American Thinker "There are several reasons why the president's efforts on the gun control issue failed, but perhaps the two biggest were his arrogant assumptions regarding his own powers, and his refusal to acknowledge that the issue was a constitutional one, not a public safety matter." More... ...."How many calls to Democrats did he make? How many to Republicans? Besides jawboning at photo-ops across the country, just what did the president himself do to get this bill passed?"
President Obama needs an attitude adjustment "President Obama's reaction was a pitiful performance or the actions of a man who doesn't get the political reality around him. He is also a man who does not respect those who disagree with him." As someone once put it, this man has ice water in his veins.
With these next posts, Lucianne remarks on Obama's reaction: "The subsequent presidential hissy fit that followed was anything but presidential."
Barack Obama can't pass gun control despite 90 per cent support. Truly, he is a lame-duck president
"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."
Say this three times real fast: Blame Bloomberg "So people look at Bloomberg-land and ask, where is he leading us? Where does he want to go? The way we interpret the decision of the Senate yesterday is that it is saying, “not one more inch in that direction.” Good for the Senate."
Senate gun defeat makes Obama angry--and weaker
"Take Montana's Max Baucus. Please. He voted against Obama's wishes on background checks. Now, Baucus is a notorious political shape-shifter the year before any reelection, as he stops ACLU-ing and starts NRA-ing for the gullible folks back home."He now hopes you don't, but you may recall that Baucus was a key architect of ObamaCare, currently crumbling under the weight of widespread state resistance and its own regulatory-bureaucratic-costs."
The TW posted this back in December: Seeking an effective argument FOR gun control
Here, two respected writers discuss the case against taking away individual firearms from Americans. Yes, it is true that if guns did not exist everywhere in this nation those little children in Sandy Hook would be living right now and I only wish that were the case. But it is not and there are violent people out there in their thousands and they are armed; willing and lusting to watch innocent people die in bunches by their hands. How, exactly do you gun-control advocates plan to remove those weapons from their blood-thirsty hands?
I will honestly look for a reasoned argument FOR gun control that contains effective means for keeping us safe from those who carry weapons illegally and are willing to do us harm. Cartoons showing crazed, wild-eyed gun owners don't wash.
As yet, I have seen only politically correct, emotional responses to the issue that have no value other than simply making a politician look as if they are doing something. TD
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