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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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.
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.
I read that 90% number...the other day. And wondered aloud...where did that number come from????
LOL!
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.
I think you nailed it already....... it's likely one of those lies that they hope will be repeated enough to "become true".......
” 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.
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?
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...
Given that the first paragraph is full of half-truths and outright lies, is the article really worth reading?
“do not knell”?
Has this writer been paying attention?
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.
And push polls, pushed by politically-obsessed media personalities like Larry O'Donnell and his ilk.
Maybe 4 more years....maybe not.
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