Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) wrote an op-ed in the
Wall Street Journal describing the lawless nature of the Obama
administration. Here are a couple of
excerpts:
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
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.
Senator
Cruz makes the case that Obamacare is one illegal enterprise:
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 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."
It’s about time someone in Congress shamed this
administration. Even then, I doubt it
would put a stop to this president.
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