Ted Cruz: Democrats will rue letting President Obama’s lawlessness slide
American-Statesman Staff
Sen. Ted
Cruz, R-Texas, charged President Obama with a pattern of “lawlessness on
a breathtaking scale” that he said even liberal Democrats will come to
regret when a future president seeks to exercise similar unbridled
power.
Cruz said Friday morning at the last day of the Texas
Public Policy Foundation’s Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature
that, from giving relief from departation to some young unauthorized
immigrants to enforcement of drug laws to waiving rules for Obamacare,
the president has acted by executive fiat in defiance of the rule of
law.
“We are a nation of laws and not men,” said Cruz. “If we had a
system where a president can pick and choose what laws to follow at
utter whim … that is seriously dangerous.”
Cruz said the liberal
media refuses to accurately report the threat to liberty of the Obama
presidency, and makes excuses for the president’s overreaches.
But,
he said, “If you’re a liberal, if you’re a Democrat, if you’re a
reporter for the New York Times, maybe you’re saying, `he’s my guy. I
root for my guy. I don’t like some of the things he’s doing but he’s
basically my guy so he’s OK.’”
But Cruz warned those with that
mindset that they ought to contemplate that their “guy ain’t gonna be
there forever. If this president has that power so does the next one and
the next one and the next one, and my message to all the Democrats and
all the liberals is, what do you think about the next president, maybe a
Republican, having the power Barack Obama has as a president who is not
bound by the law?”
“If you love liberty, that should concern you greatly,” said Cruz.
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