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White House Floats Gun Control Proposals

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)1/07/2013 10:28:48 am PST

re: #579 Decatur Deb

2014 elections. There is a tiny chance of a Dem House, and a good chance that Supreme Court vacancies won’t be filled until we see a different Senate. If Biden and the Pres make this work, well and good. If they try and fail we just pissed away the best chance of a sane government for another half-generation.

I don’t think that this will piss away anything. The change has to come from redistricting, which means winning state-level stuff. Hell, in true realpolitik, this could even work to local Democrats advantage by pushing back on the gun control stuff against the administration, if we want to be totally cynical.

The thing is that the GOP and the NRA have been constantly slugging at Obama for mythical gun-grabs this entire time. Now that some relatively sober regulation is proposed, they’re upping the ante, but it’s the same bullshit they’ve said the whole time.

I don’t think the Democrats win by being cautious on issues, in general, though. I think pusillanimity has been their vice.