Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Sunday slammed President Obama over his executive action to delay the deportation of 5 million undocumented immigrants, referencing a “Saturday Night Live” skit.
On Saturday, SNL spoofed the Schoolhouse Rock song on how a bill becomes a law. In the bit, Obama touts his executive authority.
“This is not a president who wants to work with Congress. Rather this is a president who is openly defying Congress,” Cruz said of Obama.
“I actually can’t put it any better than Saturday Night Live put it last night,” Cruz continued. “Saturday Night Live literally had the president pushing the bill down the steps of the Capitol because we no longer need the steps in the Constitution for how we pass laws, because the president now is claiming unilateral authority the Constitution doesn’t give him.”
Watch the SNL clip via Yahoo News:
Cruz called Obama’s claim that other presidents had used executive authority to delay deportations “frivolous.” Cruz said that Obama’s order may have been acceptable if he was already working with Congress to address immigration issues.
So what bill is Sen Cruz referring to? There is no bill. That’s the fucking point and the rubes are too stupid to get that.
“This is not a Congress who wants to work with the President. Rather this is a Congress who is openly defying the President, besides Cruz is bat shit crazy” Obama said of Cruz.
The skit was a LIE, there has been NO bill passed by the House and sent to the Senate. SNL is so far off base.
What President Obama should do with the first bill that the new Congress sends him (That’s if they actually do their jobs and pass a bill.) is talk for 21 hours then veto it.
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Cruz called Obama’s claim that other presidents had used executive
authority to delay deportations “frivolous.” Cruz said that Obama’s
order may have been acceptable if he was already working with Congress
to address immigration issues."
"As the nation’s attention turns back to the fractured debate over
immigration, it might be helpful to remember that in 1986, Ronald Reagan
signed a sweeping immigration reform bill into law. It was sold as a
crackdown: There would be tighter security at the Mexican border, and
employers would face strict penalties for hiring undocumented workers. But
the bill also made any immigrant who’d entered the country before 1982
eligible for amnesty — a word not usually associated with the father of
modern conservatism. "