Cruz says liberals must love Obama

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said on Sunday that liberals should be thrilled with the United States under President Obama.

“If I was leftist, I would love Barack Obama,” Cruz said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “He has advanced the leftist, progressive agenda more than any other president.”

{mosads}Cruz, a 2016 GOP presidential candidate, said that late last month the Supreme Court took action to help implement policies Obama favors.

“They stopped being an umpire and started being a player in the game,” Cruz said of high court decisions on ObamaCare subsidies and same-sex marriage.

“It is profoundly troubling when you have Supreme Court justices not following their roles and becoming legislators,” he said. “It is the judges that have politicized these debates.”

The Texas senator especially took issue with the Supreme Court’s legalization of gay marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26.

“Marriage has always been a question for the states,” Cruz said. “Under the Constitution, there was a mechanism for resolving our differences.”