Senator Ted Cruz blasts President Obama for invoking Newtown victims to promote his agenda

President Obama gave a speech yesterday essentially shaming the country for not passing gun control measures in the wake of the Newtown Connecticut massacre. Senator Ted Cruz isn’t having any of it and released a statement taking the President to task for invoking the elementary school victims of a massacre to promote his left-wing agenda.
from Ted Cruz:

In any conversation about how to prevent future tragedies such as Sandy Hook, our focus should be on stopping criminals from obtaining guns. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration has failed to make this a priority — in 2010, out of more than 15,700 fugitives and felons who tried to illegally purchase a firearm, the Obama Justice Department prosecuted only 44. That is unacceptable.

It is saddening to see the President today, once again, try to take advantage of this tragic murder to promote an agenda that will do nothing to stop violent crime, but will undermine the constitutional rights of all law-abiding Americans. I am committed to working with Sens. Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Marco Rubio, and Jim Inhofe—and I hope many other colleagues—to use any procedural means necessary to protect those fundamental rights.

Cruz went into more detail about President Obama’s failure to prosecute violent criminals in his interview with Glenn Beck on Wednesday. This week, he and Rand Paul hand delivered a letter to Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid vowing to block any gun control efforts that come to the Senate floor. Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, and Jim Inhofe also signed the letter.