Compelled by a mixture of relief and schadenfreude, I held my nose and watched the president rail against the defeat of the Manchin-Toomey amendment in a live Rose Garden press conference earlier today. He recited all the same old canards: “If action by congress could have saved one person, while protecting our Second Amendment rights, we had an obligation to try.” Note the assumption that Manchin-Toomey would have protected anything . . .
Obama also blasted the ‘abuse of Senate rules’ that prevented the Manchin-Toomey amendment from moving forward. This is hip-deep hypocrisy: Obama was a senator himself, and he knew well that both parties rely on the 60-vote amendment rule.
I didn’t hear him lamenting the defeat of several GOP-sponsored amendments (including national CCW reciprocity, gun rights for veterans, and harsher penalties for straw purchases) that also gathered more than 50 votes, but were defeated in today’s voting. Apparently it’s only an ‘abuse of Senate rules’ when your own pet amendments are blocked. The GOP amendments actually fared better on the whole than the anti-gun Democrat amendments did, but nobody held a Rose Garden ceremony for them.
It was absolutely PRICELESS watching a furious Feinstein flail in impotent rage after her beloved AWB went down in flames. It was definitely The Biggest Loser, garnering only 40 votes in favor, 60 against.
After the sound and fury of the Rose Garden sob-fest, I preferred the comments of Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Tex.):
This afternoon’s 54-46 defeat of Manchin-Toomey anti-gun power grab is a victory for peace and civil liberties. After spending over $1 billion to claw out a 51% re-election, it’s clear at this point Obama couldn’t pass a stone. Constitutional rights don’t require permission slips. The language of the Second Amendment is perhaps the starkest and most absolute in the Constitution. ‘The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.’ That means any obstacle whatsoever is strictly prohibited. We are currently ordering our promised U-Haul gift cards for Senators Hagan and Landrieu, who may become the next Jack Brooks. We expect them to be delivered shortly. We are awaiting the results of voting on other amendments to see what legislative response, if any, this office will issue.
Keep up the pressure on your congresscritters: this ain’t over yet.
Just got back from the range…took two Wilson’s and my “nightmare”. What an apropos name! First round from the Sig went downrange just fine…a bit high and to the right…second…”squib”…barely scratched the primer…third round fired…fourth…”squib”…fifth fired and the firing pin retainer popped out (D shaped with a hole in it). I looked at the back of the retainer and it looked as though the firing pin would occasionally find it’s way through the hole…but more often would strike the back of the retainer. Made in the USA…wish it had “DE” on it!
“The individual members of this union did not write the terms of the bill nor vote on its passage.”
Nobody said you did. Those who did will be dealt with via the ballot box, or the jury box. Do not be so foolish as to obey this tyranny under color of law, and endanger yourself to be dealt with by the cartridge box, for the sake of enforcing a violation of the Constitution.
“The individual members of this union . . . ” should tell their union what their opinion of this law is, and have their union relay their objections to the Governor and Legislators.
Best blog-entry title in the history of blogs.
Yep. He does lachrymate quite. a. bit.
Yeah, well gun owners are not finished. We have to keep our promises to vote the anti-gun bums out so any future efforts are quelled before they even start. The pro-gun polls did their job, but we need to finish it at the ballot boxes.
+1. I hope we can kick out the Progressives in Colorado and other states.
Awesome. Great job, RF… linked.
Oh darn, too bad for the Progressives. I’m sick and tired of trying to be polite regarding gun rights discussions, especially after the hate and venom spewed upon gun owners from the media with tacit approval from the White House.
I’m loving this. Just watching Jug Ears stamping his feet and wailing like the NRA’s b1tch is soooooo sweet. He probably hasn’t heard the word “no” since the last time his mommy caught him playing pocket pool.
Sometimes, life is good.
But….but….the media says he can never be wrong?!? How can this be? (Please note sarcasm).
I’ll bet ole’ Curious George ain’t gonna’ be so curious anymore!
Hey now. Curious George is a fond childhood memory…
So now that Obama didn’t get his way, how many people will he kill to get his point across? and where will he have the Innocent assassinated next? Beware people, to Obama this is not a cold war… He is demented!!!
“Lacrymosa”, “Agonistes”, et al, this was a day we can celebrate – while never taking our eyes off the door.
Is it possible the anti-gunners’ mojo has gone cold?
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”
Almost certainly not Jefferson, but more importantly, it was a very common expression around that time.
http://www.monticello.org/site/blog-and-community/posts/eternal-vigilance
Freedom 1, Tyranny 0. GG.
Have to agree with BedBug. Something is going to happen very soon every gun owner will be blamed for and which makes Sandy Hook look like a Sunday school picnic.
I sure hope you are wrong about all that. Can’t deny he sure has got a lot of mileage out of the last one what with flying people around the country like show dogs and all that.
And is is just me, or is Gabby kind of cute now that she’s always half a bubble off? I guess she just reminds me of a ditzy teenage girl I knew (too well) when I wore a younger man’s clothes.
The day He got elected goes down as Washington DC’s most shameful day.
know we got to watch that immigration bill that sob is nasty it well legalize not only the ones here but relatives and deported as well
Anyone else notice that the guy behind him was HUGE?
The terrorist Syrian FSA rebels grab every propane tank they can find: open up a 3″ or so hole and fill with ANFO ammonium nitrate, re-weld: “It can destroy a tank” (i.e. SAA T-72 supplied by russia) is what the FSA ‘group leader’ said.
The fireball looked like every other iraq IED I’ve seen on youtube, etc. and they are NOT using black/gun powder.
Two experts were on Hannity yesterday: one said he thinks peroxide based (Very popular in Palestine, btw) and the other one (former FBI) said “could be picric acid based.”
A Fox affiliate yesterday at 2pm PST said the smell of gunpowder was reported by a witness and led report with ‘gunpowder used’…not enough for me. [however–amazing how close the bombs were to target, so I rescind my earlier that it couldn’t be black/gun powder].
We fought a revolution to prove that the power rests with the people, and they can allow government to use it for the common good. Career politicians seem to get it backwards, thinking they have the power over the people. When they do, this is what happens. Hope DiFi learned the lesson.
“Gun rights advocates’ future depends mainly on the popularity of firearms-oriented movies, YouTube videos and video games — which create a large and growing “feeder” system for gun ownership.”
I’m not so sure. For example, isn’t a gun owning parent passing the hobby on to their children important?
Also, I wonder, to what degree a dozen years of warfare is a factor? We have a good generation of kids from places such as Brooklyn and Chicago exposed to guns who would not otherwise have been. Some are repulsed. Some return home and wonder why they can be trusted with a gun in the sand box, but not at home?
Personally I can’t listen to O’Bama’s speeches. The instant I hear his voice I suffer a massive attack of diarrhea. Can’t wait ’till 2017.
I hope she is so distraught she has a massive heart attack, on TV so I can watch it back in slow motion over and over
the butthurt is palpable. I have never seen a president throw such a pissy fit. But then again the commies saw Newtown as their “Dunblane” moment of victory only to be pushed back repeatedly. First was the Feinstein assault weapons ban including a registry of all mags and “evil” rifles. Shitcanned. Then the original Schumer draft. Kibboshed. And now the “compromise” bill voted down. They were forced to back down at every turn and now have jacksquat to show for the months of media propaganda blitzes
I guess my only regret is that we did not have M-T enshrine into law a ban on gun registration but from the sounds there were more holes in it than a block of swiss cheese. Two of which I believe were lack of enforcement mechanisms (Eric Holder) and loopholes where *other* agencies not under DOJ could create a registry
at any rate, you can tell it was a good day for freedom if Obama acts all butthurt and pissy
Who cares what those dumbasses think in the white house or Congress. It’s suppose to be for the people by the people. Not their agendas and personal convictions. The prez can get all pissed and flustered over the Senate’s vote, but it’s not up to BlObama. That’s why we have a separation of powers so no one arm gets too powerful.
I could give two shits about what he thinks!
Indeed, it is never over; now work, volunteer, write and contribute to remove those Senators who opposed our rights on this issue.
You know. it’s just a “crying” shame that his plan for confiscation and disarmament is done -for the moment-. Remember this, Harry Reid voted no in order to preserve his prerogative of bringing it up again. If he does, he doesn’t have to use Toomey-Manchin, he can substitute the original Schumer bill in all it’s horrific detail. No, it is not over.
The Schumer bill is still the bill of record. M/T was an amendment to replace it.
yaaaaaaahooooo! what a petulant bastard he really is
How lame. So Mr. President, do the Benghazi survivors get to weigh in on their loss? How’s that investigation going? Where are the tearful human interest stories in People Magazine and other media outlets about how the President slept while Consulate staff fought for their lives without assistance from their Commander in Chief?
I’m glad and relieved it failed. Hopefully this stand-in for Predator is going to be disappointed that the shoulder thing that goes up has no bearing on how deadly a gun is. Guns are Guns and Guns are Fun!
Even though this probably isn’t really over, it does feel great at the moment and is worth celebrating that we gun owners did not lose outright to the Tyrant and his sycophants. Now, if we can just get Congress to address the Mental Health issues behind so many of these mass shootings, maybe we can stop the next crazy from killing people. But I won’t hold my breath on that one.
I’m sick of having the NRA villified for possessing some of the only valid “common sense” in this Country. I guess they just make an easy target, but it’s a piss-off, nonetheless.
Hate to be the hater but it seems like yall need reality check ala Matthew Mcconaughey from Reign of Fire:
Envy the country that has heroes, huh?! I say pity the country that needs ’em. What are you celebrating? One dragon down, three men dead? Oh, yeah. At that rate, we might just be getting somewhere in about 320 years. Is that what you want? You want a little accommodation? Unh-unh. These beasts live on ash. They feed on death. There’s no middle ground…not for them, not for us. And sure as hell not for my men who died out there today. But you go ahead. Have your little… soiree. Personally, you disgust me.
So the Feinstein has been slain . . . How many more progressives do we have to go? Our right to bear arms are infringed all over the place – but you go ahead. Have your little soiree.
George Friedman of STRATFOR [highly recommended] says, among other things, that the Legislature was set up by the Founding Fathers to make sweeping change like these bills that went down in flames difficult, not easy, so this defeat of wholesale, un-thought-out change is how it’s supposed to work…
We must continue to press the senators with everything we have until we die. The fight will never be over, not as long as you have an Ideologue dictator as President and stupid Bleeding heart liberals to kiss his ass.
WE WILL NEVER GIVE UP THE FIGHT, keep saying it, WE WILL NEVER GIVE UP THE FIGHT!
KEEP CALLING, KEEP WRITING, KEEP UP THE PRESSURE…
He says the legislation represents progress… progressively curtailing our civil rights. If you give a mouse a cookie…
Well, he’s more like a rat.
All Biden is thinking is “..………..But what about my shotgun?”
Isn’t there some way that we can compel our legislative representatives to ask for a vote to remove this man from office. Maybe a petition or some formal action to make this issue come to a vote either by them or us. If WE are not happy with the way they are doing the job for us? As was said earlier the 2nd amendment is the very back bone of the whole constitution for Us to be the ones in charge. By Us From Us, and For Us. Don’t WE deserve a vote Too?
For the record. Impeachment can only be undertaken in the evidence of High Crimes and Misdemeanors. A Bill of Impeachment has to start in the House. Once passed he is impeached. HOWEVER, the senate must then try the facts of the case and render a verdict that removes him from office. Bill the Zipper’s impeachment was not even considered by the Senate. The laid the bill on the table and ignored it. The same thing would happen to “Obozo the Weepy”.
Loved the Eliot references, Chris. Of course that leaves Harry Reid as J Alfred Prufrock. Truly we live in times that can only be described as The Wasteland. Yet there are glimmers of light, as Rep Stockman points out.
You would think an intelligent politician would ponder about 700 jobs going out of
state and not sign this. Oops, its over, guess not. Its the economy stupid. Rich people understand hard work, but they don’t really know what its like to struggle your whole
life. Jobs are leaving my county and state because of taxes and over regulation. At a Tea Party rally here they’re was only 300 people, there should have been 5000! I have often felt under the surface of things there is something really wrong with America, now I’m actually seeing it, Camera red lights?! Wow.
Feinstein needs to permanently disappear from any seat of political power.
I want to see a Bad Lip Reading of this.
YES!
This is really his first defeat after over a full term, unfortunately. People now know he does not always get his way, that he can be beaten, and hopefully it will embolden politicians to push back more and more and more.
His agenda is not what is best for our nation or our liberty. He continues to show great disrespect to other countries and leaders who have stood by us through decades or more and that could come back to haunt us someday.
Our economy continues to limp along, he’s pushing giving home loans to people who should not be in debt, he pumps money into things that are none of the Federal Govt’s affairs, with the net effect of billions wasted but cronies getting rich.
Perhaps worst of all, our country is move divided than ever. Rich vs Poor, White vs non-white, immigrant against citizen, those who have against those who want but won’t work to get it.
Just a reminder, Robin Hood and Zorro did not take from the rich and give to the poor, they fought tyranny and cronyism and took the money back from the tax collectors and gave it back to the people who had been ruined by excessive taxation.
This is a victory in the battle, but the war is not won. Now that so many of us have found our voice and found out there are many other like-minded people out there we need to keep supporting those who have shown their courage and mettle and work to defeat at the ballot box those who have shown they cannot be trusted. Keep writing/calling/faxing/emailing your elected officials, keep asking for restoration of rights, go to the town hall meetings and try to bring up the uncomfortable questions to those who do not get it.
March on Patriots!
Hey, Hussein…. CHOKE ON IT!!!
As the Obama administration looks around for people to blame, maybe they should start with Gov. Cuomo. The SAFE Act revealed the true intentions of many on the left and killed the notion that gun owners could compromise with them. They overreached at the state level and now seem confused as to why we will not give an inch at the federal level.
Zuck on that one Rachel Madcow.
Donation to the GOA, $100.00, watching Biden cry like a bitch, PRICELESS.
He seems really determined to put his other foot in his mouth.