In his latest newsletter, Sen. Ted Cruz suggests action on three specific issues which, if the GOP had competent leadership, the Republican congressional caucus would heed and begin to bring under control the accelerating lawlessness of the Obama administration. In each instance, Sen. Cruz’s position has massive support and approval of the voters. Each has been or would be, aggressively opposed by the mainstream media, the Establishment GOP, and the Senate “leadership”, wherever Congressional Republicans would seem inclined to offer majority support.
It became clear, almost from the day after last November’s election that Mitch McConnell had no intention of carrying out the promises and commitments he made to voters, as he pleaded with them to make him majority leader. So opposed to the lawlessness of the Obama administration, the American people disregarded the clear signals by the Republican establishment and some of its biggest donors, the US Chamber of Commerce chief among them, that those promises were not among the top hundred of their priorities. Illegal grant of amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants was their Job One.
Obama’s disregard and contempt for any role of congress in making agreements with Iran or the dopey doings of the UN, proceeding with a regulatory agenda which has been the most far reaching and destructive in American history, Stalinist-type use of government agencies to punish and control critics of Obama (IRS, DOJ) and unprecedented heavy handed governance, including the blatant disregard for both the Constitution and established law, uh, not so much for McConnell and his supporters.
McConnell and his Senate allies have systematically dismantled the structures of legislative power which could have halted the most egregious Administration agenda items. GOP leadership has surrendered its so-called “power of the Purse”, it has shown no indication of opposing presidential appointments which would have both sent a message to Obama and prevented some serious outrages. The foremost among them is the apparently imminent approval of Loretta Lynch to succeed the contemptible Eric Holder as Attorney General, even after, as Senator Cruz notes, she has shown no interest in upholding the Constitution when it comes to Obama’s obvious violations.
Check out these excerpts from Senator Cruz’s recent press releases. But be warned, you risk scorn from the low information crowd and left wing robots who will recall that it was “Bush or Cheney, or Halliburton, or…” who really did all this bad stuff which has coincidentally descended on the American people in the last six years. What else you gonna say when you got nothing?
Urges Senate Republicans to Oppose Lorretta Lynch’s Nomination
On Tuesday, Sen. Cruz published an op-ed in Politico Magazine making the case for stopping the nomination of Loretta Lynch to the Office of Attorney General.
“It is entirely within the power of the newly elected Republican majority in the Senate not to confirm Ms. Lynch. The only question is whether the GOP majority will exercise its constitutional authority to do so,” Sen. Cruz said.
Sen. Cruz recalled several of the questions in which Ms. Lynch refused to condemn Eric Holder’s lawlessness, particularly in cases such as refusing to appoint a prosecutor to investigate the illegal targeting of the IRS and complying with President Obama’s illegal executive amnesty.Sen. Cruz continued, “Some argue that rejecting Ms. Lynch’s nomination would just keep Eric Holder in office. It is true that Holder has abused the office, turning a Department of Justice that had built a long bipartisan tradition of impartially enforcing the law into effectively a partisan arm of the Democratic Party. And he has repeatedly ignored the law and the Constitution, so much so that he is the only attorney general in history to be held in contempt of Congress.
“But Holder’s lawless behavior occurred after he was confirmed. It is altogether different for the Senate to confirm a nominee who tells us ahead of time she will ignore the law. If the Senate does so, we are complicit in the lawlessness.
Senate Republicans have the power to stop this nomination. And we have a choice. We can honor our oaths to the Constitution-we can defend liberty and the rule of law-or we can confirm an attorney general who has candidly admitted she will impose no limits on the President whatsoever.”
Sen. Cruz Sends Sec. Johnson a Letter:
Do you Intend to Abide by the Federal Court Order?
On Tuesday, Sen. Cruz sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson questioning whether the Obama Administration plans to comply with the court’s injunction to stop President Obama’s illegal amnesty in light of President Obama’s public comments that DHS would “continue in the planning” of activities the court issued a cease and desist order to stop.
“Violating an unambiguous federal court order by defying its instructions to cease and desist a particular activity would represent a significant breach of your authority, and would be an escalation in abuse of our separation of powers. For a President and his cabinet to telegraph intent to violate a federal court order requires additional scrutiny from Congress,” Sen. Cruz said.
Sen. Cruz requested the following information:
1) The precise DAPA program-related and DACA program expansion-related actions, procedures, processes, and/or preparations the Administration intends to continue to implement despite the current federal court order;
2) The specific sources of funding the Administration intends to use to continue to implement the above actions, procedures, processes, and/or preparations, including indications as to whether the funding comes from the general fund of the Treasury or one or more designated offsetting accounts;
3) A clarification of how continuing to prepare for the DAPA program and DACA program expansion does not violate the court order’s specific instruction to refrain “from implementing any and all aspects or phases” of the DAPA program and DACA program expansion; and
4) The specific provisions of federal law that you believe permit the Administration to continue to implement the above actions, procedures, processes, and/or preparations in the face of the current federal court order.
DHS Funding Plan a Mistake
On Tuesday, Sen. Cruz released the following statement regarding Department of Homeland Security funding:
“It is both reckless and irresponsible for Democrats to continue to filibuster funding for the Department of Homeland Security in a misguided attempt to preserve President Obama’s executive amnesty, which has already been rejected by the voters and declared illegal by a federal court. The federal court injunction was a major victory for the rule of law, and we need to hold the Administration accountable to comply in every respect. Leadership’s current plan – to pass clean DHS funding and separate legislation barring executive amnesty – is a mistake. Congress is obliged to use every constitutional check and balance we have to rein in President Obama’s lawlessness, and that includes both our confirmation authority over nominees and the power of the purse.”
DLH
it’s CRUZ’s opinion there’s a “violation” > by the way, this is the scam artist who screwed Veterans and cost all of us 24 billion dollars shutting down the gov’t for PERSONAL reasons.
“Lib” enuff 4 U Bircherz? 🙂 Phil S.