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Barack Obama can't pass gun control despite 90 per cent support.
The Telegraph ^ | April 18th, 2013 | Tim Stanley

Posted on 04/18/2013 5:45:28 AM PDT by apillar

Yesterday, the most modest of gun control proposals died in the Senate. It would have expanded background checks to people purchasing weapons at gun shows and online sales, enjoyed 90 per cent support among the public and came on the back of the tragedy at Newtown. Yet, despite all that it had going for it, the Toomey-Manchin bill raised just 54 votes – six short of the number necessary for passage. “This is a pretty shameful day for Washington,” said Obama afterwards. It wasn’t exactly a red letter day for him, either.

Barack Obama is a lame duck president. Nobody listens to what he says anymore, nobody is interested in winning his approval and nobody much cares if he thinks they have “let the country down”. This is typical for a second-term president who has lost all their leverage because they’re no longer running for office and everybody is patiently waiting for the day when he quits the White House. But Obama's difficult personality has doubled the size of the challenge. Gloating in victory, adolescent in defeat – the Prez doesn’t make it easy to work with him. Why should conservative senators give him a legislative victory after he has spent four years painting them as knuckle-dragging rednecks who hate women and the poor?

Whatever your position on gun control, yesterday’s events are a damning indictment of Obama’s presidency – a flash of style, lots of soaring rhetoric and, when the votes are actually counted, little show for any of it. America has four more years of this lame-duck president telling them that it has let him down. If only he could tear up the Constitution and rule by diktat he might save himself a little disappointment. Alas, American democracy is a stickler for rules.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; obama; obamagunpresser; secondamendment
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To: adorno

IF there is such widespread support, why doesn’t he go the whole hog and began a campaign to either change or repeal the 2nd amendment through the correct route?

As we all know, that worked so well getting the Equal Rights Amendment passed.


101 posted on 04/18/2013 10:33:22 AM PDT by Darnright ("I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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To: Darnright; Grampa Dave; AuntB; Tennessee Nana; GOPJ; PGalt; stephenjohnbanker; sickoflibs; ...
IF there is such widespread support for gun control, why doesn’t BO go whole hog and campaign to either change, or repeal, the 2nd amendment? As we all know, that worked so well getting the Equal Rights Amendment passed.

No more callers please---we have a winner.

Heh---good one. Deserves a repeat with more eyes.
And as one wit posted---"BO's not a duck---he's just lame."

ROTFL.

102 posted on 04/18/2013 10:53:40 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Mr. K

I read that 90% number...the other day. And wondered aloud...where did that number come from????


103 posted on 04/18/2013 10:55:31 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Life is a bitch. If it was easy, we would call it a slut)
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To: Liz; Darnright; Grampa Dave; Tennessee Nana; GOPJ; PGalt; stephenjohnbanker; sickoflibs

LOL!


104 posted on 04/18/2013 11:01:52 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: All
BO'd make a bad screen actor--he only knows two emotions:(1) gloating in victory, and, (2) a temper-throwing meanie in defeat.

He expects victory?

When he's used the office of the presidency--not to unite as he promised---but to tar gun owners and their supporters as redneck clingers who hate women and the poor so much they might even take them out---if they don't get checked by Congress.

No one deserved this defeat more than BO.

105 posted on 04/18/2013 11:04:06 AM PDT by Liz
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To: xzins
It’s obviously, on its face, a flat out lie

I think you nailed it already....... it's likely one of those lies that they hope will be repeated enough to "become true".......

106 posted on 04/18/2013 11:17:39 AM PDT by Lakeshark (!)
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To: bert; All

” An attack on Boston is an attack on Neo Europa central. Two deaths on the streets of boston trump a hundred deaths in the wasteland of Texas.

The attack on the non americans in boston is a terrible tragedy. The death of real Americansin Texas stands for naught.”

NAILED it.


107 posted on 04/18/2013 11:18:15 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: Liz; All

http://www.amazon.com/Whiny-Little-Bitch-Excuse-Filled-ebook/dp/B003VYBSKS


108 posted on 04/18/2013 11:23:16 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: apillar

The 90% number was made up out of thin air and now all sorts of people are quoting it like it came down from Mount Sinai on stone tablets. 98% of statistics are made up - how can people be so stupid to not see that?


109 posted on 04/18/2013 11:31:07 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: apillar
The important part of the headline is - Truly, he is a lame-duck president

I cannot believe that 90 % of the public support this when only 4% of Americans Think Gun Control is an Important Problem
110 posted on 04/18/2013 11:37:22 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Gaffer
To them, their claimed 90% is like the claims of the Global Warming Scam that “the science is settled”.

You're right. Junk science. If they wanted a 99.99% approval they could have asked "Do you think innocent children should be shot with a gun?" All of us would say "NO".

The press is under the impression there are people FOR killing Children and people AGAINST killing children. THEY ARE WRONG. All of us are against children being murdered. Some of us feel creating gun free zones that attract killers is dangerous for kids. We think liberals endanger children because they're wedded to a unicorn world...

111 posted on 04/18/2013 12:27:35 PM PDT by GOPJ (New AP term for Illegal Aliens IS Undocumented Democrats.... Jay Leno)
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To: All

Given that the first paragraph is full of half-truths and outright lies, is the article really worth reading?


112 posted on 04/18/2013 2:09:51 PM PDT by Peet (Come back with a warrant.)
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To: baddog 219

“do not knell”?


113 posted on 04/18/2013 2:18:23 PM PDT by Peet (Come back with a warrant.)
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To: apillar
[Article] If only he could tear up the Constitution and rule by diktat he might save himself a little disappointment. Alas, American democracy is a stickler for rules.

Has this writer been paying attention?

114 posted on 04/18/2013 6:24:18 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: bert
An attack on Boston is an attack on Neo Europa central.

Correct. A Boston sportswriter was videotaped on network news last night saying "Boston is the cradle of liberty and the center of the universe". They have a special sense of their specialness.

They need to be in their own country. Elect me emperor, and they will be. They and downstate New York and the rest of New England, so they can go on being special together.

115 posted on 04/18/2013 6:26:59 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: GOPJ
You're right. Junk science.

And push polls, pushed by politically-obsessed media personalities like Larry O'Donnell and his ilk.

116 posted on 04/18/2013 6:29:14 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: apillar
A remarkably balanced article.
Well, he is completely wrong about the "90%" support, but given the tone of the piece I think that might be the results of an 'editor' hanging their own headline on the piece.

Whatever your position on gun control, yesterday’s events are a damning indictment of Obama’s presidency – a flash of style, lots of soaring rhetoric and, when the votes are actually counted, little show for any of it. America has four more years of this lame-duck president telling them that it has let him down. If only he could tear up the Constitution and rule by diktat he might save himself a little disappointment. Alas, American democracy is a stickler for rules.

Maybe 4 more years....maybe not.

117 posted on 04/18/2013 6:46:22 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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To: Peet
Yes.
Especially the last paragraph.

(see post #117)
118 posted on 04/18/2013 6:48:23 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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