Exploding right-wing heads thread

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Once Obama starts announcing executive order restrictions soon this morning, right-wing commentary and talking heads are going to explode.

Check in here to register what you see and hear! (with links if you can)

[Flashmann]

1. The Prez and VP

Are on live,right now...MSNBC anyway...

[RomneyLies]

2. The thing is, he's mostly going to be directing various agencies to better enforce existing law.

At ABSOLUTE MOST he'll institute a ban in importation of some specific guns, just like predecessors have done.

But the RWNJs will still go ballistic, articles of impeachment will be introduced, and there will be a wailing and a gnashing of teeth.

"How DARE he do what predecessors have done WHILE BEING BLACK!" is effectively what they will be saying.

[Lint Head]

3. I just heard an explosion. So that's it.

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4. Interesting called out that people are going to scream we're taking away their liberties

"They're a'comin' for your guns!"

Well, hell, if I had a toy growing up, and I wasn't using it responsibly, my mom would take it away. The same when my son tried using a bow and arrow and shot it at the house despite specific instructions to aim into the woods. He lost the privilege.

[Tree-Hugger]

5. Already had one Facebook friend mention the "communist President, just like Hitler."

I directed her to information on how to tell the difference between a Communist and a Nazi.

I hear the sounds of lots of teabilly heads exploding. Tea is just splattered everywhere.

I'm pretty sure some people I know are clutching their copies of the Constitution and wiping tears from their eyes with it....

[hack89]

6. Pretty mild recommendations - shouldn't elicit too much excitement. nt

[cyberswede]

7. I agree - I don't see anything here that people should freak out about.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022201400

1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.

2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.

3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.

4. Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.
5. Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.

6. Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers.

7. Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign.

8. Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).

9. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.

10. Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make it widely available to law enforcement.

11. Nominate an ATF director.

12. Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations.

13. Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime.

14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.

15. Direct the Attorney General to issue a report on the availability and most effective use of new gun safety technologies and challenge the private sector to develop innovative technologies.

16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.

17. Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.

18. Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers.

19. Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education.

20. Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover.

21. Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.

22. Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.

23. Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health.

[Recursion]

9. Come on, hack, there will be epic freakout and we all know that

But, this is Obama's main political skill: by being completely reasonable and benign he makes his opponents blind and stupid with fury.

[LibertyLover]

10. I have already had a couple of RWGNJ friends (well family actually)

on Facebook complain about the number of executive orders and what they contained. Of course you understand that last week they were complaining that there were plenty of laws already on the books that just needed to be better enforced. I finally put my one cousin on ignore when he and a bunch of his friends started down the 'Sandy Hook didn't really happen/was a government plot' path. Oy.

[RomneyLies]

12. Freak Repubelick is in meldown over them.

So you know they will have some effect.

[JoePhilly]

8. Civil War!!!

Over on MSNBC's site.

[malaise]

11. Rubio - abuse of power and violating the constitution

Fuck that opportunist