Donald Kaul on 2nd Amendment And Makes GOP Threat

Radical leftist, Donald Kaul makes out an agenda response to the Newtown shooting and what he thinks should happen to Mitch McConnell and John Boehner.


I’m glad I retired five months ago.
Think of it: I was spared writing about the presidential election, an event so vacuous it made reality TV seem interesting. If there was any serious discussion of an important national issue — global warming, obesity, transportation policy, the morality of drone attacks on civilian populations, the environmental consequences of fracking, existential implications of the designated hitter — I missed it.
Instead, we got a campaign of misrepresentations, exaggerations and outright lies. The Republicans were by far the worst offenders, but President Barack Obama didn’t cover himself in glory either.
I was happy with the result of the presidential election, but I didn’t regret not covering it. And I was entirely content to go on not writing about things. (If I could make a living at that, life would be perfect.)
But then Newtown happened. A misanthropic young man who never seemed particularly violent killed his mother then broke into an elementary school and massacred little kids, teachers and the principal.
And the very air changed. The holiday season suddenly turned somber. You looked at the small children around you differently, as fragile, precious gifts to be cherished and, above all, protected.
Obama struck that note in his moving speech at the memorial service. Speaking for us all, he said: “We can’t tolerate this anymore. These tragedies must end. And to end them, we must change.”
Nice words, but somehow not enough. Not nearly enough.
That’s when I figured I should write a column about it. During my 50-year career, every time some demented soul would take a semiautomatic gun and clean out a post office, a school or a picnic, I’d get up on my soap box and let loose with a withering diatribe about guns, the National Rifle Association and weak-kneed politicians. Did it about 75 times, give or take.
And in every case the main effect was a spike in gun sales.
Still, I thought I’d give it one more shot ... er, chance.
Obama’s speech was fine as far as it went, but it didn’t go very far. Neither have any of the other responses I’ve heard.
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein said she was going to introduce a bill to ban the sale and importation of assault weapons. Great, but the bill wouldn’t apply to weapons already out there, and in defining illegal weapons, it listed more than 900 exceptions.
Nine hundred!

The thing missing from the debate so far is anger — anger that we live in a society where something like the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre can happen and our main concern is not offending the NRA’s sensibilities.
That’s obscene. Here, then, is my “madder-than-hell-and-I’m-not-going-to-take-it-anymore” program for ending gun violence in America:

• Repeal the Second Amendment, the part about guns anyway. It’s badly written, confusing and more trouble than it’s worth. It offers an absolute right to gun ownership, but it puts it in the context of the need for a “well-regulated militia.” We don’t make our militia bring their own guns to battles. And surely the Founders couldn’t have envisioned weapons like those used in the Newtown shooting when they guaranteed gun rights. Owning a gun should be a privilege, not a right.
• Declare the NRA a terrorist organization and make membership illegal. Hey! We did it to the Communist Party, and the NRA has led to the deaths of more of us than American Commies ever did. (I would also raze the organization’s headquarters, clear the rubble and salt the earth, but that’s optional.) Make ownership of unlicensed assault rifles a felony. If some people refused to give up their guns, that “prying the guns from their cold, dead hands” thing works for me.
• Then I would tie Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, our esteemed Republican leaders, to the back of a Chevy pickup truck and drag them around a parking lot until they saw the light on gun control.
And if that didn’t work, I’d adopt radical measures. None of that is going to happen, of course. But I’ll bet gun sales will rise.

Here is a shot of the article from the DesMoines Register.

You can report this threat (as I did) to The Capital Police here.

2011 Budget- Who Won Who Lost

Now that the 2011 Budget has be 'negotiated', who won and who lost this battle?

As I see it, the American people lost the most.
The Pledge to America to cut $100B for this years budget alone was not achieved, only 38% of it did.

The leadership in the House of Representative caved and caved big time.
HR1 was originally to seek spending cuts of $32 billion until Tea Party conservatives insisted on no less than $100 billion in the pledge.
House Speaker John Boehner won more cuts than he originally sought in HR1 and got the Senate to agree to votes to defund the health care reform law, however over $100B had already been appropriated for Obamacare.
Groups like the nation's largest abortion provider Planned Parenthood got some $ axed.


And back on February 3, Reid called $32 billion in cuts "extreme" and "draconian."
At a news conference New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., agreed, "I happen to think some of their cuts are extreme and go overboard. But every week they keep upping the ante and proposing extreme cuts."
You see, Democrats don't see our budget deficit a real problem... But we already knew that.

The history of offers on this bill goes like this. Democrats first offered no cuts, then $4 billion, then $6.5 billion, then $33 billion, then settled at $38.5 billion.


Boehner made adjustments to his offer in recent days too, but started at $32 billion, EVEN THOUGH in the pledge to America it was $100B, but then with Tea Party approval, it went to $62 billion, but Boehner then dropped to $40 billion, then finally $38.5 billion.

As I see it Boehner caved to Dems and they didn't even meet him half way.

All for some kind of fear that a shutdown would be blamed on the Republicans.

That's nonsense!

There for I am calling for Boehner to step down, as most Americans should too.

And for the House majority to seat Michele Bachmann in his place!

Passing of the Gavel

Today marked the start of the 112th US Congress.
And with it, some changes. I think for the better.
New House Speaker John Boehner, the 61st speaker of the House, took the Speakers Gavel from the notorious Nancy Pelosi and got down to business.

 

Like passing a new House rule package. 
The vote 240 Yea, 191 Nay
And it quickly trouncing Pay-Go which had a loop hole to allow new spending to be offset with tax hikes and replaced with Cut-Go that will require all new spending bills to be offset with other cuts in the budget.


Other new rules that were establish, with a new Constitutional focused House of Representatives, that bills would required be available to all Americans and members of congress for 72 hours before being voted on, require specific pre- and post-committee actions and require constitutional authority for any legislation introduced.


So, an end of a nightmare of an era comes to a close.

Something new for you.