USA Today reports, “Obama aide: Gun legislation in ‘near future’“:
“… White House spokesman Jay Carney said a special task force has been “working through these complex issues, and we expect to have some more specific announcements in the near future.” …”
Wonder if that “special task force” has anything to do with Project Gunrunner?
“… the real action in Washington this week isn’t the partisan wrangling over the debt ceiling but something — literally — even more incendiary: Operation Fast and Furious, which seems about to explode right in the face of Attorney General Eric Holder — and maybe other administration officials, too … With the Obama administration wedded to the fiction that 90 percent of the guns Mexican cartels use originate here — they don’t — many suspect that “Fast and Furious” was a backdoor attempt to smear domestic gun aficionados as part of its stealth efforts on gun control by executive fiat …”
I still cannot see Obama coming out with a grand scale gun control proposal along the lines of the Clinton AWB. With his approval ratings heading south, I can understand the need to shore up his base but pandering to the antis isn’t the way to do it. They have no organized constituency like big labor, no voter base to turn out and no money to throw around. It makes little sense for him to reach out to fringe groups which cannot give him the political support he needs if he wants to be re-elected next year.
The good new is the disarray of the Democrats; the bad news is the worse disarray of their Republican adversaries.
It’s still early in the campaign season.