Whenever someone comes up with a sensible suggestion regarding guns, urban blacks, illegal aliens or Muslims, or, God forbid, dares to point out the constitutional limits on executive power, I can count on some high-profile Democrat stating: "That is not who we are as a nation."
And because being a Democrat calls for a sheep-like subservience to the herd, once one of them bleats anything, you can count on all the other lambs chiming in.
The House Democrats attempted to remind people of the civil rights movement by staging a sit-in. They even, to their shame, sang a few bars of "We Shall Overcome." But mainly they chanted like banshees about gun control laws. In the end, they were more reminiscent of the union members in Wisconsin who stormed the state Capitol a few years back to display their anguish over Gov. Scott Walker digging in his heels and refusing to cave to their demands, which would have bankrupted the state.
It remains unclear what new laws they want. After all, the only thing the Senate Democrats could agree on, as four new gun bills went down to defeat on the same day, was that nobody on the no-fly list should ever be allowed to buy a weapon. The two obvious problems with that were, one, Omar Mateen, the ogre of Orlando, although twice investigated by the FBI, was never on the list and would therefore have been able to buy guns legally; and, two, the no-fly list is unconstitutional because it deprives American citizens of their Second Amendment right while denying them the protection of the Fifth Amendment.
That, by the way, isn't merely theoretical. Steve Hayes of Fox News and the Daily Standard wound up on the list accidentally, and it took him seven months to get off it. And in a piece of irony that should escape nobody's notice, Rep. John Lewis, a black congressman who led the chanting and singing on the floor of the House, is still on the list five years after his name landed there!
Even the ACLU, which owes its very existence to communists and its subsequent survival to the donations of liberals, determined that what the Democrats were seeking was entirely unconstitutional.
Besides, if new and bigger gun laws were so essential, why is it that when the Democrats had such absolute control of the three branches that they could shove Obamacare down our throats without a single Republican vote and there was a higher murder rate then there is today, they didn't pass a single gun control bill?
Speaking of which, even with only eight justices on the bench, the Supreme Court once again struck down Obama's overreach on immigration. Not even FDR, who attempted to remake America in his own skewed image, had as many of his power-grabs reversed in 12 years as Obama has had in seven.
One has to wonder which Constitution he and his charges were studying in his classrooms. And was Obama ever able to pass one of his own tests without copying off someone else's paper?
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Obama keeps saying that he has to create legislation when Congress refuses to act. But when Congress doesn't create a law, they are acting, just not the way the little tyrant would like. He is not their boss, and they are not a large pool of stenographers whose job is to take his dictation.
On about two dozen occasions, Obama said he lacked the constitutional authority to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens because he wasn't a king or an emperor, and then went ahead and did it anyway. All the high court did was to agree with what he said all those other times, while perhaps suggesting that, like that other famous royal, he was as naked as a jaybird.
It wasn't all good news from the court, though. In a 4-3 vote, they decided that the University of Texas could continue considering race as a factor in its admission policy. The reason only seven justices voted was because Elena Kagan quite properly recused herself because she had already declared her own bias while working at the Justice Department.
The reason the vote went as it did was because the occasionally sensible Anthony Kennedy bugged out, apparently deciding that even though he had opposed race-based quotas in the past, he didn't have the cajones to be the justice who finally put an end to affirmative action, even though it continues to be an affront to the principle that this is supposed to be a colorblind society.
And while I say that as a white man, I would say the same if I were black or Hispanic. That is because I would not ever wish to have my achievements tainted with the suspicion that I owed them to white paternalism, rather than my own efforts.
Meanwhile, in Baltimore, the prosecutor who should be better called the persecutor of the six cops, Marilyn Mosby, is now 0 for 3 in her attempt to railroad them into prison. Perhaps Donald Trump should consider adding gutsy Judge Barry Williams to his short list of Supreme Court nominees.
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