass ignorance — which is why we need a Conservative president who will reform our education system.
But Ted Cruz is not going to make it to the White House if he can’t speak on the same level as the people, who need to be energized, not bored with the intricate legal and parliamentary issues he seems so enamored with.
Did you read the article, and Cruz’s letter to Obama?
“Until you provide such assurances, I intend to block all nominees for the Department of State and hold any legislation that reauthorizes funds for the Department of State,” Cruz writes.
We’ll see what happens. I no longer have faith in any of them.
What’s going on here.....
What is happening behind the surface is that Obama doesn’t want Congressional Democrats to be held accountable for their votes on the Iranian Nuke deal.
In an attempt to bypass Congress, Democrats would be off the hook. They would simply tell their constituents, hey, we wanted to vote against it but it was out of our hands.
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