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The No Labels approach to gun control: Vague, but comprehensive

National calamity is to the do-something pragmatist what fire is to the Lodgepole Pine: the essential delivery system for reproduction. When you start seeing quotes like “I don’t know what we’re going to do, but we’re going to do something,” you know it’s getting hot outside.

But this combination of panicked urgency, will to government power, and maddening vagueness can be pretty comical in practice. So it was when the No Labels Huntsman-Manchin roadshow got pinned down on guns by Candy Crowley this weekend…

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I’ve got a label for these fools, but since the Great Eye sees all I will refrain and live to comment another day.

Bishop on January 17, 2013 at 7:32 PM

Nothing new. Centrism is intellectually bankrupt.

Mark1971 on January 17, 2013 at 7:40 PM

HUNTSMAN: Well, listen, we’ve heard from the special interest groups. We’re hearing from, you know, one end of the spectrum or that end of the spectrum. But in the end, our duly elected officials get together with an open mind and, then, make decisions on behalf of the people they represent. And that is where getting back to No Labels is so important.

You know, we’ve got the politics of right and left and center, but we have forgotten the most important part of all, and that’s the politics of problem solving, representing the people in all that we do.

What we are doing today isn’t normal. And for the younger generation growing up seeing the way that politics is playing out, this is not the norm and that is why Joe and I coming from the backgrounds we do, you get the right and the left together in a room, whether it is on guns or anything else, and you say what is the pathway forward, how do we solve this for the American people?

Bafflegab.

sharrukin on January 17, 2013 at 7:41 PM

Hard policy is for those unbending labelish people.

Buddahpundit on January 17, 2013 at 8:19 PM

Look at these two grinning douchenozzles and tell me that anything good can come of this.

fourbten on January 17, 2013 at 8:27 PM