SHHH!! Be very quiet about it...
Posted on 05/25/2011 11:38:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I missed this last week, and so may many who didn’t notice Instapundit’s link to the Greeley Gazette’s post on the White House’s efforts to impose gun control through executive-branch regulatory adventurism. Jack Minor caught this anecdote buried below the jump on a Washington Post Lifestyle profile of Steve Croley, first published six weeks ago. Described as “the White House’s point man on gun regulation policy,” the Post includes this rather telling quote from President Obama on the issue of gun control from March:
On March 30, the 30th anniversary of the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, Jim Brady, who sustained a debilitating head wound in the attack, and his wife, Sarah, came to Capitol Hill to push for a ban on the controversial “large magazines.” Brady, for whom the law requiring background checks on handgun purchasers is named, then met with White House press secretary Jay Carney. During the meeting, President Obama dropped in and, according to Sarah Brady, brought up the issue of gun control, “to fill us in that it was very much on his agenda,” she said.
“I just want you to know that we are working on it,” Brady recalled the president telling them. “We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar.”
Minor noted that this under-the-radar anecdote matches up with other reporting:
The statement reinforces an article in the Huffington Post describing how the administration is exploring ways to bypass Congress and enact gun control through executive action.
The Department of Justice reportedly is holding meetings discussing the White House’s options for enacting regulations on its own or through adjoining agencies and departments. “Administration officials said talk of executive orders or agency action are among a host of options that President Barack Obama and his advisers are considering. “
That also matches up with Obama’s approach on … nearly everything, it seems. Regulatory adventurism has been a hallmark of every other Obama priority, whether it be health care, financial-services reform, labor policy, and now on gun control. When his agenda is too radical for Congress, Obama simply plans to bypass Congress and rule by decree.
Glenn Reynolds headlined this under the banner “TRANSPARENCY.” That’s fitting, but “RADICAL” and “DISHONEST” work well, too. Here’s the problem for Democrats: Ever since the Clinton years, they have avoided gun control like the plague, and the courts have taken a libertarian view of the Second Amendment. How many of the incumbent Democrats in the Senate want to defend Obama on his power play to impose gun control by executive fiat in the dark? How will that fly in places like Missouri, Nebraska, and West Virginia? How about in open seats like Virginia’s, which Democrats hope to hold?
Update: I meant “executive fiat,” not “legislative fiat.” The latter is an oxymoron, obviously.
Obama is an idiot.
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Let Freedom Ring,
2012 is going to be a very interesting election year for everyone. Gun control, economy, war in ME, Israel, and of course Bammy himself.
I will be the Dems will dump him by the end of this year.
Bring it on, raggedy man ! It certainly would settle things, once and for all. Not settle in the way he calculates, but i’m willing to make my point known.
EVIL...trying to undo a Constitutional issue thru Exec Action???
Oh, I don't know, Jim. He is obviously over his head often enough, but I consider him a willing tool of moneyed, powerful & influential interests who prefer to remain out of the limelight, who likely wish they had chosen a more capable puppet. Regardless, he and his pack of Chicago mobsters need to get the boot next year.
As far as gun control goes, 90% of everything these freedom-haters accomplish is done behind closed doors in the dead of night. Without deception, they've rarely ever accomplished anything.
Just my view from the saddle.
When the NRA starts putting this out, it will be an issue, and it will have an effect in 2012.
There is no telling what he has done for his Muslim buddies, under the radar. I'll bet it is a lot more than anyone knows.
bkmk
Ha! What does that moron think we’ve been stockpiling “under the radar” for 30 years!
Let’s Roll!
I agree with you. I think Hillary and key Dem insiders got a taste of just how dangerously indecisive this guy is in the whole lead-up to the Libya and Bin Laden decisions. I am sure that deep within the bowels of the Democrat Party a plan is hatching to eject Barry before he leads their entire party over the cliff and into a half-century of oblivion.
I have excellent gun control. 8 X .45ACP, 6” spread, 10 yards, 10 seconds.
I don't think so. They seem to still be marching in lock-step with the dictator.
WE STILL HAVE MORE TRASH TO TAKE OUT IN 2012! MARK YOUR CALENDAR NOW!!
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I keep seeing this story and who’s to say it isn’t for real but, WTH?
The story never gets into what type of control so I am left wondering if this is a rumor or a figment of someone’s imagination.
That’s my kind of gun control and the only kind that is constitutional. Not sure I would call it “excellent” though. ;)
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