Victorious Obama rockets back onto ‘gun control’ radar with UN arms treaty

Mere hours after declaring victory and his intent for “reaching out and working with leaders of both parties to meet the challenges we can only solve together,” President Barack Obama demonstrated some of that “flexibility” he predicted he’d have after the election when his administration backed a “U.N. committee's call…to renew debate over a draft international treaty to regulate the $60 billion global arms trade,” Reuters reported today.

“Arms control advocates had hoped Obama would back the treaty if he was re-elected,” Reuters explained, and that he would was a given, as it was his administration that reversed previous policy in 2009 and resurrected U.S. participation based on “consensus,” albeit that was not something his campaign felt prudent to advertise in an election deemed by many a toss-up.

While many will point to the need for Senate ratification and prior pledged opposition by enough members of that body to defeat such efforts, other researchers have cautioned not to rely on that as a guarantee. But at this point, the likelihood of the treaty's passage is not the story.

Some of the talking heads on the news networks following last night’s election returns were speculating about how a second-term Obama would reach across the aisle, how he would focus on his legacy, how he would compromise in the spirit of bipartisanship and getting things done. Based on the administration’s first term actions, such outreach has never been this president’s style.

MARK LEVIN: We conservatives, we do not accept bipartisanship in the pursuit of tyranny. Period. We will not negotiate the terms of our economic and political servitude. Period. We will not abandon our child to a dark and bleak future. We will not accept a fate that is alien to the legacy we inherited from every single future generation in this country. We will not accept social engineering by politicians and bureaucrats who treat us like lab rats, rather than self-sufficient human beings. There are those in this country who choose tyranny over liberty. They do not speak for us, 57 million of us who voted against this yesterday, and they do not get to dictate to us under our Constitution.

We are the alternative. We will resist. We're not going to surrender to this. We will not be passive, we will not be compliant in our demise. We're not good losers, you better believe we're sore losers! A good loser is a loser forever. Now I hear we're called 'purists.' Conservatives are called purists. The very people who keep nominating moderates, now call us purists the way the left calls us purists. Yeah, things like liberty, and property rights, individual sovereignty, and the Constitution, and capitalism. We're purists now. And we have to hear this crap from conservatives, or pseudo-conservatives, Republicans.

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