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Sucks to be you!

I’m guessing here that the answer is probably “no:”

Is the Obama administration planning another public push on gun control?

Vice President Joe Biden plans to meet with gun control activists at the White House this afternoon, according to his schedule.

It’s more likely that Joe Biden is trying to kiss up to gun control types in anticipation of 2016.  Barack Obama’s not the N-dimensional genius of his remaining acolytes’ fever dreams, but he’s surely bright enough to understand that gun control is dead for at least the remainder of the 113th Congress.  And the 114th, for that matter; if gun control types are going to be going after anybody this election cycle it’s going to be heretical Democrats.  That may be a personally satisfying endeavor for them (it might even be a reasonable long term strategy*), but it’s not going to result in less civil rights activists in the next Congress, which is pretty much the important thing right now.

So… Biden rallies the troops.  And Obama probably shrugs.  From his point of view, après moi le déluge anyway.

Via

Plan B? Biden meeting with gun control activists today at the White House washingtonexaminer.com/article/2528109

— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) April 25, 2013

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I am probably about six months to a year behind on that trend, but what the heck. Sometimes it’s just for me.

See here for background.

As my dear, departed father used to say – and, hopefully, still does – it’s good to want.

Many Democrats would no doubt dearly love an uncontested primary amounting to the stately coronation of [Hillary] Clinton. It would spare them a spectacle akin to, say, the 2012 GOP primaries, in which another prohibitive front-runner came out on top, but only after a grueling process of fending off a seemingly endless procession of challengers. It may never get that bad for Clinton…

Yeah, it would get that bad for Hillary Clinton, and for a reason that Tod Lindberg doesn’t bring up until the last paragraph: Vice President Joe Biden.  You see: I may think that it’d be dumb for Joe Biden to run for President.  You may think that it’d be dumb for Joe Biden to run for President.  The Democratic party’s base may think that it’d be dumb for Joe Biden to run for President.  But Joe Biden doesn’t think that it’d be dumb for Joe Biden to run for President, and he’s the guy with access to the state party organizations and leadership cadres and Rules Committees. (more…)

“Shot and mortally wounded.”

…And, behind him and to the right?  That kid with the glasses?  Yeah, him.  Take a gander at 0:14: he is giving The Look to Biden.

(more…)

:holding head in hands: Of course he did.

Background: in what may end up being the most epic Joe Biden Opens His Mouth EVER the Vice President told a Facebook ‘town hall’ hosted by Parenting Magazine that he had advised his wife that her proper firearms strategy in case of home invasion should be to… get a shotgun, brandish it, and empty the barrels into the air… Hold up!  Wait, wait, I know what you’re going to say.

• You’re going to say Do not wield a firearm unless you are prepared to use it; do not point a firearm at a person unless you are prepared to shoot that person; do not shoot a person unless you are prepared to kill him or her.  And you would be right.  Those are all true things.  But that’s not Jill Biden’s only problem if she follows that advice.
• You’re also going to say, like Reason.com did, that “since hypothetical frightened Jill Biden has just fired two shells into the air from a double-barreled shotgun, she is now disarmed, and has to reload before she can defend herself.”  And you would be right there, too.  Because that is also true.  But those are not Jill Biden’s only two problems if she follows that advice.

It’s the third problem that is going to really complicate Jill Biden’s life: what her husband suggests that she do in this situation is actually a felony in the State of Delaware*. (more…)

This is, you know, really deep and stuff:

The federal government currently puts hemp in the same category of illegal drug as heroin, LSD and ecstasy — but the Senate’s top Republican wants to change that.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R – Ky., joined forces Thursday with a pair of West Coast Democrats — Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley — to cosponsor a bill that would allow American farmers to grow hemp without fear of punishment. Also on board is libertarian Rand Paul, McConnell’s fellow Republican Bluegrass State senator.

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Oh, Joe.

“I have traveled over 640,000 miles since I’ve been Vice President, and most of the time the President sends me to places that he doesn’t want to go.  So I’ve spent an awful lot of time with McCain and others in Afghanistan and Iraq, and so it’s nice to be here in Germany.”

Mind you, I understand President Obama’s reluctance to visit either country: it is currently full of people who the President must find to be absolutely alien to him, not to mention completely outside of his experience.  The differences in morals, ethics, culture, cultural assumptions, attitudes about and towards women, religious belief structures, general outlook on life… these are all profoundly different; the President clearly does not understand the people who hold them, and never probably never will.  I suspect that Obama doesn’t really want to understand them, either.

And that’s just the American military.  God only knows what Barack Obama thinks of Afghans and Iraqis.

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(H/T: Hot Air)

This time, about where he was and what he was doing during a 2006 atrocity.

Mr. Biden told a meeting of mayors in Washington Thursday that he was about a quarter-mile away from an Amish schoolhouse on Oct. 2, 2006, when a gunman shot and killed five students and wounded five others.

[snip]

But a search of maps of the area in Lancaster County, Pa., shows the nearest golf course to the site of the shooting, Moccasin Run Golf Club, is about five miles away. Rodney King, the golf pro at Moccasin Run, said Friday he was working at the course on the day of the shooting and never saw Mr. Biden, who was then a U.S. senator.

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From the New York Times’ glum realization that no, the President has no stomach for a fight with pro-gun civil rights activists over the 2nd Amendment comes two sentences that really did deserve a directed lightning strike.

In addition to limits on high-capacity magazines and expanded background checks, Mr. Biden’s group is looking at ways of keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill and cracking down on sales that are already illegal. One possibility is tougher laws against straw purchasing with longer prison terms for those who buy guns for others.

Unless they work for the Obama administration, of course.  In that case there’s apparently no need for prison terms at all.

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PS: It must be distressing, having a President from one’s party who is also a coward.  I wouldn’t know, of course: I’m a Republican.

Now that it’s official that John Boehner has won the Speakership again – which, by the way, was a foregone conclusion, given that nobody wanted to go on the record as being an opposition candidate – let us note very quickly this little bit of profane drama from last week:

House Speaker John Boehner couldn’t hold back when he spotted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the White House lobby last Friday.

It was only a few days before the nation would go over the fiscal cliff, no bipartisan agreement was in sight, and Reid had just publicly accused Boehner of running a “dictatorship” in the House and caring more about holding onto his gavel than striking a deal.

“Go f— yourself,” Boehner sniped as he pointed his finger at Reid, according to multiple sources present.

Reid, a bit startled, replied: “What are you talking about?”

Boehner repeated: “Go f— yourself.”

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Biden didn’t even notice him calling President Obama “President Clinton,” either. That kid right behind him at 0:05 sure did, though.

Anyway, I can’t say that I blame Biden for the substitution. Right now the Democratic party faithful all probably wish that they could…

Via Powerline, via Instapundit.

I normally don’t do this sort of thing, but what the heck.

So.  Biden thinks that he’s been helpful!  The WaPo lists the ways.

In nearly four years as vice president, Biden has been the chief monitor of the economic recovery efforts, coordinating federal projects with mayors and governors.

…What economic recovery? (more…)