[FreeReign]

You know he's a constitutionalist, right?

That's the ONLY reason I give him the time of day.

I don't care if you give Cruz the time of day or not.

My point is that Cruz wasn't giving a lawyerly answer. Cruz was giving a constitutional answer.

He only describes what he as president would have the constitutional power to accomplish.

Cruz:

"First, to begin the process of reducing the scope and cost of government, I have identified the Five for Freedom: During my first year as president, I will fight to abolish the IRS, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. To do that, I will press Congress relentlessly. And I will appoint heads of each of those agencies whose central charge will be to lead the effort to wind them down and determine whether any of their programs need to be preserved elsewhere because they fall within the proper purview of the federal government. I do not anticipate the lists to be long."

He will press Congress to eliminate the departments.

He will appoint head of agencies to wind down the departments.

There is no uncertainly from Cruz about what he as president is constitutionally able to do and WILL do.

[Talisker]

My point is that Cruz wasn't giving a lawyerly answer. Cruz was giving a constitutional answer.

And my point is that he's a lawyer, and can give you twenty different definitions of "constitution" between bites of a sandwich at lunch. That's just a fact.