Obama Talks Limiting Assault Rifles

[ShepherdTX]

So he's obviously covered AK-47s in the hands of criminals and soldiers. Still wondering when he will outright say what he thinks of AK-47s in the hands of people who are neither criminals nor soldiers. Someone in the media, please ask him that....

[C-dub]

I saw this earlier today.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07 ... -massacre/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, asked Thursday about Obama's remarks on gun control the night before, said the Senate's packed schedule precludes any action on firearms legislation. Asked if the Senate might debate the issue next year, Reid said, "Nice try."

This might be the only thing I've ever liked that he's said. Even dingy Harry doesn't want to touch it.

[sjfcontrol]

I saw this earlier today.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07 ... -massacre/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, asked Thursday about Obama's remarks on gun control the night before, said the Senate's packed schedule precludes any action on firearms legislation. Asked if the Senate might debate the issue next year, Reid said, "Nice try."

This might be the only thing I've ever liked that he's said. Even dingy Harry doesn't want to touch it.

Senate's pacted schedule? What are they doing, passing a budget or something?

[G26ster]

The "Nice try" remark could simply mean he will not discuss it before the election. Why lose votes.

[C-dub]

The "Nice try" remark could simply mean he will not discuss it before the election. Why lose votes.

I did consider that or that it was a nice attempt to try and get him to talk further about it at all. I still don't trust him, but there are enough dems that don't want to touch gun control that I don't see how this could possibly get ratified let alone pass muster with the Constitution in the courts when challenged.

[The Mad Moderate]

I wish some republican would introduce a bill requiring everyone to buy an AR-15 or pay a tax, maybe we could get Bachmann to do it.

[sjfcontrol]

I wish some republican would introduce a bill requiring everyone to buy an AR-15 or pay a tax, maybe we could get Bachmann to do it.

Ah! We can call it "The Affordable Firearms Act"!

[Heartland Patriot]

I wish some republican would introduce a bill requiring everyone to buy an AR-15 or pay a tax, maybe we could get Bachmann to do it.

Ah! We can call it "The Affordible Firearms Act"!

Well, since you put it like THAT, lets go for it! Of course, we'll have to wait for 'em to pass it to see what's in it...

[The Annoyed Man]

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government ... s-Law-Firm
REVEALED: CORZINE’S MF GLOBAL WAS CLIENT OF ERIC HOLDER’S LAW FIRM
by WYNTON HALL 26 Jul 2012, 6:24 AM PDT

Those wondering why the Department of Justice has refused to go after Jon Corzine for the vaporization of $1.6 billion in MF Global client funds need look no further than the documents uncovered by the Government Accountability Institute that reveal that the now-defunct MF Global was a client of Attorney General Eric Holder and Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer’s former law firm, Covington & Burling.

There’s more.

Records also reveal that MF Global’s trustee for the Chapter 11 bankruptcy retained as its general bankruptcy counsel Morrison & Foerester--the very law firm from which Associate Attorney General Tony West came to DOJ.

And more.

As Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer explains in the Washington Times Thursday, the trustee overseeing MF Global’s bankruptcy is former FBI Director Louis Freeh. At Holder’s Senate confirmation hearing Freeh served as a character witness for Holder and revealed that Holder had previously worked for Freeh. “As general counsel,” Freeh said, “I could have engaged any lawyer in America to represent our bank. I chose Eric.”

And there's more. Holder is completely exposed and caught in his corruption now. It will take about a week or two before the fMSM begins to heat this story up. But when it does, calls for Holder's resignation will be loud and unavoidable.

[Oldgringo]

TAM wrote:
{snip}

And there's more. Holder is completely exposed and caught in his corruption now. It will take about a week or two before the fMSM begins to heat this story up. But when it does, calls for Holder's resignation will be loud and unavoidable.

Next should come the question/s of vetting and appointment and acceptance of Holder, eh?

What do Ulysses S. Grant and Barack Hussein Obama have in common?

[The Annoyed Man]

TAM wrote:
{snip}

And there's more. Holder is completely exposed and caught in his corruption now. It will take about a week or two before the fMSM begins to heat this story up. But when it does, calls for Holder's resignation will be loud and unavoidable.

Next should come the question/s of vetting and appointment and acceptance of Holder, eh?

What do Ulysses S. Grant and Barack Hussein Obama have in common?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant#Scandals

President Grant faced financial corruption charges or scandals in all federal departments during his two terms in office.[169] Some historians have emphasized Grant's responsibility for the corruption, while others have considered this exaggeration, and stress Grant's establishment of Civil Service reform and abolishment of the moiety system.[169] The President was by habit fiercely loyal and protective to those he befriended and complacently trusted; effectively reformers who desired integrity in the federal government became hostile to the Administration and caused a party split in 1872. This and his inability to establish personal accountability among his cabinet members and other subordinates facilitated many scandals. Although personally honest with his own money matters, Grant had difficulty in spotting corrupt individuals.[170] In November 1876, President Grant pardoned both William O. Avery and William McKee, who were convicted in connection with the Whiskey Ring tax evasion frauds in St. Louis; having served six months of their two year sentences.[171]

There were 11 scandals directly associated with Grant's two terms. The main scandals included Black Friday in 1869 and the Whiskey Ring in 1875. The primary instigator and contributor to these and other scandals was Grant's personal secretary, Orville E. Babcock, who indirectly controlled many cabinet departments and was able to delay investigations by reformers. Babcock had direct access to Grant at the White House and had tremendous influence over who could see the President.[172] Grant's political opponents used the phrase Grantism, coined by Sen. Charles Sumner during the Presidential election of 1872, to describe the many corruption charges during the Grant Administration.[173] The Crédit Mobilier scandal was exposed during the Grant Administration in 1872; the involvement of Vice-President Schuyler Colfax was an embarrassment to the Administration, but the wrong doing in that instance is not generally imputed to Grant's Presidency.[174] Robert C. Schenck, U.S. Ambassador to Britain, was involved with the Emma Silver Mine scandal, however, this embarrassment was not directly associated with President Grant or the State Department.

Grant appointed reformer Benjamin Bristow to the Secretary of Treasury in 1874, who uncovered and shut down the notorious Whiskey Ring. In order to help Bristow's investigation and clean house, Grant appointed reformer Edwards Pierrepont as U.S. Attorney General.[175] Initially Grant fully endorsed Bristow's investigation having stated, "Let no guilty man escape if it can be avoided," however, after Sec. Bristow discovered that the President's personal secretary Babcock was involved in the ring, Grant became defensive and eventually defended Babcock in an unprecedented 1876 deposition, which biographer McFeely contends was perjurious; the deposition was read in St. Louis during the Whiskey Ring graft trials.[176][177] Biographer Smith, however, maintains that evidence against Babcock was circumstantial.[177] The result of Grant's deposition, as well as testimony from Sherman, brought Babcock an acquittal.[178] No President, before or since Grant, has ever given a deposition for a criminal defendant in a federal trial.[176] This and the other scandals ruined any chances for Grant getting a third term nomination.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orville_Ba ... iskey_Ring
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_W. ... .281876.29

Do I get the kewpie doll?

[The Annoyed Man]

"[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, - who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia." --George Mason, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788

[VMI77]

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government ... s-Law-Firm
REVEALED: CORZINE’S MF GLOBAL WAS CLIENT OF ERIC HOLDER’S LAW FIRM
by WYNTON HALL 26 Jul 2012, 6:24 AM PDT

Those wondering why the Department of Justice has refused to go after Jon Corzine for the vaporization of $1.6 billion in MF Global client funds need look no further than the documents uncovered by the Government Accountability Institute that reveal that the now-defunct MF Global was a client of Attorney General Eric Holder and Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer’s former law firm, Covington & Burling.

There’s more.

Records also reveal that MF Global’s trustee for the Chapter 11 bankruptcy retained as its general bankruptcy counsel Morrison & Foerester--the very law firm from which Associate Attorney General Tony West came to DOJ.

And more.

As Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer explains in the Washington Times Thursday, the trustee overseeing MF Global’s bankruptcy is former FBI Director Louis Freeh. At Holder’s Senate confirmation hearing Freeh served as a character witness for Holder and revealed that Holder had previously worked for Freeh. “As general counsel,” Freeh said, “I could have engaged any lawyer in America to represent our bank. I chose Eric.”

And there's more. Holder is completely exposed and caught in his corruption now. It will take about a week or two before the fMSM begins to heat this story up. But when it does, calls for Holder's resignation will be loud and unavoidable.

I almost wish I had your optimism.

Edited to add:

I think I have to agree with Ann Barnhardt on this one.....

http://barnhardt.biz/

Everything in the media today, and even in the culture - down to private conversations - has been so twisted and corrupted by cultural Marxism (commonly called "political correctness") and systemic, abject COWARDICE that people are absolutely shocked, and then profoundly attracted to the spectacle of someone simply SPEAKING THE TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR.

Further, Holder, Corzine, Obama and all the rest don't give a **** that any of this is coming out. They are sitting back and LAUGHING at all of it. You know why? Because they know damn good and well that no one is going to actually do ANYTHING about any of this, just like no one did anything about it in Russia under Lenin and Stalin or China under Mao. Remember, Eric Holder is, as we speak, in both civil and criminal contempt of Congress. And ... nothing. Absolutely nothing. There is no rule of law and there is no lawful recourse whatsoever because the government has been overthrown and there is NO RULE OF LAW.

That is how tyrannies, like the one we are now under, come to power. They are consciously playing on the normalcy bias and cowardice of the populace. You people STILL think that there is justice and that by merely exposing this crap that someone, somewhere is going to apply justice and all of this is going to be made right through the courts and the government.

It isn't. The government is the enemy. The government is the enemy of both the people, and of justice itself.

[Kythas]

I think I have to agree with Ann Barnhardt on this one.....

http://barnhardt.biz/

Why have I never heard of Ann Barnhardt before? I think I'm in love.

Don't tell my fiancee....

You want to see justice? Kiss your wife and kiddies goodbye, gear up, and tell me where the mustering point is.

I've kind of been wondering about this myself the last year or so.

[C-dub]

I think I have to agree with Ann Barnhardt on this one.....

http://barnhardt.biz/

Why have I never heard of Ann Barnhardt before? I think I'm in love.

Don't tell my fiancee....

You haven't married that girl yet? When is the date?