In an interview with Breitbart News Senator Ted Cruz said that if elected President one of his first actions will be to undo all of President Barack Obama’s unconstitutional executive orders.  Ted Cruz is the first of a long list of Republican Presidential hopefuls to throw his hat into the ring.  Others who may follow include: Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Fox News, and Carly Fiorina, just to name a few.  Ok, you got me, Fox News isn’t going to run.  I just wanted to make sure you were paying attention.

I’m going to give you the quote directly from Ted Cruz

“The next 20 months are going to be very dangerous because President Obama, unfortunately, seems to have decided to disregard the United States Congress and disregard the American people and instead is trying to force through as much of his extreme agenda as possible via unilateral executive actions-and I think we’re going to see that only accelerate through the end of 2016 with more and more unconstitutional executive orders, more regulatory abuse and more and more efforts to go to the United Nations and foreign war tribunals in an effort to end run Congress.  In January 2017 we will have a new president and if I am elected president, the very first thing I intend to do on the first day is rescind every single unconstitutional or illegal executive action from President Obama.”

Now, Executive orders have been used by all but one of the former Presidents of our country.  The one not to use it was our ninth President William Henry Harrison who was only in office for one month before his death.  Harrison was also the first President to die in office.  In fact prior to President Obama 15,052 executive orders had been issued.  The record holder for the most used is Franklin D. Roosevelt with 3,522.  In recent years Ronald Reagan used 381, George H Bush used 166, Bill Clinton used 364, and George W Bush used 291.

Barack Obama is currently sitting at 208.  Now by the time he has left office he may well surpass Ronald Reagan but I can’t blame him.  Look at the congress he has had to deal with.  When you are dealing with Congressmen who openly said it was there job to make sure you don’t get re-elected you know you aren’t going to get to much cooperation from them.  Congress, over the last 6 years, could go down in history as one of the most inept of all time and Ted Cruz has been right at the forefront of it.

Looking through the list of President Obama’s executive orders I’ve yet to find one that spells the end to the country as we know it.  I did see one that probably pissed the Republicans off.  It’s EO 13673 “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces” -here is the link to see all of President Obama’s executive orders – https://www.federalregister.gov/executive-orders/barack-obama/2014

This got me thinking.  First, when did executive orders become illegal and unconstitutional?  I’m guessing that Ted Cruz would put that date at January 21, 2009.  Why that date you ask?  Well, that is the date when everything changed.  The good ole Old White Guy Club was crashed.  A Black man was inaugurated as President of the United States.  So, what was perfectly fine in the past had to know be illegal.  What used to be praised must now be viewed as an abuse of power.  You want to give amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants?  You want to try and negotiate with Iran and dismantle their nuclear arsenal?  You can’t do those things President Obama, only the white guys before you were allowed to do such a thing.  Now you want to use executive orders?  How dare you.  Who do you think you are? Hitler?

It just physically hurts sometimes reading the ignorance that comes out of most of these Republican Congressmen.

Secondly, Ted Cruz sees it as his mission if elected president to undo what President Obama has done with all his illegal executive orders.  How does Ted Cruz plan to do this you may ask?  With executive orders of course.  Now, I’m pretty sure he doesn’t see the irony in his actions.  But then again I’m sure he will see executive orders as being a legal and constitutionally sound way of getting things done now that a white man is back in the Presidency.

Those pesky facts.