Passive-Aggressive
By Mitch Berg
Back during the glory days of Fairness-Doctrine trial-balloonery from Obama and the Democrats, the President’s apologists liked to claim that “the President wasn’t going to push the doctrine”.
To which those of us who knew the issue replied “He, President Obama himself, does not need to do it himself. He’s got his choice of FCC administrators or Congress to do it for him”.
Anyway, in recent weeks the subject’s turned to gun control. Some lefties have claimed that “Fast and Furious” was not an attempt to used the ful weight and power of the federal government to slander the law-abiding gun owner; it’s risible, but it’s a point to debate.
But that usually gets followed up with a “President Obama hasn’t done anything to attack the Second Amendment, and he’s not going to”.
Which is wrong on one count – he was on the board of the Joyce Foundation, which actively funds anti-Second-Amendment groups – and he really doesn’t have to do it himself. Congress may be smarter (or more afraid of the NRA) than that, of course…
…but the UN is not.
