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Using Dead Bodies For Political Points

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  March 20th, 2013 at 01:59 PM  | 

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Obama starts the year by demagoguing Newtown and gun crime to an insane length. You have ‘they deserve a vote.’ You have all the talk about the need to get serious about guns. All of that.

Then next, you have all the quiet talk about how the President doesn’t really need an assault weapons ban in the gun bill. You have mouthpiece of the Democratic National Committee Greg Sargent saying 20 times a day that the assault weapons ban is not the President’s priority; it’s the background check. That’s his priority. That’s what he cares about.

Then yesterday, Harry Reid basically comes out and says the Assault Weapons Ban is dead, and that – by the way – Dianne Feinstein might be embarrassed if she offers it as an amendment, because it will get fewer than 40 votes.

And next, the White House suddenly makes itself heard again on the assault weapons ban. McDonough comes out and says that by God, the President has always been 100% committed to it, and he won’t let it die.

Translation: now that the ban is dead, and there is minimum danger to the red state Democrats, the President is going to demagogue it more. And you can bet he will be demagoguing it for months – now that it’s safe to do so.

So Newtown victims, Aurora victims, Oak Creek victims – you have been used. By the President. And damn if your blood isn’t going to be very useful in the months ahead.

The only caution I have is that by making it an amendment, the GOP may walk into a trap if the President uses the memories of the dead enough to get to 51 in the Senate. But it’d never pass the House and he’d keep right on using the victims for political points.

It may disgust you, but it is not unexpected. This is the man who sat silently by for a week while the left blamed the right for the attempted assassination of Gabby Giffords.

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  • Kyle-MI

    CO should be an interesting test case. Their governor just signed a bill that looks pretty much like what the liberals want passed on the federal level. I hope I am surprised, but I am not at all confident that any of the CO pols who voted for that bill will be electorally punished.

  • joshinca

    Dude, get help.

    Your Swartz obsession is disturbing.

  • joshinca

    Translation: now that the ban is dead, and there is minimum danger to the red state Democrats, the President is going to demagogue it more. And you can bet he will be demagoguing it for months – now that it’s safe to do so.

    That would be fantastic for conservatives.

    The reality is that the proglodytes have lost the culture war against guns. It’s their Achilles heal. And if Obama demagogues the issue it will become relevant in every election across the country, to the progs defeat.

  • Rick_Caird

    Why? The Aaron Schwartz story is a story of overreach by a prosecutor. It talks to the over criminalization of the country and the raw power of government. As another example, we would not have ObamaCare, but for the malicious and unethical prosecution of Ted Stevens.

    You need to pay attention to the government blackmail that comes out of the plea bargain system and the insulation of prosecutors from punishment via sovereign immunity.

  • Rick_Caird

    It will also be instructive to see if there is any electoral backlash in 2014. I suspect the Colorado bill could not have been passed in 2014 because o election fears.

  • joshinca

    Your take on the story is the same as mine, one not shared by Mr Stevens. Even so, I don’t bring it up every day.

  • surfcat50

    Every single time the President demagogues gun rights and mentions children, Republicans ought to invite him to join them in ensuring that another Kermit Gosnell clinic can never be opened again and any existing one is closed for good.

    You know, for the “safety of innocent children.”

  • steve51

    The sad thing is, Di-Fi & her idiot squad don’t know rhe difference between an
    assault weapon & an assault rifle. Then you have the gaff-o-matic recommending the
    use of a 12 guage, a much better home defense weapon ( which i agree with in very close contact), as opposed to an AR-15. You can’t buy fully automatic (assault rifles), at
    least not that i’m aware of. Thank God she didn’t put the 30-30 on her shit list. Here’s
    an idea,quit tinkering with our constitutional rights.

  • steve51

    The irony of the whole thing is that the liberal leaders we have now are precisely why we have the 2nd ammendment.That was a work of pure legislative genius on the Founding Fathers part. There must’ve been liberals working just as hard back
    then trying to destroy America before She even got started.

  • steve51

    No shame to their game. They are truely a sickening lot.

  • capeconservative

    As well as suggesting that he check out the many black children murdered in Chicago on a daily basis. Why some of them might even look like his son if he had one!

  • capeconservative

    The senate leader should be roundly condemned by the minority leader AT THE SENATE PODIUM for using the accidental deaths of these young Marines to promote his anti-American agenda. With every word he utters, he is just digging his own political grave…IF the Republicans in Nevada can’t find a good candidate to take this man on in the next election, shame on them. Reid is giving them enough soundbites to sink the Titanic!

    Where is the Ethics Committee? A man who entered Congress with not much in the bank has somehow become one of the wealthiest and most powerful politicians in the state???

  • http://www.facebook.com/michael.shreve.94 Michael Shreve

    A president who would INTENTIONALLY permited a U.S. Ambassador and others be MURDERED on U.S. Property is NOT is a position to demagogue the memories of the dead in the U.S. He has ALREADY proven he has no interest in human life EXCEPT when it suits his political agenda.

  • soljerblue

    It’s never been about guns. It’s about CONTROL. Always has been with these bottom feeders; always will be.

  • MF

    Total waste of time. Those who are pro abortion refuse to accept the view of unborn children as being anything more than “tissue”.

  • sudomakeme

    People have very short memories these days. Scary.

  • funwithknives

    ….and your points here should be hammered home on a weekly basis, by any CongressCritter worthy of their pay. [ as well as Their Oath.]

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    You people are disgusting.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    They are, they’re disgusting.