Well apparently our good buddy Barry "Almighty" seems to be getting just a bit perturbed, of late, as he watches the odds that stricter gun laws will actually be passed by Congress getting slimmer and slimmer. During in an interview on NBC's "Today Show" Barry actually said, "I think we’ve got a good chance of seeing it pass if members of Congress are listening to the American people." Adding, "The notion that Congress would defy the overwhelming instinct of the American people after what we saw happen in Newtown, I think, is unimaginable." Unimaginable? Really? Well what about that little bag of tricks that was implemented to 'pass' Obamacare? That was passed in spite of the overwhelming instinct of the American people, wouldn't you say? I certainly would!
Barry was then asked by, resident suck-up, Savannah Guthrie how he could expect Democrats in red states to vote on this bill when he, as a Senator, didn't have to himself. "I think that all of us had to reflect on what we did or didn't do after Newtown," Barry observed. "If the question is 'is this potentially difficult politically because the gun lobby is paying attention and has shown no willingness to budget?' Then the answer is yes, that's a given. Now, if the question is what's the right thing to do and what the American people believe in, overwhelmingly. If that's what's guiding members of Congress during the next couple of weeks, then this will pass." Whoa, wait a minute, back up! What the American people believe in? OVERWHELMINGLY? Nope, don't think so.
I'm just not getting where's he's coming up this cockamamie notion of his that the American people are overwhelmingly in favor of what it is that's being proposed here. Now he may wish that's the way it was, but it isn't, at least if we can believe what a recent Gallup poll is telling us. You see, according to Gallup only 4 percent of Americans think guns and gun control are an important problem facing the country. It would seem that Americans are far more concerned with such things as the economy, unemployment and the federal debt. All things that Barry has only managed to make much much worse, with some saying that he has done so pretty much on purpose. He's been the one who has repeatedly defied the wishes of the American people.
But back to this Gallup poll which was conducted from Apr. 4-7. Gallup surveyed 1,005 adults by telephone and asked, "What do you think is the most important problem facing the country today?"
Respondents answered in the following order:
Economy in general 24%
Unemployment/Jobs 18%
Dissatisfaction with Government 16%
Federal budget deficit/Federal debt 11%
Healthcare 6%
Ethical/Moral/Family decline 5%
Immigration/Illegal aliens 4%
Education 4%
Guns/Gun control 4%
Situation with North Korea 4%
Lack of Money 3%
Welfare 2%
Lack of respect for each other 2%
Poverty/Hunger/Homelessness 2%
Foreign aid/Focus overseas 2%
Taxes 2%
So apparently, despite Barry’s big push for more gun control legislation, even with his resorting to use dead children as a form of motivation, too few Americans are concerned about the issue. As Gallup reports, "Few Americans mention guns or immigration as the most important problems facing the nation today, despite the current attention lawmakers in Washington are giving to these issues. The economy still dominates as the top concern, followed by jobs and dissatisfaction with the general way in which Congress and the government work." As is usually the case when dealing with members of Congress, it's the issues that are most important to them that are the ones that receive the most attention. We saw it with healthcare and we're seeing it now with gun control.
Just a word here about what's termed as being the American peoples' dissatisfaction regarding how it is that Congress works. I think this is another piece of evidence that points out yet another glaring failure of our education system. Because if more people possessed a little more knowledge regarding such things as our Constitution and our system of government, and how it is that our government is designed to work they might come to understand that what was intended by our Founders, was a system of checks and balances, the purpose of which was to prevent runaway government. Granted, what the Founders laid out for us has now been bastardized to the point where it's barely recognizable, these days, but still, that shouldn't alter the fact that one party rule is a disaster. You'd think the passage of Obamacare would have made that abundantly clear.
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