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Cruz slams White House's plan to leave SOTU seat empty for gun victims
Politico ^ | 01/08/16 | Nick Gass

Posted on 01/08/2016 3:18:13 PM PST by Isara

Ted Cruz responded to the White House's announcement Friday that a seat in the first lady's guest box for Tuesday's State of the Union address will be left empty to honor victims of gun violence with a promise of his own.

"If I'm elected POTUS, there'll be an empty seat for the over 50 million unborn children killed since Roe #Stand4Life," the Texas senator and Republican presidential candidate tweeted Friday afternoon after the White House's account tweeted the news.

If I'm elected POTUS, there'll be an empty seat for the over 50 million unborn children killed since Roe #Stand4Life https://t.co/BgBy8yYKYd

- Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) January 8, 2016

Obama's announced executive action on guns from earlier this week drew strong criticism from Republicans, including Cruz, who features a fundraising appeal on his campaign website that says the president "wants your guns."

Traditionally, the White House's invited guests have signaled potential areas of emphasis for the president's address. Among the invitees last year, for example, were students, medical professionals, a child of undocumented immigrants, a police officer and an Army veteran.


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Ted Cruz: You don't stop the bad guys by taking away our guns, you stop the bad guys by using our guns!
1 posted on 01/08/2016 3:18:13 PM PST by Isara
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To: Isara

Empty seat...you mean Clint Eastwood’s empty chair?

https://youtu.be/933hKyKNPFQ


2 posted on 01/08/2016 3:20:51 PM PST by NEWwoman (God Bless America)
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To: Isara
PRESIDENT Ted Cruz!

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3 posted on 01/08/2016 3:22:47 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Isara

What a jerk. Typical Nazi and commie theater for the DemocRATS’ gullible and uneducated voter base. The liberals love to whine that Republican voters don’t have college diplomas. At the same time, 85% of the RAT voter base don’t have a middle school diploma.


4 posted on 01/08/2016 3:26:19 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Impeach the bastard!)
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To: Isara

The Whitehouse got the idea from Clint Eastwood.


5 posted on 01/08/2016 3:28:50 PM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Isara

Leave a seat open for all the babys killed in abortion mills on Obama’s watch. Leave one open for Ambassador Stevens too while they’re at it.


6 posted on 01/08/2016 3:29:14 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Isara

Just use the seat Ruth Bader Ginsberg sleeps in during the SOTU speeches.


7 posted on 01/08/2016 3:29:45 PM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Isara

I just refer to it as Chris Stevens’s seat.


8 posted on 01/08/2016 3:35:11 PM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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a seat in the first lady’s guest box for Tuesday’s State of the Union address will be left empty

= no one wants to sit with Michelle


9 posted on 01/08/2016 3:36:49 PM PST by Jolla
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To: Isara

Cruz said Obama has a pen but Cruz has an eraser.

I don’t want Cruz to erase the whole trust thing, but I’m sure he’s aware of that.


10 posted on 01/08/2016 3:36:52 PM PST by Read Write Repeat (Not one convinced me they want the job yet)
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To: Isara

Republican response should be an angry tranny ranting that he could have used the seat.


11 posted on 01/08/2016 3:41:16 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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If you want to bring attention to mass murderers, put a lifesize cardboard cutout of Joseph Stalin in the seat. You can even include the caption:

“His country had the strictest gun control laws in the world.”


12 posted on 01/08/2016 3:46:49 PM PST by henkster (Never elect a president with unresolved mommy issues.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Heidi Cruz should just go sit in the seat.


13 posted on 01/08/2016 3:46:57 PM PST by The Iceman Cometh (Trump & Cruz - Together, a Better America!)
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To: Isara

You think we could get Ted Nugent to walk in and sit in it?

CC


14 posted on 01/08/2016 3:59:25 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Jolla
Michelle isn't touchy feely....unless it's the Queen...a move of her superiority over the queen.

Is Obama bringing his pen to the SOTU speech?

One more year of this cr**.

15 posted on 01/08/2016 4:14:36 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Isara

How about a few empty seats for the hundred million killed by the Democrat friends the communists in Russia, China, Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba and elsewhere?

How about a few more empty seats for the 6 million Jews exterminated by the Democrat friends the National Socialists in Germany? They were disarmed by the National Socialists and had their weapons confiscated, just like Obamao and the Dems want to do here.


16 posted on 01/08/2016 4:21:07 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

How many drugs did you need to abuse for that?


17 posted on 01/08/2016 4:21:42 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: cripplecreek

“I just refer to it as Chris Stevens’s seat”.
That was my first thought. Impose that text over the image of the screen, with “unavailable”.


18 posted on 01/08/2016 4:26:30 PM PST by 9422WMR ("Ignorance can be cured by education, but stupidity is forever.")
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To: Berlin_Freeper
How many drugs did you need to abuse for that?

How many English classes did you fail to write that sentence?

19 posted on 01/08/2016 4:28:19 PM PST by The Iceman Cometh (Trump & Cruz - Together, a Better America!)
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To: The Iceman Cometh
A great many industrial ones, I see. All straight from the tool shed.
20 posted on 01/08/2016 4:32:03 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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