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**OFFICIAL** Ted Cruz 2016 FBG Campaign Headquarters (1 Viewer)

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Currently the #1 POTUS choice among conservatives.

And you thought it couldnt get any worse then the dias they had 2012.

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They're going to have to break off and officially become a third party for him to have any chance at a nomination because of all the republicans he's pissed off.

 
Anyone who votes for this clown should be forced to move to the South, then we can kick the entire region out of the union. Should be an easy task since most of them are already there.

 
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Anyone who votes for this clown should be forced to move to the South, then we can kick the entire region out of the union. Should be an easy task since most of them are already there.
:goodposting: Round up all Ted Cruz voters and put them in Obama's FEMA camps.

 
Ted Cruz: The Imperial Presidency of Barack Obama In the nation's history, there is simply no precedent for an American president so wantonly ignoring federal law.

By TED CRUZ
Jan. 28, 2014 6:57 p.m. ET
Of all the troubling aspects of the Obama presidency, none is more dangerous than the president's persistent pattern of lawlessness, his willingness to disregard the written law and instead enforce his own policies via executive fiat. On Monday, Mr. Obama acted unilaterally to raise the minimum wage paid by federal contracts, the first of many executive actions the White House promised would be a theme of his State of the Union address Tuesday night.

The president's taste for unilateral action to circumvent Congress should concern every citizen, regardless of party or ideology. The great 18th-century political philosopher Montesquieu observed: "There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates." America's Founding Fathers took this warning to heart, and we should too.

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At a White House reception for U.S. mayors, Jan. 23.Reuters

Rule of law doesn't simply mean that society has laws; dictatorships are often characterized by an abundance of laws. Rather, rule of law means that we are a nation ruled by laws, not men. That no one—and especially not the president—is above the law. For that reason, the U.S. Constitution imposes on every president the express duty to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed."

Yet rather than honor this duty, President Obama has openly defied it by repeatedly suspending, delaying and waiving portions of the laws he is charged to enforce. When Mr. Obama disagreed with federal immigration laws, he instructed the Justice Department to cease enforcing the laws. He did the same thing with federal welfare law, drug laws and the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

On many of those policy issues, reasonable minds can disagree. Mr. Obama may be right that some of those laws should be changed. But the typical way to voice that policy disagreement, for the preceding 43 presidents, has been to work with Congress to change the law. If the president cannot persuade Congress, then the next step is to take the case to the American people. As President Reagan put it: "If you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat" of electoral accountability.

President Obama has a different approach. As he said recently, describing his executive powers: "I've got a pen, and I've got a phone." Under the Constitution, that is not the way federal law is supposed to work.

The Obama administration has been so brazen in its attempts to expand federal power that the Supreme Court has unanimously rejected the Justice Department's efforts to expand federal power nine times since January 2012.

There is no example of lawlessness more egregious than the enforcement—or nonenforcement—of the president's signature policy, the Affordable Care Act. Mr. Obama has repeatedly declared that "it's the law of the land." Yet he has repeatedly violated ObamaCare's statutory text.

The law says that businesses with 50 or more full-time employees will face the employer mandate on Jan. 1, 2014. President Obama changed that, granting a one-year waiver to employers. How did he do so? Not by going to Congress to change the text of the law, but through a blog post by an assistant secretary at Treasury announcing the change.

The law says that only Americans who have access to state-run exchanges will be subject to employer penalties and may obtain ObamaCare premium subsidies. This was done to entice the states to create exchanges. But, when 34 states decided not to establish state-run exchanges, the Obama administration announced that the statutory words "established by State" would also mean "established by the federal government."

The law says that members of Congress and their staffs' health coverage must be an ObamaCare exchange plan, which would prevent them from receiving their current federal-employee health subsidies, just like millions of Americans who can't receive such benefits. At the behest of Senate Democrats, the Obama administration instead granted a special exemption (deeming "individual" plans to be "group" plans) to members of Congress and their staffs so they could keep their pre-existing health subsidies.

Most strikingly, when over five million Americans found their health insurance plans canceled because ObamaCare made their plans illegal—despite the president's promise "if you like your plan, you can keep it"—President Obama simply held a news conference where he told private insurance companies to disobey the law and issue plans that ObamaCare regulated out of existence.

In other words, rather than go to Congress and try to provide relief to the millions who are hurting because of the "train wreck" of ObamaCare (as one Senate Democrat put it), the president instructed private companies to violate the law and said he would in effect give them a get-out-of-jail-free card—for one year, and one year only. Moreover, in a move reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's looking-glass world, President Obama simultaneously issued a veto threat if Congress passed legislation doing what he was then ordering.

In the more than two centuries of our nation's history, there is simply no precedent for the White House wantonly ignoring federal law and asking private companies to do the same. As my colleague Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa asked, "This was the law. How can they change the law?"

Similarly, 11 state attorneys general recently wrote a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius saying that the continuing changes toObamaCare are "flatly illegal under federal constitutional and statutory law." The attorneys general correctly observed that "the only way to fix this problem-ridden law is to enact changes lawfully: through Congressional action."

In the past, when Republican presidents abused their power, many Republicans—and the press—rightly called them to account. Today many in Congress—and the press—have chosen to give President Obama a pass on his pattern of lawlessness, perhaps letting partisan loyalty to the man supersede their fidelity to the law.

But this should not be a partisan issue. In time, the country will have another president from another party. For all those who are silent now: What would they think of a Republican president who announced that he was going to ignore the law, or unilaterally change the law? Imagine a future president setting aside environmental laws, or tax laws, or labor laws, or tort laws with which he or she disagreed.

That would be wrong—and it is the Obama precedent that is opening the door for future lawlessness. As Montesquieu knew, an imperial presidency threatens the liberty of every citizen. Because when a president can pick and choose which laws to follow and which to ignore, he is no longer a president.

Mr. Cruz, a Republican senator from Texas, serves as the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights.


 
Ted Cruz: The Imperial Presidency of Barack Obama In the nation's history, there is simply no precedent for an American president so wantonly ignoring federal law.

By TED CRUZ
Jan. 28, 2014 6:57 p.m. ET

Of all the troubling aspects of the Obama presidency, none is more dangerous than the president's persistent pattern of lawlessness, his willingness to disregard the written law and instead enforce his own policies via executive fiat.
Ted Cruz is a moron of epic proportions...

Name ............................ Actual number: (years as POTUS)

Theodore Roosevelt ..................... 1,081

Franklin Roosevelt......................... 3,522

Harry Truman............................. 907

Dwight Eisenhower..................... 484

John Kennedy............................ 214

Lyndon Johnson........................ 325

Richard Nixon........................... 346 (5.8)

Gerald Ford............................. 169 (2.4)

Jimmy Carter............................. 320 (4.0)

Ronald Reagan........................ 381 (8.0)

George H.W. Bush................... 166 (4.0)

Bill Clinton................................ 364 (8.0)

George W. Bush...................... 291 (8.0)

Barack Obama......................... 168 (6.0)
 
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Not a Cruz fan, but IIRC the Republicans who voted against the second Sandy bill

Did so for some reasons dealing with allocation of funds. That being said, to vote against it, however justifiable or principled the reason might be, looked terrible then and still does now.

 
Not a Cruz fan, but IIRC the Republicans who voted against the second Sandy bill

Did so for some reasons dealing with allocation of funds. That being said, to vote against it, however justifiable or principled the reason might be, looked terrible then and still does now.
I just this week that something like 50 million from that fund went to rebuild two of the hurricane hunter aircraft.

Money well spent but not exactly what it was intended for.

 
Ted Cruz — who voted against Hurricane Sandy aid — calls for federal relief following Texas floods

Texas Sen. and Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz — who voted against aid in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy — called for federal relief Wednesday in the wake of devastating floods and storms that have ravaged his home state.
I actually know of a ® Congressman on the Mississippi coast who voted against Sandy relief, which absolutely floors me (and others, I can't remember if he won reelection down there but that vote alone caused him a major challenge).

 
N.Y. Times keeps Cruz off bestseller listThe New York Times informed HarperCollins this week that it will not include Ted Cruz's new biography on its forthcoming bestsellers list, despite the fact that the book has sold more copies in its first week than all but two of the Times' bestselling titles, the On Media blog has learned.

Cruz's "A Time For Truth," published on June 30, sold 11,854 copies in its first week, according to Nielsen Bookscan's hardcover sale numbers. That's more than 18 of the 20 titles that will appear on the bestseller list for the week ending July 4. Aziz Ansari's "Modern Romance," which is #2 on the list, sold fewer than 10,000 copies. Ann Coulter's "Adios America," at #11, sold just over half as many copies.

"A Time For Truth" has also sold more copies in a single week than Rand Paul's "Taking a Stand," which has been out for more than a month, and more than Marco Rubio's "American Dreams," which has been out for six months. It is currently #4 on the Wall Street Journal hardcover list, #4 on the Publisher's Weekly hardcover list, #4 on the Bookscan hardcover list, and #1 on the Conservative Book Club list.

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/07/ny-times-keeps-cruz-off-bestseller-list-210254.html

 
New prediction....this is your Republican nominee for president.

He has positioned himself perfectly to take the Trump crowd when he's done. He is similar enough to Trump on the issues that matters to the Trump backers, but without the bluster and controversy.

Book it. Cruz vs Clinton.

 
New prediction....this is your Republican nominee for president.

He has positioned himself perfectly to take the Trump crowd when he's done. He is similar enough to Trump on the issues that matters to the Trump backers, but without the bluster and controversy.

Book it. Cruz vs Clinton.
Ooofff. No thanks, Gary Johnson again for me if those are my choices. Good luck Ted.

 
New prediction....this is your Republican nominee for president.

He has positioned himself perfectly to take the Trump crowd when he's done. He is similar enough to Trump on the issues that matters to the Trump backers, but without the bluster and controversy.

Book it. Cruz vs Clinton.
When this fails to happen you should seriously consider re-evaluating your life. ;)
 
Ted Cruz Hates “New York Values” But Sure Loves New York MoneyOn Tuesday on the syndicated Howie Carr Show, Ted Cruz declared that Donald Trump “comes from New York and he embodies New York values.” That night on Fox, New York-born Megyn Kelly asked Cruz to explain exactly what “New York values” are. Cruz responded: “The rest of the country knows exactly what New York values are, and I gotta say, they’re not Iowa values and they’re not New Hampshire values.”

Yesterday Kellyanne Conway, president of Keep the Promise I, one of four significant pro-Cruz Super PACs, endorsed Cruz’s anti-New York perspective: “New York is home to many wonderful people and places, but the emphasis is more on money than morality. The line to get into Abercrombie & Fitch is a mile longer than the line to get into St. Patrick’s Cathedral.”

But here’s what Cruz and Conway haven’t mentioned:

Keep the Promise I is registered in New York and has raised $11,000,000 from a single New Yorker, financier Robert Mercer. Mercer is co-CEO of the hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, located on New York’s Long Island. The Super PAC’s only other donor is from Florida and contributed $5,000, so Mercer has provided 99.95 percent of its money.

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https://theintercept.com/2016/01/14/ted-cruz-hates-new-york-values-but-sure-loves-new-york-money/

- Wow, I wonder if that is "Mercer" as in Mercer Street, if so that is ooollllddd New York money.

 
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Follow my old friend @clmazin on Twitter for all your Ted Cruz news. He lived with the guy in a dorm room for 10 months.

 
Time to bump this bad boy.

Have to give credit where credit is due: @RBM for calling Cruz the guy way back in Dec. 2015.

 
Ted Cruz will be The Most Creepy-Faced President of All Time if elected.  Easily.

Also a person of vast intelligence that probably rivals Obama's.

 

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