I know what you’re thinking: how can any Senator come out against common sense gun reform? He must be bought and paid for by the gun lobby. Or maybe the Jewish lobby. I mean, how else can you explain this ginning up of hysteria, this suggestion that by, for instance, compelling medical professionals to become deputized snitches, or empowering the CDC to politicize “gun violence” in order to set the stage for a repudiation of the second amendment, Obama is looking to take away some of your liberties?
How absurd! Obama sneers at such talk. He’s for the children, after all. And if you’re for the children, you can’t be tyrannical or do anything unconstitutional. So what is this Rand Paul teabagger on about?
CNS:
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says he plans to introduce a bill next week that “will nullify anything the president does that smacks of legislation.”
Paul spoke with Sean Hannity Wednesday night, hours after President Obama signed 23 executive orders on gun control.
Paul said several of those executive orders appear to be a case of Obama writing new law.
“That cannot happen,” Paul said. “The court struck (President Bill) Clinton down for trying this, and I’m afraid that President Obama may have this king complex sort of developing, and we’re going to make sure that it doesn’t happen.”
[…]
According to Talking Points Memo, Paul’s bill would also deny federal funding for the implementation of Obama’s executive actions on guns.
Paul said Obama has “a history of arrogance” in trying to legislate from the Oval Office. He mentioned Obama seeking a cap-and-trade program “through regulatory fiat” and ordering U.S. military strikes on Libya without congressional authority.
Hannity mentioned recess appointments when the Senate wasn’t in recess, an executive order allowing illegal immigrants to stay in the U.S., the president’s refusal to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, weakened welfare work requirements, and Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate.
“Is it all unconstitutional in your view?” Hannity asked. “Yes,” Paul replied. Paul noted that even some Republican presidents have “usurped their executive privilege to exert more authority than the Constitution gave them.”
“But, you know, our founders looked to Montesquieu, and Montesquieu wrote that there can be no liberty when you combine the executive and legislative powers. You have separation of powers, so the powers check and balance each other and I’m very concerned about this president. FDR had a little bit of this king complex also. We had to limit FDR finally because he served so many terms that I think he would have ruled in perpetuity. I’m very concerned about this president garnering so much power and arrogance that he thinks he can do whatever he wants.”
According to Paul, “the idea of checks and balances and separation of powers “should be a fundamental one that Democrats and Republicans alike would support, but I’m afraid that there isn’t much support on the Democrat’s side, but we’ll see.”
The nerve! Why does Rand Paul hate the children? And why do we allow what is so clearly his racial animus toward an historic President to hide behind phony policy differences? The fact of the matter is, Rand Paul, by refusing to grant this historic President free reign over all branches and functions of government, has shown himself to be a hater of black people, a defender of gun violence, and an enemy of common sense.
And I daresay that should any mental health professional get a hold of such information, Senator Paul, having proven himself a dangerous bigot who hates children, blacks, and common sense while simultaneously defending gun violence, will have his firearms privileges unceremoniously revoked.
For the greater good.
Amen.
CLASSIC.
Is Senator Rand Paul taking up the mantle last carried by Senator Robert Byrd in vigorously defending the powers and prerogatives of the senate?
Yea, like Obama would sign any bill that rolled back one of his EO’s. Good luck with that.
I thought these were more like executive ‘suggestions’ than orders. Congress still needs to run all of them through committee, was my understanding.
The only conclusion is that Rand Paul hates children. Hell, I bet he’s killed some himself. And probably eaten them. Besides being racist, bigoted, homophobic and lacking hearts, Republicans are also cannibals. Its true, I saw it on the internet. Bonjour!
I heart Rand Paul. That is all.
Missouri stands up to be counted:
HB170 states in part: “Any official, agent, or employee of the federal government who enforces or attempts to enforce any act, order, law, statute, rule, or regulation of the federal government upon a personal firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition that is owned or manufactured commercially or privately in the state of Missouri and that remains exclusively within the borders of the state of Missouri shall be guilty of a class D felony.”
Despite sending Claire McCaskill back to the senate and reelecting Jay Nixon as governor the Missouri House and Senate have Republican veto proof majorities. This could be interesting.
IIRC someone, Leigh? was asking about smaller home defense shotguns on a thread. Mossberg is bringing out smaller 20 gauge versions of their model 500 and 88. SHOT show video here.
It wasn’t me, geoff. Maybe missfixit?
The 2013 Obama campaign [to backdoor register all guns] begins.
Possibly leigh, my memory isn’t what it used to be, being an “old white guy” and all.
Senator Cruz one-ups him…
Seriously, where did Hillary put that reset button?
Oh, it was an “overcharge” button? That kind of explains everything, doesn’t it?
I like the Mossberg SA-20 with a magazine extension to 8+1 (if you use 2 and 3/4 ” shells).
They start at around $500.
http://www.mossberg.com/product/shotguns-autoloading-sa-20-pistol-grip/75781
That’s kind of steep for a Mossberg, isn’t it?
The one they were showing had standard an adjustable stock, pistol grip and an 8 round magazine tube. Making it an assault shotgun in NY. $500 MSRP seems about normal.
$500 MSRP seems about normal.
Okay. I see a lot of their cheaper guns here for less than $300. I didn’t pay much attention since the Mossberg we have, well had before the barn fire, is/was a different model and one of the cheaper long guns we have/had.
The political is the personal and vice versa. This will get worse and worse, you betcha.
So long as cross-burnings aren’t involved, I’m cool with it…
Geoffb, that’s because he would rather rule in (a Third World) hell(hole) than serve the free people of a constitutional republic.
Are the children asking , or are the children’s teachers –probably at the suggestion of the NEA– asking through the children?
Yeah. Then they asked for a pony and pudding for dinner.
They are children. If they want to speak out on a law that would end the censorship of a good fart joke, maybe then I’d listen. Otherwise? They are children.
What the fuck has happened to this country?
We’ve been “Fluked” and some 51% like it and are asking, “Thank you sir, can I have another?”
We’ve drifted like a blown away hat, swept down the road of soft despotism towards the servile state.
Children are much wiser than we are. That’s why we let them make their own decisions.
Jimmy Carter proved that when he made Amy his National Security Advisor, right?
You know, Christopher Lasch has a lot of good observations about what happened.
Of course you have to work your way through, filtering out the Marxian analysis, discounting the misdiagnoses of various problems.
But the descriptive material is quite good.
The “Fluking” machine is assembled.
Oh Goody. The Permanent Revolution now has its very own Committee of Public Saftey.
Civil disobedience is now unavoidable. We should just get out in front of it and ask to divide the nation, 25 states each. Let the left have its Utopia, we’ll take our constitutional republic. The South and southwest will do just fine, thanks.
And with that cheery thought….
“Civil disobedience is now unavoidable. We should just get out in front of it and ask to divide the nation, 25 states each.”
The left hasn’t won the confidence of 25 states.
Chicago already has one.
Yes, let’s embed “global postitioning system chips” in new guns — that’ll work. And antennae and batteries, of course. And when the guns go lost or stolen, I’m sure the batteries won’t be removed, or lose their charge.
It’s magic! Our brilliant representatives might as well just assign each handgun it’s own personal house-elf to keep dibs on it.
It would be insufferable if we were merely ruled by the “best and brightest”. That our supposed betters are demonstrably a pack of blithering idiots is, I don’t know, super-insufferable or something.
My (now long gone) .357 magnum revolver would have done to a GPS chip what slippy and his ilk did to a whole boxcar load of irony meters.
Don’t even ask about my brother’s (also long gone) .44 magnum. Or the Desert Eagle .50AE I never could afford (nor the titanium wrist implants it would have taken to survive firing it).
He must be bought and paid for by the gun lobby. Or maybe the Jewish lobby.
Or maybe even the most insidious group of them all: The Jewish Gun Lobby. They put the “Oy!” in ‘Recoil’.
A Federal buy back program.
“Support Assault Firearms Elimination and Reduction for our Streets Act”? SAFE-ROSA? Liberty is anything but safe around Rosa.
I think it’s supposed to be “SAFER Streets.” But her bill will make streets safer just as soon as the mirrors in her home are safe.
I don’t mean to say she ugly, but she ugly.
Can the weapons be surrendered to the nearest gun shop? ‘Cuz those guys need something to put on the shelves…
I figured that was what she was calling it but went for a different interpretation.
And I agree, but the worst ugly is inside.
SAFE-FROM-ROSA would be my preference. I implemented it myself by no longer watching her speeches on C-SPAN.
Then she turns up playing Spock Prime in that last Star Trek movie. <shudder>
The Committee of Public Safety is going to be wonderful! It is empowered by all of us “to turn our shared values into legislative action” and create “the world as it should be.” The joy* of it has me “all in.”
*“What is the greatest joy in life?”
“The Joy of Duty!!”
Here’s another, Geoff:
You’re both wrong. There is no joy in life. Life is Pain.
Anyone who says differently is selling something. *
Nah. Nothin’ painful ’bout a box of chocolates, Ernst.*
Tell that to the guy who ate the after-dinner mint.
I’m not even going to bother to link it. Because we all know I’m right!
The Chocolate City of the South found out its chocolate covered turd of a Mayor was painful in the living through. He, on the other hand, was havin’ a ball until a day or so ago.
You’re awarded 25 internet points for making a Python reference that wasn’t Life of Brian or Holy Grail.
In light of all the discussion lately I’m going to say that my quote at 6:10 above is missing a critical word.
i thunk baracky “jumped the shark” on 1/18/13
If heartaches were commercials we’d all be on Tee Vee.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIYjz5ne7R4