President Obama is Angry About the Gun Bill
President Obama spoke some hours back on the failure of the gun bill to pass the Senate. He’s clearly angry and he’s quite right that this is a shameful moment for a Government that is supposed to represent us. If you haven’t seen his remarks, this is the video from TPM (they seem edited, to me):
Please Mr. President — be mad at these idiots and start campaigning against this minority now.
EDIT: TPM points out that Mitch McConnell posted this on his Facebook page after the vote:
Perhaps it is time to link up the #gunfail effort to this.
The tone was right. I hope he keeps it up. The GOP and those craven Dems that fear the NRA are in dire need of an ass-kicking at the polls.
Yawn.
If Obama would have spent the last 5 years pointing out how full of crap the GOP was instead of trying to negotiate with them we would be in a better place now. All Obama has now is hollow rhetoric.
2016 can’t get here soon enough. I look forward to a democratic president with some balls.
Go Hillary.
The Ds that voted against it were Baucus, Begich, Heitcamp, Pryor.
Will Bunch speaks for me:
What happened to Obama’s usual strategy of making the bill more Republican until it passes?
Still can’t get my head around this vote. I’m not sure what is more shocking. That this has failed, or that buying guns online without background checks has been legal all along.
Even as a gun owner myself, I can’t tell you how disappointed I am at the inability to pass even the simplest of measures. Perhaps it’s time to lobby for amending the Constitution instead.
Obama is going about this all wrong. He should define mass shootings as terrorism and wrap up the assault weapons ban and background checks into an anti-terrorism bill.
im not comfortable using the specter of terrorism to get this done. While I agree with you, to the extent that people live in “terror” of an idiot with an AK, it isn’t necessarily an organized conspiracy to go shoot people…. at least as far as the gun suppliers working WITH the killers. We have to go through x-rays because of “terrorism”, we have to throw people in jail for possessing a few joints because of “terrorism”, we should be wary of Mexicans, because they might actually be terrorists…. you get the idea.
This is finally FINALLY the Obama I’ve wanted to see all along. Some have asked what i want out of him when it comes to fighting the repukes….. This. The vote was defeated, but he called them out on their game and their lies.
“2016 can’t get here soon enough. I look forward to a democratic president with some balls. ”
I believe they are called “Thatchers”
What happened to Obama’s usual strategy of making the bill more Republican until it passes?
This is how you know that puck is pretty much just looking for theater here. If he was at all familiar with this bipartisan bit of business he would know that it was already weak tea.
You have to admit it is a departure. In previous major filibusters, Obama has been secretly on the side of defeat anyway. This seems different.
If Gun Free Zones don’t work, why does the Senate feel the need to have one?
Perhaps if our Senators felt the same vulnerability ordinary citizens face, they would understand how nearly 90% of the nation felt.
The spectrum of terrorism is already part of this issue (although on the terrorist side). There are Al Qaeda videos telling would be terrorists to buy guns at gun shows in America because they won’t even have to show id. And the NRA successfully lobbied against including chemical tags in gunpowder which would have aided in the Boston terror attack investigation.
From the New Yorker: How Background Checks Died