Cruz Refuses To Denounce Controversial NRA Ad

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM



PEMA LEVY 11:17 AM EST, SUNDAY JANUARY 20, 2013

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Sunday refused to denounce the National Rifle Association ad which called President Obama a "hypocrite" for questioning the idea of putting armed guards in all schools while his own children receive armed Secret Service protection.

“There is a fundamental point of hypocrisy when it comes to gun control” Cruz said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Cruz argued that gun control was important to lower-income Americans who don't have the same police protection in their communities as wealthy people do.

Rather than denounce the ad, Cruz attacked Obama for pursuing gun control legislation.

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Cruz: Obama Exploiting Newtown To Push Partisan Agenda

PEMA LEVY 11:11 AM EST, SUNDAY JANUARY 20, 2013

Freshman Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Sunday that President Obama began to exploit the Newtown massacre within minutes of it happening by pushing a partisan gun control agenda.

"Within minutes of that horrible tragedy in Newtown, the president began trying to exploit that tragedy to push a gun control agenda that is designed to appeal to partisans, designed to appeal to his political partisans," Cruz said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

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http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/cruz-obama-exploiting-newtown-to-push-partisan-agenda

[marble falls]

1. He's my senator and I will vote against him every time he runs.

[vlyons]

2. My new senator, Ted Cruz is a complete asshole.

He's also a very ambitious man, getting himself on Sunday talking heads programs as often as possible. I guess the MSM thinks that Cruz is the Senate Go-To guy for the wingnut contingent--now that Jim DeMint has moved on to much much greener moolah pastures.

Watch out for Cruz, he's very ambitious. I predict that he will be a bigger backstabber than Cantor is over in the House.

[customerserviceguy]

4. I figured Cruz's election is one of the major reasons

DeMint decided to move on. Cruz will be a far more effective spokesman from the Senate for the tea partiers, and there's a void in the non-governmental sector slot for the TP. Palin has been pretty much marginalized by this last election, she wasn't half the presence that she was in the 2010 elections, but DeMint has moved to cut her off from re-emerging in 2014 as the champion of the ultra reich wingers who will move to unseat any Rethug showing even a hint of cooperation with the President.

[Joe Bacon]

32. Ted Cruz is a B-Hole!

He does NOT have what it takes to be an A-hole.

[Redford]

34. I'm gonna have to steal that!!

[patrice]

3. Economic injustice is what makes guns "important to lower-income Americans" & 3-Strikes and

you're out sentencing guidelines.

It's like you have people dying because they can get nothing but the worst food to eat and your only solution is to be sure that there is almost nothing but more and more and worse and worse food to eat.

It's justification for more draconian policies to fill up all of those private prisons.

It's genocide, Senator Cruz, genocide.

[another_liberal]

5. Too right.

Well put.

[Walk away]

31. [phone]!

[Paladin]

6. Cruz Is A Guaranteed Embarrassment To My State Of Texas, For Years To Come.

It was once said that dim old Kay Bailey Hutchison appeared to be a scholarly intellectual, compared to John Cornyn. Compared to Cruz, Cornyn now attains Winston Churchill status. Texas senators have been sub-par, for some time.

[totodeinhere]

10. An embarrassment to you and me but apparent not to a majority of Texas voters

who handily elected him.

[Paladin]

14. Thanks For Pointing Out The Painfully Obvious. (nt)

[otohara]

7. Let Me Guess, The Latest GOP Rising Star

Cuz he's Hispanic.
I watched him, he is out of touch with what American's outside of Texas wants.
He clearly despises President Obama too.

Another extreme wingnut from the right.

[w8liftinglady]

22. The irony- Paul Sadler is fluently Bi-Lingual

Mr. Cruz no puede hablar nada.

The Hispanic voting bloc is growing yearly.

Sadler wanted So Badly to debate Cruz on Univision.

[mbperrin]

8. Born in Canada to a Cuban and a US citizen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz

Pointing this out to my Tea Party acquaintances just makes them stop, stare, and ignore.

I think it's funny, but Cruz is a tragedy for my beloved state of Texas.

[Ter]

15. And he still thinks he's eligable for the presidency

He said one of his parents was a US citizen at the time of his birth. I'm far from a Birther, but I don't buy his argument.

[former9thward]

17. You can be president if foreign born if one parent is a citizen.

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Federal law says if only one is a citizen the other parent must have resided in the U.S. for a total of 10 years.

[jmowreader]

21. The 25th Amendment prevents him from being President

4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

"We, the Vice President and a majority of the principal officers of the executive departments, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives that Theodore Cruz, duly elected president of the United States, is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office by virtue of mental instability. We, and 99 and 44-100ths percent of the populace that does not self-identify as tea party members, have determined that Mr. Cruz is crazier than a Shithouse Rat."

[Ter]

23. Federal law is irrelevant

The Constitution supersedes it, and it says you must be "Natural born" and at least 35. The 35 part is very clear, the big problem is "natural born" has never been defined by the Supreme Court. It's very open to debate.

[former9thward]

27. Of course it is open to debate.

But federal law passed by Congress and signed by the President has defined what "natural born" is. I think the SC would defer to Congress absent contrary evidence.

[DavidWD72]

9. Well there it is.

I moved to Texas for a specialized degree. Guess they polls need a little tipping here to boot. Texas is a great place to live. The politics are bat shit crazy, but a great place to live.

[w8liftinglady]

20. david... nowhere to go but Up. Welcome to the crazy train.

Being an activist Democrat in Texas is a trip.
We're here,though....

[kimbutgar]

11. Have you no decency Mr.. Cruz?

Shame on you, you emigrated to this country and received all the benefits of citizenship and now you disrespect the elected president by not standing up to the NRA? You are a worthless piece of crap.

[totodeinhere]

13. Disrespecting the elected president is nothing new in politics. n/t

[totodeinhere]

12. He was an editor of the Harvard Law Review so apparently he is no dummy.

The stupid ones don't bother me so much but it's the smart ones with evil agendas like this guy whom we have to watch out for.

[Justitia]

35. this fact always blows my mind, because in interviews he sounds so duuuuuummmmmbbbb

[samsingh]

16. something we should remember about him

[Thinkingabout]

18. Ted Cruz is a hypocrite for claiming Pro-Life while unregulated weapons used in mass shootings.

Twenty young lives was aborted in Sandy Hook school and he is still on the NRA's side. Don't be Pro-life and pushing abortions for those already born. I will be writing him on regular basis, he needs to go already, won't get my vote.

[Ter]

24. So if that's the case,

Do you think those who are pro-choice and want an assault weapons ban are hypocrites too? At least be consistent.

[Thinkingabout]

25. At least in being pro choice it is consistant, pro life should not be agreeing on weapons of death

There is a difference. Pro life says they err on the side of life and these weapons are designed to kill. They should be limited to law enforcement and military, weapons of war.

[w8liftinglady]

19. Now you know why I worked so hard on Sadler's Campaign

Sadler was screwed from the get-go...140K in donations vs. Cruz' 5 Mill out-of-state tea party money.

Bottom line... get them registered and to the polls in 2014.

[RKP5637]

26. ASSHOLE - plain and simple. GOP = Party of Assholes. n/t

[struggle4progress]

28. Listen! the radio is playing his song

[Skittles]

29. sick rightwing asshole

[Javaman]

30. another repuke coward...

he failed to at first own up to his stupidity when it came to how old the earth was, then finally coughed up an answer.

now as before he's again trying to play it safe with the extreme nuts here in Texas by not denouncing the obvious in hopes of gaining favor with the morons of the right.

this is, what I like to call the dance of the incumbent. he so wants to butter both sides of the bread.

[sdfernando]

33. Wonder how he would feel and what he would demand

if his children were featured as potential targets in an ad??....not that I'm advocating that that, but I don't think he has thought this through. Or maybe he has but realized that without the NRA he probably wouldn't have been elected or will not be re-elected.