Jim Geraghty, The Morning Jolt:
Today President Obama travels to Colorado to “meet with law enforcement and community leaders to discuss the gun control package signed into law by Gov. John Hickenlooper.”
That’s a three-hour flight, right?
At $179,750 per hour, that comes out to $1,078,500 in costs for Air Force One for the trip.
That’s just about the cost of public tours of the White House for one year.
Or the cost of Joe Biden’s two hotel rooms in England and France. Or one of Michelle’s ski weekends.
But then, I guess we can always just consider that “stimulus” spending.
Incidentally, when Obama meets with the “law enforcement community,” any chance he’ll be meeting with the Colorado Sheriffs who have told both he and Hickenlooper to get stuffed? Because that would be, like, totally boss.
And yet, somehow I don’t hold out much hope. Our President likes to be surrounded by adoring worshippers, not critics. And once again he’s signaling — to all who wish to see what’s right before all of our eyes — that, for Democrats, the role of each state is to support the national party’s agenda, no matter what the state’s constituencies want. It’s a demand for fealty to the throne, with rewards for those who relent and promises of torment for those who don’t.
Obama’s visit — like so much else he does — is symbolic, not of “compromise” or “common sense reform,” but rather of what the left thinks it can accomplish if it doesn’t break ranks.
Why, a few more years like this and these pesky states with their outmoded state constitutions will finally and forever be brought to heel. Which might seem a bad idea — centralizing so much power in a representative republic in the hands of far-flung, temporarily elected politicians.
But that’s only until you remind yourself that this is all being done for the children. And who among us not completely infused with evil would want to let them down?
Is this the part where he says he’s not taking away our guns, as he takes away our guns?
I saw that already.
I should have said, “tries to take away our guns.”
Children are noisy and stink.
There. I said it.
But eventually they grow up and get jobs and take care of you in your —
Oh.
Shit.
american law enforcement is an increasingly fascist enterprise
it reminders me of nazi germany
Someday you must tell us what it was like to live there.
Oddly, I see this as encouraging news.
Jeff notes: “Our President likes to be surrounded by adoring worshippers, not critics.”
Exactly.
If he thought he still had momentum, he’d be out there campaigning in another state, not spiking in the ball in one where he’s already won.
[…] Protein Wisdom has a nice way of juxtaposing the economic choices. Flying this useless man to read a teleprompter is very expensive. Throughout this nation, bankruptcy is the status of many government entities from the municipal level, through the state, and right up to the federal level. If I ran my home economy like the government runs its affairs, I’d lose my home and everything else. The day of reckoning is coming, it is only a matter time. Money just doesn’t grow on trees. That’s hope and change for nation of idiots. […]
Next stop after Colorado: San Francisco. Way to carry the battle to the enemy, Barky!
I consider it an encouraging development. Given Teh Won’s propensity for bowing to enemies and screwing over his allies, I hope the people of Denver and San Francisco are as worried as I am happy.