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“This is our first task as a society: keeping our children safe. This is how we will be judged. We can’t put this off any longer.”
– Barack Obama 1/16/2013
“The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.”
Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler, Publ. Houghton Miflin, 1943, Page 403
Interesting. Speculation begins about Rand Paul’s mid-east trip being a precursor to a potential presidential bid. Your thoughts?
WASHINGTON TIMES – Sen. Rand Paul doesn’t explicitly deny that his eight-day visit to the Holy Land represents the launch of a 2016 Republican presidential nomination run, describing the trip as “more an effort to become part of an international stage.”
But at least some of the 40 evangelical Protestant leaders traveling with Mr. Paul think otherwise.
“This trip to meet with Israelis, Arabs and Palestinians is absolutely the first step in his 2016 White House campaign,” said David Lane, evangelical political organizer and president of the Los Angeles-based Pastors and Pews.
Mr. Paul joined the pastors on a tour bus climbing its way to the Israeli side of the 9,000-foot Golan Heights; the other side is Syrian territory. (more…)
“I will put everything I’ve got into this and so will Joe [Biden]. But I tell you, the only way we can change is if the American people demand it,” said Obama. “We are going to need voices in those areas and congressional districts where the tradition of gun ownership is strong.”
“It can’t just be the usual suspects,” he continued. “This will not happen unless the American people demand it.”
Let me emphasize that central line again: ……”We are going to need voices in those areas and congressional districts where the traditions of gun ownership is strong“….. FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE !
(excerpt from Huffpo) […] The proposal, which comes at the end of a month-long review process spearheaded by Vice President Joe Biden, is broken down into four key subsections: law enforcement, the availability of dangerous firearms and ammunition, school safety and mental health.
In an effort to touch on all four of those elements, the president recommended:
Please watch this video before proceeding. This is OCTOBER 16th.
Brace yourselves – President Obama will announce his gun restrictions tomorrow. He will pander to his base and be surrounded by children, parents, educators and community activists to maintain the optic of pressure against the opposition to his efforts. His Executive Orders will be portrayed as “brave”, “compassionate”, “bold”, and “courageous”, to defend the nations children from horrible extremist gun owners.
WASHINGTON DC – President Obama will unveil his gun violence proposals Wednesday at the White House, according to people who have been briefed on the event. Obama has invited gun control groups to the White House Wednesday, representatives of three groups that have received invitations told POLITICO.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney announced this afternoon that President Obama will unveil a “concrete package” of gun control proposals including assault weapons bans, high capacity ammunition magazine bans, and closing loopholes on background checks.
Carney said that the president will be joined by Vice President Joe Biden as well as children who wrote to the president after the Newtown shootings. (more…)
A Politico report (below) says that Vice-President Biden will outline nineteen possible Executive Actions that President Obama could take. I Had an interesting conversation earlier today about this. On one hand you have people saying that President Obama cannot use his executive power to “change” gun laws; Call those people Traditional Reference Thinkers.
On the other hand you have people who recognize President Obama has previously ignored his own Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) regarding the use of Executive Orders and bypassing congress; Call those people Non-Traditional Reference Thinkers.
Example Here……. and HERE…… and the most staggering example HERE, when he became the first president in history to override his own Office of Legal Counsel and found new lawyers willing to agree with him.
“Presidents have the legal authority to override the legal conclusions of the Office of Legal Counsel and to act in a manner that is contrary to its advice, but it is extraordinarily rare for that to happen. Under normal circumstances, the office’s interpretation of the law is legally binding on the executive branch”.
(*Note, how rare is it for the President to ignore the Top Legal Advice of the OLC? It’s never happened before….EVER. That’s how rare !…. ) (more…)
Happily I’ll admit there is a remarkable and growing furor toward the Obama administration about their absolute entrenched position on pending gun ownership restrictions. Maybe a line in the sand is visible to the Fabian Socialists, maybe.…
Rand Paul emphasizes: “President Obama is not a king… usurpation will not be tolerated”
Mark Levin weighs in too: “The imperial presidency” (more…)
We know political whores when we see them. But combine a “Rat Fink” with a political whore and you get a Chuck Schumer:
Fink – (n): A contemptible person. An unpleasant, disappointing, or contemptible person. To withhold promised support or participation: They said they’d help us, but then finked out.
I knew something about the multiple reports of Chuck Schumer asking retailers not to sell “assault style” rifles was not passing the sniff test. Like a typical prog-snake in the grass aka “fink”, and despite the numerous outlets running that story (including Associated Press), it is not on his official “Press Releases”. (more…)
WASHINGTON DC – The White House has informed House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that it will miss the legal deadline for sending a budget to Congress. […] “Late Friday evening, Deputy Director Zients confirmed that for the fourth time in five years, the president’s budget will not be submitted in compliance with the law,” the aide said. (article)
Yet today President Obama presents his administration as concerned about the fiscal state of the union, and declares “we are not a deadbeat nation”.
The last federal budget was signed into law Sept of 2007 by President Bush. Since then not a single day of President Obama’s term(s) in office have any accompanying budget. (more…)