Ted Cruz trolls America: Why his new lecture on responsible governance = real chutzpah

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Ted Cruz trolls America: Why his new lecture on responsible governance = real chutzpah

by Simon Maloy at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/20/ted_cruz_trolls_america_why_his_new_lecture_on_responsible_governance_real_chutzpah/?utm_source=huffpost_politics&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pubexchange_article

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Ted Cruz is deeply concerned about President Obama’s proposals for executive action on immigration and the havoc they might wreak on the governing process. In an Op-Ed for Politico, the junior senator from Texas does his best to channel the incoherent rage of a Tea Party Facebook rant, writing that “if he acts by executive diktat, President Obama will not be acting as a president, he will be acting as a monarch.” The Founding Fathers certainly didn’t want that, he adds, which is why they created a system of government based on the inviolate principle of compromise.


According to Ted Cruz:


Thankfully, the framers of our Constitution, wary of the dangers of monarchy, gave the Congress tools to rein in abuses of power. They believed if the President wants to change the law, he cannot act alone; he must work with Congress.

He may not get everything he wants, but the Constitution requires compromise between the branches.

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OK … there’s more of the Op-Ed to explore and I will get to that in a moment, but let’s stop right here and appreciate what we are looking at. Ted Cruz is chastising Barack Obama for not respecting the fact that the act of governing is a series of compromises. That’s amazing.




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