Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Sickie Redux

This guy.  Again.

After President Obama acted on gun control, issuing executive orders that would expand background checks on gun buyers to stop felons from buying them, improve enforcement of existing gun laws, track trafficking of illegal guns better, and expand access for mental-health patients, among other things - none of which violate the Second Amendment and all of which will take some steps toward curbing gun violence in America - House Speaker Paul Ryan bashed Obama for showing so much emotion over the schoolchildren killed at the Newtown massacre in December 2012 and not showing enough emotion over victims of Islamic State attacks.
"I thought we should've had the same kind of reaction when [journalist] James Foley was beheaded, when San Bernardino and Paris occurred,” Ryan recently said.  "That’s the kind of reaction I had when those occurred."   
Ryan also said, "The President clearly does not respect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans," Ryan said. "We will not take this distraction for more than it is - a distraction."
He also apparently had a problem with Obama tearfully invoking Newtown at all ,although he did not go as far as to suggest that Obama faked his tears, as other conservatives have.
Paul?  Mr. Speaker?  From one classic rock fan to another - shut up!  You're not helping!  You're also making other white male classic-rock fans look bad. :-p    
You know, maybe Scott Walker isn't the most embarrassing politician to come from Wisconsin . . .

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