Stratergy

The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with… oh, the heck with it. We now take you to the Lone Star State. The victim of an armed home invasion in Houston has turned the tables on the brazen intruders after they stuffed him into a closet that [...]

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Lame duck.

Not the first poll this week to show Republicans suddenly ahead of The One on guns, either. The latest NYT/CBS poll had them up 44/41 when respondents were asked who they trusted more to make the right decisions on gun control. Those numbers were significant because they showed a reversal in public opinion. Here’s Pew’s [...]

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If you say so...

Note that he said this today during a meeting with his counterpart in Mexico — the very same country into which his administration has flooded thousands of untraceable guns in an, at best, scandalously ill-conceived gunwalking program that has contributed to the rampant violence. How nice. President Barack Obama vowed Thursday during a trip to [...]

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Backlash?

The contentious political fight over gun control moved into the White Mountains of New Hampshire on Tuesday as gun-control activists began to focus on Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) as a prime target in their effort to revive their push for stricter gun laws… Back home this week for a series of town hall meetings, Ayotte [...]

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In brightest day, in blackest night, no accountability shall disturb my sight.

If Barack Obama expected any sympathy for his lament yesterday that he’s not the Green Lantern, as Greg Sargent put it on Twitter and in his blog yesterday, he’d be looking at people like Dana Milbank and Maureen Dowd for support. Greg certainly tried his best to defend Obama’s assertion that the President can’t make [...]

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Juice?

After the first 100 days of his second term, President Obama just can’t stop talking about the limits of his own power. At a press conference Tuesday morning, he said he wanted a smooth roll out for ObamaCare, but then added, “even if we do everything perfectly, there’ll still be, you know, glitches and bumps.” [...]

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Uhm... no?

Been getting our self-defense and firearm-selection advice from our esteemed vice president, have we? Or, would that be just our talking points? Via the Washington Examiner: If you live in a city and you think you need protection of your home, you’re way better off with a shotgun than an assault weapon,” Clinton added. “Trust [...]

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“I don’t know that there is an issue that has generated more heat internally in the Republican conference.”

Via Dave Weigel, who makes a fair point: How many of the RINOs who were yelling at Cruz at caucus lunches objected to his filibuster on strategic grounds, not because they wanted gun control to pass? That was the WSJ’s big objection, that Republicans had to make sure to force vulnerable red-state Democrats like Pryor [...]

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Survivor

Who really needs a gun anyway, right? You’re more likely to be shot with your own gun or … let’s just stop it, shall we? In Pennsylvania, the owner of a music shop found himself in a tight spot when an intruder came in, attacked him and then went after his wife. That’s a pretty [...]

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"We're going to work this bill with all of our hearts."

The Senate’s proposed gun-control bill crashed and burned earlier this month, and Majority Leader Harry Reid signaled that he was going to put the issue on the political shelf where it would presumably start to gather dust — but that might not be the case after all. Senator Manchin and Toomey revealed last week that [...]

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Okay.

I can’t embed the clip but you can watch it here starting at around 42:00. The Daily Caller has the key quotes. A challenge: Sketch out the process for me by which Democrats, with precious red-state seats in the balance, decide it’d be a good idea to try to choke down another vote on guns [...]

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Some common ground

In a rather unusual – if not unique – experience, I found myself reading a very liberal editorial piece by a decidedly liberal author this week and finding myself nodding my head in agreement at times, while perhaps not for the reason the writer intended. LZ Granderson – who has won an award from the [...]

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Nope.

A fun clip from yesterday’s show via RCP, not just because this little wishcast/harangue is so obviously the product of spite and disgruntlement over losing the big vote but because it’s so obviously wrong. If you saw the new data from Pew this morning, you know why. Ninety percent support for expanded background checks in [...]

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"You can use a 12-gauge shotgun" to defend yourself from terrorists, you know.

Well, get a load of this. On Sunday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein appeared on Fox News to discuss last week’s attack in Boston and terrorism in general, and Chris Wallace wondered whether the people in locked-down Boston last week, with concerns that “this fellow might be on the loose, might break into their house, might take [...]

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What do you expect from 4%?

Barack Obama might be employing “the audacity of mope” after the failure of his gun-control initiative, but he’s mostly alone.  According to a new poll from the Washington Post and Pew, there is no rising tide of outrage over the failure to pass any kind of gun-control legislation this month.  In fact, there are about [...]

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Hmm, not exactly "90 percent," is it?

President Obama’s indignant display of outrageously moral outrage following last week’s failed Senate gun-control vote notwithstanding, Americans’ support for further federal gun-control laws is continuing on its downward trajectory, according to USA Today‘s latest measure — which doesn’t do much to bolster the notion that Americans’ support for the legislation’s passage was really quite as [...]

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Democrats hardest hit.

Take some comfort in the fact that this will almost certainly be the last dumb meme in the gun-rights debate for a long time to come.  After the Tsarnaev brothers allegedly planted bombs at the Boston Marathon, shot a cop to death in an ambush, and then wounded several more in a gun battle, the [...]

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What happens in Jersey doesn't stay in Jersey, Guv.

For a time last year there was some serious chatter about New York Governor Andrew Cuomo being a potential Democrat nominee for 2016. Even if Hillary weren’t likely going to be in the hunt, I’m pretty sure that chatter ended once Cuomo took the shocking, overreaching measures of passing the gun grabbing SAFE Act and [...]

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Defeat.

[Q]uestions of why the Democratic leadership pushed a bill to the floor that ultimately fell five votes short had some whispering about poor planning. “There is going to be a lot of hindsighting,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., who represents Newtown. He didn’t count himself among the critics, though. “We had to have a vote [...]

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Next moves.

After Wednesday’s failed gun-control vote in the Senate, President Obama (rather petulantly) insisted that “this effort is not over” — but from here on out, he might have to go Lone Ranger on that one, at least for now. Continuing to push on further gun-control measures might be doing Democrats more 2014-related harm than good; [...]

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Grease.

Give this guy credit, at least, for not mincing words. In a more prosperous age, billions of dollars in pork would have been flung at the Senate’s gun-control fencesitters to buy their votes yesterday. It took an endlessly sputtering economy, $16 trillion in debt, and an entitlement crisis so frightening that even Obama’s now proposing [...]

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Yep, that's the GOP figured out, all right.

Uhm… nailed it? I guess I appreciate the honesty of the Republican caucus. They’ve just made it clear that they are just kind of gun-control Darwinists at this point. They just think that we should give a whole bunch of guns to the good guys and to the bad guys and let them shoot it [...]

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"This was a pretty shameful day in Washington."

I promised you a tantrum. Via Mediaite, here it is. It’s interesting to see what gets The One’s dander up, and what doesn’t: Obama showed the passion and anger at his personal defeat that he wasn’t able to manage after the Benghazi slaughter. — DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) April 17, 2013 Never mind Benghazi. Where was this [...]

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Showtime.

Barring last-minute schedule changes, the Senate votes on nine, count ‘em nine, amendments to Reid’s gun-control bill starting at 4 p.m. ET. Manchin/Toomey goes first, then comes the GOP’s alternate bill. Cornyn’s bill on concealed-carry reciprocity will follow a bit later, then Feinstein’s assault-weapons ban and a vote on banning high-capacity magazines, among others. If [...]

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