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Obama: 'Unimaginable' Congress would 'defy' Americans on guns
Politico 44 ^ | 4/16/13 | Jenifer Epstein

Posted on 04/16/2013 8:13:02 AM PDT by To-Whose-Benefit?

President Obama can't see how Congress could buck public opinion to vote against new gun laws, he said in an interview released Tuesday.

“The notion that Congress would defy the overwhelming instinct of the American people after what we saw happen in Newtown I think is unimaginable,” he told "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie in an interview conducted before Monday's explosions at the Boston Marathon.

The Senate is expected to vote on gun legislation later this week, though it's not yet clear whether there will be enough votes for it to pass. Obama has been calling lawmakers to try to convince them to vote in favor of tougher gun laws, The Associated Press reported late Monday.

In the budget released last week, Obama said he offered Republicans a “realistic compromise."

“It does not give Republicans everything they want. Frankly, it doesn't reflect everything that I would like to see,” he said. “What it does is it puts forward some of the ideas that Republicans had suggested around entitlement reform that I think are reasonable policy.”


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To: mardi59
He’s just angry we haven’t bowed to his will.

This is the case with most leftists. They just find it "unimaginable" that people won't recognize their superiority and just obey and comply.

41 posted on 04/16/2013 8:29:34 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: mrsmel; chris37

I stand corrected.


42 posted on 04/16/2013 8:29:53 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: To-Whose-Benefit?

Obama lies about the support for gun control. He lies about a lot of other stuff also.

Click on the link below to see surveys on the desire for gun control. Pew, ABC Washington Post, and Gallop. None of these are conservative and quite frankly lean left.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/15/newtown-shooting-tighter-gun-control-laws


43 posted on 04/16/2013 8:31:21 AM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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44 posted on 04/16/2013 8:32:39 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: MrB

Guess who’s on tV, the king himself. We, we, we, I, we.


45 posted on 04/16/2013 8:33:06 AM PDT by mardi59 (IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!!!!!)
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To: To-Whose-Benefit?

Exactly why we are NOT a Democracy, but a Constitutional Republic.

But I’m sure how the Amendment progress works just slipped the mind of the ‘Constitutional scholar’

Way to go O; showing again why you’re the socialist turd.


46 posted on 04/16/2013 8:34:01 AM PDT by i_robot73 (We hold that all individuals have the Right to exercise sole dominion over their own lives - LP.org)
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To: chris37

Once again, the Current Occupant of the White Hut is reading America wrong.

Whether The Won knows it or not, there is a vast area called “flyover country”, AKA as the “red states”, where the whole Bill of Rights is taken quite seriously, particularly the 1st, the 2nd, the 4th, and the 10th.

The territory once known as “the United States of America” is NOT 100% in favor of whatever it is that has been rammed down our throats over the past 4+ years.

And now, in an international snub of unparalleled gall, nobody representing the Current Regime is being sent to attend the funeral of Lady Thatcher of England. That is not merely rude, it is of unthinkably callous and boorish behavior. And this announcement was made BEFORE the Boston terrorist bombing.


47 posted on 04/16/2013 8:34:27 AM PDT by alloysteel (Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.)
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To: To-Whose-Benefit?

“President Obama can’t see how Congress could buck public opinion to vote against new gun laws,”


He can’t see or understand because he is genetically inferior to the dump I took this morning.

pResident O’Commie, maybe you were doing too many drugs while you slid through college and got that fake law license you had to surrender (why, we still don’t know) but OPINIONs majority or minority are not Constitutional Laws.

Why is it so hard for these mental defective affirmative actions POS to understand what a Constitution is, why it was created, and why it should only be modified by an Amendment process NOT Opinion.

I could only wish this POS would read this but we all know the ruling elite just ignore us.


48 posted on 04/16/2013 8:37:19 AM PDT by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam!)
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To: To-Whose-Benefit?

FUBO


49 posted on 04/16/2013 8:39:09 AM PDT by Mouton (108th MI Group.....68-71)
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To: Sacajaweau
He just doesn't get it...."Criminals do not obey laws."

I would beg to differ; EVERYONE on the left get it! Every dictator gets it. So what if only criminals have guns. Criminals are not a threat to totalitarian rule and actually drive the public to demand totalitarian rule, that is once the public is disarmed and helpless.

50 posted on 04/16/2013 8:41:07 AM PDT by trubolotta
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To: To-Whose-Benefit?

“President Obama can’t see how Congress could buck public opinion to vote against new gun laws, he said in an interview released Tuesday. “

Maybe because the “public opinion” is an entire media fabrication.


51 posted on 04/16/2013 8:43:27 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: trubolotta

Exactly!

Hitler- Brown Shirts.

The Nazis used them, and then took Them out after they’d served their purpose.


52 posted on 04/16/2013 8:43:29 AM PDT by To-Whose-Benefit? (It is Error alone which needs the support of Government. The Truth can stand by itself.)
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To: To-Whose-Benefit?
Obama: 'Unimaginable' Congress would 'defy' Americans on guns

They aren't for once... you clueless, ignorant moron!

53 posted on 04/16/2013 8:43:44 AM PDT by Common Sense 101 (Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
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To: To-Whose-Benefit?

http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/2013/04/15/rasmussen-gun-debate-highlights-voter-distrust-of-government/?subscriber=1


54 posted on 04/16/2013 8:45:09 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Jane Long

The existing gun laws aren’t even being enforced. Chicago, with it’s high homicide by gun numbers, has a backlog of cases it’s not even bothering to investigate. Because most of them would affect the “catered-to constituency”. These goons know full well that more gun control legislation will only affect law-abiding citizens. Or in some cases, previously law-abiding citizens.

So when that gang of the catered-to kicks in the door of your home while you, your wife, and your children are sitting there watching teevee or having dinner-when, after hours of rape, assault, possibly torture (setting on fire, forcing you to swallow bleach, etc-all of which and more have actually happened in recent crimes), and bagging up your valuables, they decide to kill everyone, the only “one life will be saved” will be that of the criminals, because the unarmed innocent citizens never stood a chance.


55 posted on 04/16/2013 8:46:58 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: SoldierDad

> hat event in American History which freed “your people”!

Heh, it was HIS people, the African Moslems, that ran the slave trade.


56 posted on 04/16/2013 8:47:22 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: laweeks

[[If I’m not mistaken, we overwhelmingly did NOT WANT OBAMBICARE . . . what was it? . . . 76% against it?]]

Fox news is ‘reporting’ as high as 90% of peopel want gun control/backgroudn checks- Fox news doesn’t even bother to correct thsoe false numbers being claiemd by their guests- so we don’t even have theo ne ‘conservaGTIVE ‘news station in oru corner any logner-


57 posted on 04/16/2013 8:49:10 AM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: Paladin2

So, constitutionality didn’t enter into it. If we decide things by “majority rules” (even though that wasn’t even the case in Obamacare), what do we need him for?


58 posted on 04/16/2013 8:49:20 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: laweeks

wooops- sorry- I thoguht you said ‘gun control’ I see now you were talkign about peopel not wantign the dearl eader’s health care- sorry for ocnfusion


59 posted on 04/16/2013 8:50:08 AM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: chris37

If you are a straight Conservative white male or female; no, you do NOT count. To the guillotines with you...


60 posted on 04/16/2013 8:52:32 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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