Posted by Tina
The President will begin his final year in office with a Town Hall meeting where he will lay out his plan to use executive action to enact gun control His justification is that Congress refuses to act. But his attitude is off base. Prior to leaving for the holiday break a reform bill was introduced in the House to address the mental health issue with respect to gun purchases. The bill has Speaker Ryan’s support and he has said Obama’s plans to use executive action represents a “dangerous level of executive overreach.” Ryan’s response to the President:
“While we don’t yet know the details of the plan, the president is at minimum subverting the legislative branch, and potentially overturning its will,” Ryan said in a statement. “No president should be able to reverse legislative failure by executive fiat, not even incrementally. The American people deserve a president who will respect their constitutional rights – all of them.” … “We all are pained by the recent atrocities in our country, but no change the president is reportedly considering would have prevented them,” Ryan said. “We have seen consistently that an underlying cause of these attacks has been mental illness, and we should look at ways to address this problem.” … In his statement Monday, Ryan said that the president is further intruding into “innocent Americans’ lives” and will be “targeting law-abiding citizens.”
Having a House Speaker who’s willing to engage the press on important issues is refreshing. I hope he also intends to be as aggressive on the House floor. It’s interesting to note that a recent Gallup Poll puts the economy and jobs at the top of the list for both Democrats and Republicans in terms of important issues facing the voters. Gun control wasn’t included in the report but a 2013 Gallup poll found only 4% of Americans think gun control is an “important problem facing the country.”
It would seem the President isn’t interested in working with Congress or the will of the people.
Progressives are masters at changing the subject to draw voters attention away from the issues that are important to them like jobs and the economy. Obama’s threat to go around Congress and change our gun laws is another example. Leading topic in the news today is Obama and the Oregon ranchers, not the economy and jobs.
Ryan didn’t do too well with the budget-busting $pending plan that sailed through Clowngress last year. He’s facing some heat from conservatives in his home state where they’re trying to give him the Eric Cantor primary treatment because of it.
So far, it’s just speechifying from both Obumble and Ryan. Will have to wait for the details to see if Ryan is actually a leader against Obumble’s goofernment overreach or if he is a John Boenher clone.
President Obama doesn’t see terrorists as a problem, just armed citizens.
Hillary will be 8 more years of steady nails in the coffin of our freedom.
Quite Frankly both are a problem…so when he says congress blocked a bill that would not allow terrorists to buy guns here ? I think this action was directly affiliated to foreign terrorists who the NRA is quite happy to have guns sold to.
An Armed violent criminal or mentally deranged citizen is a threat to all of us. Freedom? Freedom to be safe from verified crazies is a problem?
Exactly what is in this action that so threatens you?
You should feel threatened by any president who abuses the Constitution and constantly tries to override Congress. If a Democrat can do it, the next Republican in office can too.
America already has plenty of gun laws. Any further gun control is a farce. The left has a policy of letting criminals walk the streets but then also tries to disarm honest citizens who now need the extra protection because of the left’s soft on crime policies. You call this sanity? You’re clearly part of the problem.
Oh come on Dewey. Obama has not shown leadership in working with Congress which is in his job description. Instead he continues in his pattern of divisive, disrespectful rhetoric. Obama could have done any kind of gun legislation he wanted during the first 2 years of his presidency when he had control in both houses of Congress…he didn’t.
The last time he tried to get gun control passed he picked an election year…just like he has now. Where is his concern for the kiddies the rest of the time.
He said this morning we needed to address “the problem” but nothing he is suggesting addresses the problems.
And finally, the President actually managed to mention “gang” violence in his speech this morning. He went on and on about Gabby Gifford and Sandyhook but the gang reference was an afterthought…something they slipped in to the speech as an afterthought. Gang violence is a much bigger problem that will require real leadership to address. Apparently he doesn’t care all that much about the kids who, as he’s said, “could have been my son.” What a phony!
Off topic …
DON YOUR TIN FOIL HATS OR ALUMINUM COLANDERS! HILLARY SAYS SPACE ALIENS MAY ALREADY BE HERE!
“Yes, I’m going to get to the bottom of it.”
“I think we may have been [visited already by space aliens]. We don’t know for sure.”
Clinton also said she would like to look into Area 51, a secret military base in Nevada that has long been rumored to contain aliens. At first, she called it Area 54 and then corrected herself.
“He [campaign chairman John Podesta] has made me personally pledge we are going to get the information out.”
“One way or another. Maybe we could have, like, a task force to go to Area 51.”
Clinton promises to investigate UFOs
I don’t for a nano-second believe any of this. Hillary would never expose herself and her space alien husband.
Side Note:
Just so you know how deeply the invasion is embedded in our society, MIT researchers have analyzed the efficacy of tin foil hats for fending off mind control radio frequencies. The discovered that the hats attenuate some frequencies but amplify others. Guess which frequencies the government, multi-national corporations (Dewey will love that) and space aliens deploy!
On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study
The entire Clinton family BELONG in Area 51!
Along with the Bush Family……… Insiders are Insiders
Area 51 is a red herring, a ruse . Area 52 is the space alien stronghold. It is also where they house the Dorkster. They granted him internet access as part of the nefarious plan to pose space aliens as morons.
Pie this is great information. The number of Americans that believe in space aliens in one form or another is fairly large. Some believe we came from the stars, others just think we’ve been visited. So the Clintons have decided to tap into a new voter demographic, the space alien crowd, and timed the talking points to coincide with the Christmas release of the new Star Wars movie.
Tin foil hatters of the world unite!
Off topic again … The Real Hillary Clinton
Bill Clinton — Everything she touched she made better.
Hillary Clinton voluntarily defended the convicted rapist of a 12 year old victim, got him off for time served, and laughed about her achievement.
Rape victim — [Hillary Clinton] took me through hell.
The Clintons float above the rest of us; rules and morals don’t apply to them.
Ted Cruz’s disingenuous response to fund raise off PBO’s Actions
http://support.tedcruz.org/obama-wants-your-guns/aa/
These Politicians really do play their base like a fiddle.
I wonder how many millions “Obama Gonna Git Yer Gun” has raised.
Funny he joked today and said “I’m not gonna take your guns” Will Americans ever grow up?
The Dorkster sucks up to Obama again, Like no one saw that coming.
What good are new laws that hinder law abiding citizens, especially when the Obama administration refuses to adequately prosecute purchases involving straw buyers:
Obama scores zip on the “sincerity” meter today. His base will lap up his every word like the lap dogs they are…so? That’s politics, all we can do is expose disingenuous, underhanded, hypocritical crapola as much as possible.
I got curious and googled. Talk about pandering. In 2008 Obama’s rhetoric was dripping with praise for lawful gun owners. He wanted those NRA member votes!
At the same time he vowed to be tough on illegal purchasers…as President he has failed on that score. Check it out…
On the Issues:
From 2013, another Obama gun backfired when the CDC failed to vindicate his position.
Obama’s executive orders on guns is discussed by Judge Napolitano:
Why have more laws when the ones we have aren’t being enforced?
All Talk: Fewer Gun Crime Prosecutions Under Obama than George W. Bush:
“Syracuse University’s TRAC Reports recently revealed that Obama’s tough talk about increasing prosecution of federal gun laws was just that—talk. In fact, Obama’s annual prosecution of gun crimes has never reached the levels of prosecutions seen during George W. Bush’s last five years in office.
According to Yahoo News, one of Obama’s 23 executive directives in January 2013 was to “amp up prosecutions of federal gun laws.”
Yet TRAC Reports shows that prosecutions for gun violations actually began a decline in 2013. In fact, prosecutions in 2013 were lower than 2012. Gun crime prosecutions were even lower in 2014 and actually hit an all-time low for the Obama administration in 2015. For example, “during fiscal year (FY) 2014 the Justice Department said the government obtained 20.3 weapons convictions for every one million people in the United States… [and that dropped to] 19.1 weapons convictions for one million people in the United States during FY 2015.”
To put it another way, FY 2015 represents a 15.5 percent drop in prosecutions from 5 years ago and a 34.8 percent drop from the midway point of Bush’s eight years in office.
Ironically, crime-riddled Chicago is the perfect microcosm of the country as a whole when it comes to a failure to prosecute gun crimes coupled with a relentless push for more gun control. The NRA’s First Freedom summed it up thus: “In 2014 in Chicago, over 2,500 people were shot—nearly 400 of them fatally—and police seized more than 6,252 guns. Yet out of those 6,252 guns seized, Fardon’s federal prosecutors saw fit to pursue just 62 weapons prosecutions. In other words, for every 100 guns police seized, federal prosecutors made just one prosecution.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/27/talk-fewer-gun-crime-prosecutions-obama-george-w-bush/
Obama’s gun control push undercut by fall in prosecutions:
“The administration has overseen a striking drop in prosecutions of gun crimes, winning only about 6,000 convictions in 2015 — down more than 15 percent from five years ago, and giving added weight to claims by gun rights groups that President Obama has failed to enforce the laws already on the books.”
Continued..
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/dec/31/obama-gun-control-push-undercut-by-fall-in-prosecu/
The NRA Has Responded To Obama’s Executive Order Today. MUST WATCH.
https://youtu.be/JLTMkg1RLW0
Peggy I wish I could post that video, it’s a must see for anyone who really cares about stopping the mentally ill, felons, and dangerous people from purchasing guns. I thought the comparison to a fisherman with a holey net was perfect!
Thanks Tina and Pie. I too think it’s a really good video that everyone should watch. Personally, I think the NRA has done so much good from the beginning of it’s founding. Especially with all of the gun use and safety classes it teaches.
Thank God for the NRA’s fighting to protect our 2nd Amendment. I just bought a SW 642/38 and will be going for my CCW soon. And the NRA teaches the class.
Tina is often fountain of information. I hope the rubes appreciate it. False hope.
Oops, the above should have read “Both Tina and Peggy are often fountain of information. I hope the rubes appreciate it. False hope.”
Pie we exist for that very purpose and you are part of that mix. You have alerted our readers to many important turns of events as well…keep on truckin’ and thank you. This is a long race not a sprint. Immediate responses matter less than the long term outcome.
Another reason why the Democrats can NOT occupy the WH in 2017.
https://scontent.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xta1/v/t1.0-9/10628218_712034982257211_2996323049063448893_n.jpg?oh=f2c03623fe7013360f00138b8f3e3487&oe=570CF88C
Good find Peggy. Gun sales are up, crime is down, but the Obama administration is doing it’s best to reverse the trend!
Ditto.
When Democrats become as concerned for unborn babies and black kids on the streets of Chicago I might begin to listen to what they have to say about gun control.
Watch this amazing 4-D video of a baby on the inside not yet born.
https://www.facebook.com/MeddyBear.Net/videos/900425126743429/?fref=nf
Interesting video, Peggy. How old is the fetus at that stage?
From the shape of the baby’s head at the very beginning of the video it’s looks like it’s in the first trimester and grows into a baby ready to meet her/his mom, dad, brother, sister and grandparents.