Posted January 22, 2016 1:00 pm by Comments

By Cheryl Chumley

President Barack Obama delivers a statement on executive actions to reduce gun violence on January 5, 2016 at the White House in Washington, DC. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

Boy, what a neat trick this is.

President Barack Obama tells the American public he’s going to bypass Congress on gun control and instead, issue some unilateral commands. One of his leading lying ladies, aide Valerie Jarrett, follows that, to paraphrase, by spinning, “Oh, don’t be silly, Obama’s not really bypassing Congress – he’s just issuing executive orders.”

President Barack Obama delivers a statement on executive actions to reduce gun violence on January 5, 2016 at the White House in Washington, DC. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

And now we’ve got an entirely disingenuous U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch taking to Capitol Hill to say: Obama’s taking executive action – true. But it’s really not really, truly executive action. Why not? Because Congress already gave him authority, via the Gun Control Act, to take these executive actions – and as such, they’re not really, truly executive actions.

Well, shut the front door. Suddenly, Obama’s much-hated executive actions on gun control have become legislative actions.

And the added political genius for this far-left White House? They’re not just legislative actions. They’re Republican legislative actions – since Congress, after all, is controlled by the GOP.

As the Grateful Dead might say, when it comes to …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze

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