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There will be no change. The economy is humming; media can hype their drama all they want; it won't matter.
I'm not a Trump advocate, so you're wasting your time trying to convince me that he isn't presidential. But if you think that Obama using demonizing rhetoric to get votes from far left Dems while opting to do nothing about gun control for fear of losing seats in Congress is any difference in substance than Trump not doing anything to limit gun rights because it would hurt him politically, then you truly are only seeing things through your partisan lens.
No. Republicans claim that they are for reigning in government and controlling spending. They campaigned for years on a repeal of Obamacare. But once they took control of the presidency and Congress, not only could they not get their party to vote for repeal, but they admitted that they had no better plan all along. They were just attacking Obamacare for votes. And now they've signed a spending bill that Dems wouldn't even propose if in power, at least not with a straight face. So no, Republicans aren't giving lip service to gun control, like the Dems, but they are giving lip service to other policies to try and get votes.
Fast and Furious...Love Politifact, a left leaning fact check group. Bravo. Obama could have gotten gun control legislation passed in the early part of his term, but he didn't want to do it because he knew it would play bad politically. As a law school graduate, I am well aware of the views of cons utional law professors and they are definitely far left leaning. So I wouldn't take a left leaning person's word as gospel like you do. But that said, if you think Obama didn't use gun control solely as a political weapon against Republicans, show me where he demonized red state democrats. I don't think you'll find any "articles" on that.http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...ol-mass-shoot/
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Obama couldn’t ins ute another ban without Congress, but he could still strengthen existing laws. (He had promised to "enforce the laws we’ve already got" during his re-election campaign. We rated that a Promise Kept.) He included the ban as part of a sweeping set of suggested legislation and 23 executive actions he announced in January 2013.
His plan to reduce gun violence included a focus on mental health treatment, limiting magazine sizes, strengthening background checks and restarting federal gun research that had been frozen for years. Obama issued further actions on medical histories in background checks in 2014.
"There is little more that Obama could have done on gun control," UCLA cons utional law professor Adam Winkler said. "The president's power is limited, and the NRA wrote the laws to restrict what the executive can do."
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"There were some really smart ways for an administration to do what it could without new gun laws," Heyne said. "The president really used the bully pulpit as best he could with a Congress stuck in unprecedented gridlock."
Whether any of Obama’s actions remain in place is up to the next president, Republican Donald Trump.
"Obama's executive actions on guns are likely to be reversed quickly," Winkler said. "The NRA has close ties to Trump and the organization is eager to reverse Obama's reforms."
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demonizing
Everything has so much politics anymore. I use sports (and this forum) as an escape from that bull . All politicians are the same--out to empower themselves and their party. If that happens to help the country that's okay, but it is just a coincidental byproduct. Give me term limits for politicians and disallow federal employees from unionizing and our country would be way better off. So Pop should just use his mouth to suck off Kawhi until he gets his ass back on the court and stop talking politics.
Demonizing rhetoric? GTFOH.
Politics are big business. They make a lot of money and have a lot of power. The funny thing is watching people believe that everything their party does is right and principled. It’s all a scam and most people don’t see it because they think a politician really cares about the issues.
Some politicians do care. Just because the ones you vote for don't, shouldn't allow for the write-off of all of them.
Tell me Obama didn't believe, viscerally so, in getting stricter gun laws enacted after watching his press conference in the wake of Sandy Hook.
I agree that the whole system is a scam. A capitalism in itself is a scam that only benefits the few. I agree with pop that since they have a voice and spotlight, they use it to make our voices heard(the many that does not have a lot of money which are people who make <$370k). I am a socialist at heart and Democrats get a pass for me cause they are the only party that do do things for the lower and middle class. Republicans are evil as furk. Republicans are all about the money for there donors, which are corporations and rich few. It’s pathetic that many do not recognize this.
Lol why would potus respond to a nba coach? Hes magait just goes to show how irrelevant Poop is when you consider that Trump hasn't addressed him, yet will attack nobodies on Twitter while he's on the ter in the middle of the night.
Pop talking about Trump means he ain't talking about basketball, which means he ain't doing his job. Ya'll want Pop to talk about Trump then you don't care much about the Spurs.
Wheres the dont care button? He can talk about whatever he wishes this is the United States of America its called freedom of speach.
Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should do it.
I like Pop and I agree with almost everything he says on politics. But given the difficult season we've had, I sometimes wish he would just stick to basketball.
Very doubtful that it will be in 3 years. Evidently you forget what trickle down economics does to the debt. Add in the 1.3 trillion dollar budget he just signed which will include hundreds of billions more in deficit increases over current values.
I swear you Republicans never learn. Definition of insanity and all.
Oh and BTW, he's going down for one or more of the following crimes: racketeering, criminal conspiracy, laundering, treason, or general douchbaggery. He won't even be on the ballot in 3 years. That's a guarantee I'd put money behind.
You gave us doubts in the primaries too.
And if it weren't for an antiquated election system, we wouldn't be suffering through this asshat. 3 million is greater than zero.
Debt is rising, numnuts. It was falling for 6 straight years under Obama, while adding 15-20 million more insured folks to the rolls. Now fewer people have it, but the rich got millions more in tax cuts. That's why this debt is crushing. Do try to keep up. And speaking of hacks, that's what I call people that get played yet do the bidding of their masters.
What precisely is the Mango Mussolini doing that Dems like?
And far from crying about his crimes, I'm ecstatic that we won't have to deal with him for much more than about 8-10 months longer. He's going down. Laugh it off all you want. And when it happens, look no further than the Apricot Abomination for the reason.
If you consider that a tough guy act, wait until Mueller shows the Trumpers his tough guy act.
Dip doesn't know the difference between debt and deficit.
Know it exactly. Simply used the wrong descriptor in the first part of that paragraph.Dip doesn't know the difference between debt and deficit.
Trump is a ing lunatic and a disgrace, so frankly anybody talking about him makes me happy.
Don't mind it.
Considering the local media guys ask the same questions 82 games a year.
Looks like the yea’s have it. We are playing by electoral college rules right?
There were 30 illegals voting yes tbh, no's could've won in a landslide tbh.
Sure, but the same can be said about quite a few things that Trump does tbh.
Damn it, will launch an investigation asapThere were 30 illegals voting yes tbh, no's could've won in a landslide tbh.
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