Stuff the Beast and Disarm the Victims
Is President Obama preparing a second-term stealth campaign against guns? Wayne LaPierre thinks so:
Barack Obama spent his entire political career proudly and publicly pushing for the most radical anti-gun positions you can imagine. He endorsed a total ban on the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns. He opposed right-to-carry laws. He voted to ban nearly all commonly used hunting-rifle ammunition.
During the presidential primary debates, Obama even vowed to re-impose the discredited Clinton gun ban, which banned many commonly owned firearms used for hunting and self-defense.
Obama hasn’t had a sudden change of heart; rather, he’s making a purely political calculation by staying quiet on the gun issue until the time is right. In the meantime, he’s gearing up for his second-term assault on the Second Amendment in a number of ways.
Obama always plays the long the game. He did it against Hillary Clinton in the primaries, carefully picking up caucuses while she focused primarily on the big states. He did it with bin Laden. It worked both times. And don’t forget that Fast & Furious was all about killing Mexicans in order to stir up support for more gun control.
And don’t forget this Krauthammer gem from mid-2010:
The critics don’t understand the big picture. Obama’s transformational agenda is a play in two acts.
Act One is over. The stimulus, Obamacare, and financial reform have exhausted his first-term mandate. It will bear no more heavy lifting. And the Democrats will pay the price for ideological overreaching by losing one or both houses, whether de facto or de jure. The rest of the first term will be spent consolidating these gains (writing the regulations, for example) and preparing for Act Two.
The next burst of ideological energy — massive regulation of the energy economy, federalizing higher education, and “comprehensive” immigration reform (i.e., amnesty) — will require a second mandate, meaning reelection in 2012…
So 2012 is the real prize. Obama sees far, farther than even his own partisans. Republicans underestimate him at their peril.
There is no doubt this is the most important election since 1980. Much of what Reagan accomplished in his two terms and already been undone — and just look at the results.
Another four years like these and it will be too late to undo.
As I commented elsewhere, an increasingly common topic among micro and small business owners and managers is this: Will (my, your, their) company survive 5 more years?
Entrepreneurs tend to be a hearty, energetic lot, but they’re still reeling from the sustained beating of recession and “recovery.” Instead of growing, inventing and innovating, they’re struggling to regain lost ground and find even footing.
You’re right, Obama and the ObamaTrons have in 3 years undone 30 years. The mind boggles at how devastating 5 more years of Obama rule will be.
If Obama wins in ’12, then we will see a significant, if not crippling, Constitutional crisis. The Rs will almost certainly win the Senate. Which means they gain control of all committees and subsequent oversight in both houses of Congress.
With that dynamic in place, Obama will do what he can to shuffle funding around from what the Rs determine in their budgets, to what what he wants. The sh*tstorm that ensues will be epic. Were it not so critical to the health of the country, I’d be gleefully investing in popcorn and watching the cat fight from the stands. But it will be, potentially, a monstrous and globally life-altering problem.
And if Obama decides to pull a Roosevelt, and stack the courts, then we’re really screwed.
The Rs need to stop playing nice. The Ds established the rules for the ongoing blood feud. The Rs need to take their gloves off and give as good as they get. That’s the only way we’re going to see the Leftist agenda killed.
“There is no doubt this is the most important election since 1980. ”
I heard that about the 2008 election. And about the 2004 election. And about the 2000 election. And about several of the midterm elections in between.
I’m “most important election”ed out, thankyouverymuch. I just don’t believe it anymore. 2008 was the most important election, not only since 1980, but at least since WW2 and perhaps since 1860. And the wrong side won. Eight trillion dollars of debt later, I do not see a way forward, regardless of who wins. I want to see Barry Lackwit lose purely for vengeance’s sake, but I don’t expect whoever wins to be able to change things. Why do you?
Simple typo: ” Much of what Reagan accomplished in his two terms HAS already been undone —”
aaron (the last person who should be correcting anyone)
Respectfully, I disagree. With the exception of Ron Paul, there is no real difference between the Republican candidates for President and Obama. I briefly hoped that the 80 or so freshmen congressmen and women would do things differently, but to the joy of Aviation Week, they have gone along with the beltway crowd and continued to spend, spend, spend.
As to the newsletters and such from the 80s, and the other stuff, who cares at this point? But I’m not going to get into that argument. I’m a “Ronulan”, and proud of it.