Remember when President Obama told Jay Leno that one thing he wanted to do as the nation’s chief executive was “to break is a pattern in Washington where everybody is always looking for somebody else to blame.”
Doesn’t seem the Democrat has put his money where his mouth was. According to Mark Felsenthal and Steve Holland of Reuters, Obama blames “shameful” politics for defeat of gun measure:
President Barack Obama, his gun control legislation falling to defeat, lashed out at the U.S. Congress in unusually tough terms on Wednesday as he came to grips with the loss of a key priority after spending months fighting for it.
“There were no coherent arguments as to why we wouldn’t do this. It came down to politics,” Obama said after the Senate failed to muster enough votes to expand background checks for firearms purchases.
Obama accused those opposed to the legislation he supports of being liars, saying, “The gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill“.
Do wonder how many Senators Mr. Obama called or otherwise buttonholed to ask for their support on this issue he made a “key priority” only after willing reelection last fall.
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*Or did he just give speeches?
I take that as an admission by the President that he is not that good at politics.
He got his “vote in the Senate”. What a whiner….
I think he is pleased as hell the republicans filibustered this. Expect to see this used a lot in the elections about why folks should throw out the republicans. He will use his micro targeting to turn out woman, Asian Americans and Hispanic Americans – who overwhelmingly support gun control –
Thankfully I think the economy will keep on sputtering and that should keep the republicans in the house firmly in power and might = gains in the senate if we weed out the Aikenesque nutjobs.
If he reached out to Senators, I am quite positive it did so in a lecturing mode. That is what he did during the health care debate. He lectures, blames and accuses everyone else of bad faith. The emperor has no clothes.
He specializes in giving speeches, exploiting human props (whether children or the parents of dead children), and whining petulantly in front of the camera.
Team Obama chose to snub Margaret Thatcher’s funeral (mainly because he despises the British) so they could stay home and lobby for gun control.
So, typical Obama clusterfetch, he manages to offend an ally AND fail to pass his gun control bill.
The only saving grace to the Obama regime is that the guy really isn’t good at his job.
I suspect that the non-attendance of the Bushes and the Clintons reflects machination of the Obama White House—though GHW and Barbara Bush don’t travel much anymore and neither the Bush-43 or Clinton Admins. dealt with a Thatcher government.
The “Special Relationship” has never been as-damaged as under the Obama Admin. Shameful…
Obama does not leave fingerprints. No, he did not lobby. That is Joe’s job. Obama is the messiah and he carries the message and hectors the people and sets the blame like a polished community organizer always does.
Maybe he will have Gabbie Giffords push James Brady in his wheelchair through the site of the Boston bombings followed by the Newtown parents and the siblings of the children who were killed by Adam Lanza. Obama can receive them on his raised dais as he launches into a sermon against violence, the NRA and the sequester. That is his job. Nothing more.