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Obama should blame Tea Party, not NRA, for gun control defeat
Washington Examiner ^ | 4/28/2013 | Timothy P. Carney

Posted on 04/28/2013 6:05:39 PM PDT by markomalley

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1 posted on 04/28/2013 6:05:39 PM PDT by markomalley
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But that would mean admitting that ordinary Americans beat him...and not some “evil” organization which can be isolated and vilified.


2 posted on 04/28/2013 6:09:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: markomalley

No! He should blame the actual folks in flyover country that despise this kind of control! Yes, the Tea Party has more influence than the NRA for goodness sakes but it is a popular decision without regard to politics...something that our esteemed President can never understand!


3 posted on 04/28/2013 6:10:35 PM PDT by Deagle (quo)
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To: markomalley

The Kenyan needs to blame that pesky Bill of Rights and the Americans who stood up to the gun Nazis to protect their “civil rights”.


4 posted on 04/28/2013 6:11:44 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I got expelled from the "fundamental transformation" indoctrination center.)
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To: markomalley

Proud Tea Party Ping!

Also, Proud NRA Ping!


5 posted on 04/28/2013 6:12:24 PM PDT by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: markomalley

“...Obama should blame Tea Party, not NRA, for gun control defeat...”
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Whether you want to blame “the NRA”; or blame “the tea party”...
The NRA is made of of PEOPLE; and the Tea Party is made up of PEOPLE.
So, in either case, they are blaming their defeat on “WE, THE PEOPLE”.


6 posted on 04/28/2013 6:18:53 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: markomalley
Carney is hung up on the legitimacy of voting to destory a Constitutional amendment.

As usual, Obama and other Democrats decided that the best way to finesse the fact they'd done nothing about mental illness in decades was to lay the lash on the backs of law abiding people.

This is so typical of people who sell out to donors ~ in this case, the ACLU lawyers and their running dog lackeys.

7 posted on 04/28/2013 6:20:27 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Deagle
If our President is a smart as he thinks he is, he would realize that any attempt to repeal the 2nd amendment via statutes will always fail.

If the amendment can be repealed by statute, it can be "unrepealed" by statute since our government is not going to be in "progressive" hands forever.

Therefore, if progressives want gun registration and confisication, they must get 67 Senators and 38 states to agree to repeal the amendment.

Anything else will only be a disappointment to progressives.

8 posted on 04/28/2013 6:21:31 PM PDT by B.O. Plenty (Give war a chance........)
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To: markomalley

Obama can take his blame and shove it.


9 posted on 04/28/2013 6:23:22 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: markomalley
Our founding fathers deserve much of the credit for they had the wisdom and forseight to realize that oneday a POS like Obama would come along and need to be restrained.
10 posted on 04/28/2013 6:24:37 PM PDT by True Grit
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To: Deagle

This is who beat Obama, “Johnny Tremain - The Liberty Tree Theme Song,” at http://www.televisiontunes.com/Johnny_Tremain_-_The_Liberty_Tree.html


11 posted on 04/28/2013 6:27:54 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: B.O. Plenty

Actually if the President is as smart as he thinks he is he would never have attempted this is the first place...

But...Yes, you are right, he do NOT have the authority nor the power to overturn the Second Amendment, much as he might wish! The idea that 2/3rds of the Congress and 2/3rds or the States would even consider overturning this is absurd. This is the problem with this Administration - they are either nuts or think that they can ignore the Constitution.

Hopefully, the Supreme Court will interdict or if that does not work due to Liberal opinions, the people will revolt as they should. It can and should not stand!


12 posted on 04/28/2013 6:31:40 PM PDT by Deagle (quo)
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To: Deagle

Lots of typos there..just ignore and get the idea.


13 posted on 04/28/2013 6:34:15 PM PDT by Deagle (quo)
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To: Deagle

Yep, its a pain not having an edit function. Oh well, its for the best, I think.


14 posted on 04/28/2013 6:36:59 PM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: Springfield Reformer

Well, do have an edit function but sometimes get impatient to post and do not do due diligence - or miss silly things!

All my problem though - more time and forethought would eliminate those problems.


15 posted on 04/28/2013 6:41:26 PM PDT by Deagle (quo)
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To: Deagle
You know, Zer0 must have been smoking dope and chasing ....errr, women? in '94 when some of the same old pols tried to repeal the amendment via statute. A majority of the "progressive" pols lost....Newt was elected speaker..Clinton was forced to the right and the rest is history.

History may repeat in '14...exactly 20 years since it happened the first time.

Let us hope Obama's brain is so fried from dope that he is unable to learn anything from history...

16 posted on 04/28/2013 6:44:24 PM PDT by B.O. Plenty (Give war a chance........)
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To: Repeal The 17th
The NRA is made of of PEOPLE; and the Tea Party is made up of PEOPLE.

And it infuriates me when the POTUS slams us, we the people, on national TV as lowlifes for wanting to keep our rights.

17 posted on 04/28/2013 6:50:02 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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To: B.O. Plenty

Actually, the idea that Obama is anything other than a pot head is only the idea of the media. He is and has always been a very mediocre thinker (dim actually) and depends on others for support.

He is only doing what others tell him to do. He is the puppet of others and it would be nice to expose them but probably too late now. He is the orator (although I’m not sure how he became that) for others. Those that he has put in charge are far leftists and are causing major problems. If only the rest of the Federal Government understood and acted on it. Don’t expect that though as they are also feeding at the leftist trough.

We can only hope that it is not too late to overcome this lurch to the left by our Federal Government. I suspect that is may be too late though - it is very difficult to take back from those that you have provided for.


18 posted on 04/28/2013 6:52:33 PM PDT by Deagle (quo)
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To: markomalley

Obama was using Alinsky rules. You don’t attack an issue, you connect a person to the issue and attack the person- Wayne LaPierre, for example.

By blaming NRA “the people” don’t get to see that the real issue is millions of people melting the phones of Congress.

The lack of gun control then gets blamed on one evil organization.


19 posted on 04/28/2013 7:09:12 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: markomalley

I’ll accept the CREDIT under either banner!

I want the CREDIT for the last defeat AND THE NEXT DEFEAT!

“Blame” is reserved for Obama’s successes.


20 posted on 04/28/2013 7:20:55 PM PDT by G Larry (Darkness Hates the Light)
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