Dan Ffeiffer, senior adviser to Obama gave his opinion as to where Republican Senators should be looking for answers on how to vote on the Progressive gun control legislation that will be brought up soon for a vote:
“If you remember, during the State of the Union, with the families of Newtown in the audience, every member of Congress stood up and applauded when the president called for an up-or-down vote on these measures. Now that the cameras are off and they are not forced to look the Newtown families in the face, now they want to make it harder and filibuster it,” he continued. “We can’t have it. If we have a simple up-or-down vote, we can get this done.”
I guess he was speaking to Kelly Ayotte. Point One – not “every member of Congress” stood up and applauded as your boss turned the State of the Union address into just another campaign stump speech (it seems that’s about all he’s good for – the eternal campaign). Democrats? Yes. Republicans? No. Point Two – Always the Progressive way: use, not logic, but pure emotional appeals. Why? It takes the eyeballs off the actual place where our highest lawmakers should be looking and evaluating their answer to the event of the day: the US Constitution. They swear an oath to keep and uphold it and not to the “emotion du jour”. Sure it does, but national laws should always be grounded in The Law of the Land.
This country would be a whole lot better off if our lawmakers actually took the Constitution (and the philosophy that spawned it) seriously instead of the Democrats following the “foreign shores borned” Progressive philosophy that should have stayed in Germany.
