{"id":35448,"date":"2013-05-04T16:34:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T20:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35448"},"modified":"2013-05-04T16:34:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T20:34:09","slug":"cruz-challenges-bite-me-to-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35448","title":{"rendered":"Cruz challenges Bite Me to debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/ted-cruz-challenges-joe-biden-to-debate-about-gun-control\/article\/2528799\">Politico<\/a> reports some of the best blogging news I&#8217;ve heard since the 2012 vice presidential debate between Paul Ryan and Joe Bite Me. Senator Ted Cruz who almost made Dianne Feinstein cry during their discussion of gun control, has challenged Joe Bite Me to a &#8220;discussion&#8221; on reducing crime (i.e. gun control);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cruz indicated that he doesn\u2019t regard Biden as a formidable opponent, noting that Biden\u2019s home defense advice \u2014 firing a shotgun twice into the air \u2014 \u201cis very useful, if it so happens that you\u2019re being attacked by a flock of geese.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/wp\/2013\/05\/03\/ted-cruz-challenges-biden-to-gun-control-debate\/\">Washington Post<\/a> quotes Cruz;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf Vice President Biden really believes the facts are on his side and this is not an exercise in political power, I would think he would welcome the opportunity to talk about the sources of violent crime and how we can do everything we can to stop it,\u201d Cruz said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is supposed to be a discuss, right? That&#8217;s what they told us before they started preaching to us and telling us to sit down and shut up. <\/p>\n<p>The video of Cruz&#8217; challenge from CBS;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<embed src=\"http:\/\/cnettv.cnet.com\/av\/video\/cbsnews\/atlantis2\/cbsnews_player_embed.swf\" scale=\"noscale\" salign=\"lt\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" background=\"#333333\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" FlashVars=\"si=254&#038;&#038;contentValue=50146140&#038;shareUrl=http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-250_162-57582849\/ted-cruz-invites-biden-to-debate-him-on-gun-laws\/\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico reports some of the best blogging news I&#8217;ve heard since the 2012 vice presidential debate &hellip; <a title=\"Cruz challenges Bite Me to debate\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35448\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cruz challenges Bite Me to debate<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}