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Obama dealt a huge loss on gun control

The Senate defeated multiple gun control bills today, which got President Obama pretty upset.

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No commentary I could come up with sums up the situation better than what Allahpundit had to say about Obama’s tantrum, so I present the following without additional commentary.

It’s interesting to see what gets The One’s dander up, and what doesn’t.

Never mind Benghazi. Where was this supposedly righteous anger after Aurora? The victims in that case weren’t small children, but that can’t possibly explain O’s dramatically more subdued reaction after that shooting. They were innocent people too; many of them were young, if not kindergarteners. No angry Rose Garden press conferences freaking out about Senate inaction after Aurora, though. Any theories why? Anything, maybe, having to do with when that shooting happened vis-a-vis Newtown?

Right: One of them came three months before a presidential election and the other came a month after. That’s the difference.

As you watch him point the finger here at supposedly gutless senators who care more about retaining public office than Doing Something, remember that there’s hardly one among them who’s as attuned to political self-preservation as O. He kept his mouth shut nice and tight about guns when it was his own ass on the line last year in purple states; he ignored gun control almost completely when he had 60 Democratic votes in the Senate early in his first term; and as we know from the gay-marriage farce, he isn’t above lying outright to voters about his true positions in the name of getting elected.




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