GOP outraged by Obama's executive orders on guns, but still not certain why

[soulflower]

Funny piece:

Republicans spent Tuesday announcing that whatever Obama was about to announce in order to help curb gun violence in America was "tyranny." So, did the announcement of Obama's actual executive orders quell the fears of the paranoid? Of course not, and so we spent the entirety of the day listening to generic statements about how Obama's list of seemingly not all-that-controversial small actions is, in fact, definitely still tyranny.

Notably absent in any of the statements was a specific note of which specific Obama executive orders were the outrageous ones. Are we still going to impeach Obama? For which thing, for promising to nominate an ATF director? For informing the CDC that their scientists are, in fact, allowed to at least examine the issue of gun violence? The bit about more armed security officers in schools, which was the National Rifle Association's greatest plan ever but which presumably is what Hitler would have done, now that Obama actually agreed to it? Let's run down the list of oh-so-wounded responses.

Which ones, among the executive orders, are the ones that "make laws in violation" of the Constitution as understood by Rand Paul? Hell if he knows—his one-page document doesn't mention a single one of them—but he's aginnit anyway. Sweet Jesus, these people have sailed so far past the shores of reality that they can't even remember what reality looks like.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/0...ot-certain-why

[pcfixer]

I don't think EO's were signed. Only Presidential Memorandum 3 I think.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-...ecutive-branch

[flyboy56]

It's a tactic used to get out in front of the gun debate. Obviously a smart move. The President was hit by a tidal wave and backed down from his tough gun stance. Now he is just asking nicely that congress do the right thing whatever that means. Most people don't know the difference between an automatic and semi-automatic weapon and anti-gun nutters who do know are happy to keep the masses confused.