Hubbub in a Holster

It is always dangerous to make policy changes in the wake of disaster. The President seeks to use the Newtown tragedy not so much to prevent the next one, but to advance his agenda. So his Rose Garden anger/blame speech over the Senate gun control failure conveniently failed to mention another vote related to the bill that only garnered 40 votes. There are problems with the bill which the President actually misrepresented in his fervor to call the NRA liars. When discussing the amendment's prohibition against a national gun registry, he failed to mention it only applied to the attorney general, and not other governmental agencies. As we move on to deal with the important mental health aspects of gun control, it is not hard to imagine HHS deciding it needs to consolidate information to cross-check with mental health records coming from a healthcare system falling under steadily increasing federal control. The Senate should move forward to resolve the issues with this bill. Speaking of post-disaster policy initiatives, it is ironic that a decade ago the liberal establishment railed against Bush anti-terrorist legislation, a lot of which President Obama promised to eliminate, then eventually decided to extend. He's a smart guy, and knows when to switch from principles to public relations. Obama is working very hard to fool the American public again. He's busy taking moderate stances on entitlements and painting the opposition as radicals out of touch with the mainstream. This is all about the 2014 Congressional elections. The divided legislature keeps him from an unencumbered implementation of his "equal outcomes" agenda. I suppose he was growing up in Indonesia and didn't get "equal opportunity" translated correctly--or didn't realize that it didn't exist there. If this occurs, one can only hope that the Congress will realize they need to get re-elected, and that need may trump the President's agenda.