El Paso County Sheriff Terry Miketa is one of the Bolder Politician/Law Enforcement Officers in my home state. He defied the Democratic Party when they threatened to take his campaighn funds and run another candidate against him in the upcoming primaries. He has stood up for common sense law regarding Guns, Mental Health Care and citizen's second amendment rights, in spite of Obama's two Visits to Colorado and his own Democratic party.
But . . Terry is one of the few who has stood up and said "YOU LIED!" to Obama. And perhaps, just perhaps, Obozo's popularity with a lot of the more moderate Left is going away. Here's an excerpt from a Dick Morris eMail I received today, and it's not the first time I read this today (already):
Why would the Senate reject something as evident as the concept that we shouldn't let maniacs, criminals, or those who have been named in orders of protection buy guns? Why would they vote to maintain the artificial distinction between guns sold in stores and those sold in shows when they are equally likely to kill or maim?
Is President Obama correct when he blames lies from the National Rifle Association (NRA) for the rejection? No. The president has only himself to blame.
The fact is that while the overwhelming majority of the public approves of the narrow terms of the bill -- to expand background checks to gun shows -- the president has so poisoned the atmosphere in our nation's politics that we don't trust the government and we don't trust the president.
The president was amazed that people did not read the plain language in the bill which bans using the background check information to amass a registry of gun owners. But he's wrong. They read it. They just didn't believe it.
And I still don't. I would expect one of Obozo's left hand helpers in Congress to slip in a rider or amendment to the current proposed bill just defeated, or, because they intend to bring this back sometime in the short future, they will further amend the initial Bill and try again . . .
And, there's a silver lining to all this if the Republicans and the right will take advantage of it. In any purple state, the Republicans should hammer the Democrat Congress and Senate members who are up for reelection, whether they voted for the Manchin-Toomey bill or not . . And for the Five Republican Senators who did vote for the Manchin-Toomey bill, throw their RINO @sses out in 2014!