Thursday, January 10, 2013

Yep

Allahpundit has it right, I think:
 I do think Weigel’s right that people are overreacting to the prospect of The One issuing some sort of executive order on guns. For one thing, it’d be uncharacteristic of him to risk his own political capital by acting unilaterally on something as controversial as that. He wants Congress to take the lead on this (as usual) so that he bears as little responsibility as possible if it fails or even if it succeeds and there’s a major backlash. He may issue an order but it’ll deal with marginal stuff. If he did issue one that was more ambitious, there’d be so much outcry and so many lawsuits that his second term would be tangled up in this for months or years. And he doesn’t want that. When push comes to shove, I don’t think he cares much about guns. He’d be happy to ban them, I’m sure, but my sense is that it’s not the sort of thing that drives him. What drives him is the “fairness” that comes with raising taxes by four or five percent on rich people and then doing jack about entitlements while the treasury slowly melts down from unfunded obligations. That’s the sort of thing of which great presidential legacies are made.
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4 comments:

Brian said...

I think Gino had it right yesterday. Obama feints an executive order, and you bring out the foaming at the mouth wingnuts (like, say, those that invoke Hitler and Stalin at the notion of magazine restrictions.) Your PR gets a lot easier.

I don't know if you've noticed, but Obama is pretty good at this whole politics thing...

Mr. D said...

I don't know if you've noticed, but Obama is pretty good at this whole politics thing...

I have noticed that. I've also noticed that he's God-awful at governing. And eventually it's going to bite us all in the ass.

W.B. Picklesworth said...

He'll certainly have a legacy.

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