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rugerfan wrote:If obama is threatening to push gun control via an EO, doesn't that signify that they don't have enough votes even from democrats to support such a thing?

Exactly.

jmra wrote:"This country with its institutions belong to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
Abraham Lincoln, Inaugural address 1861

Anybody think an EO would make people weary?

If you read the full text of Mr. Lincoln's Inaugural Address, you will see that he believed in our government exactly the way the forefathers intended it to be. He saw the constitution as "perpetual." His entire address was centered around the Constitution and how what he wanted to accomplish was driven by it. The word "Constitution" was mentioned too many times to count.

For the record, in Mr. Obama's Inaugural Address, he mentioned the word "Constitution" exactly ZERO (0) [goose egg] times. Yep, hard to believe, coming from a former Professor of Constitutional Law. Here it is for reference: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/inaugural-address

I'm almost ashamed.