Ship of Fools

So, the NRA and their proponents in Washington are going Batshit Crazy over Prez Obama's directives on Gun Control, threatening to "nullify" it ASAP. Screaming wherever anyone will listen, Crazed Fanatics Of The GOP, such as Rand Paul, are saying things like this in interviews concerning Obama's resolve in passing his version of Gun Legislation: "I'm against having a king. I think having a monarch is what we fought the American Revolution over and someone who wants to bypass the Constitution, bypass Congress -- that's someone who wants to act like a king or a monarch."

A Monarch? A "King" just because he could use the Executive Power of his office (as have many other presidents) to move legislation in the correct direction. Hints that Obama could use an Executive Order in this Gun Control Battle is just that: a hint. Not a current reality, and based on the finer details of Constitutional Law, could cause problems for the Prez. Do we have more fear-mongering going on again? Is that all these GOPer's do? Stir up controversy? Why are we paying most of these Congress People? They haven't done anything. I, as with others, suggest cutting Congress' salaries if they can't get their act together. You know, as in Fire Them!
 
Who are these Fools like Rand Paul? Where have they come from? Until taking office in Washington, were most of the Tea-Bagging Whiners sitting around festering a deep hatred for minorities; refusing/ignoring realities surrounding the perfectly sane reasons to Legalize MJ; non-accepting that for-effing-ever in the human race (as well as Animal Kingdom), homosexuality has been part of nature – and, as so-called Christians, toss hate rather than Love At Their Gay Brethren because one line in a book suggests it's not cool despite so many other "Not Cools" all over Bibles and Holy Books that worked for THAT time period in history…not necessary for All Kingdom Come. I really want to know how these people can look in the mirror every day when they use religion to hurt people via selective line-believing, ignoring other so-called edicts which don't receive the adherence to God's Law as does that one in Leviticus. Hypocritical, right?
 
So, in my own outrage over the NRA and Others' Outrage, I eloquently, and with no due respect, suggest that all of these people STFU! Really, just S.T.F.U.
 
Note to mine self-appointed "enemies": You guys want to point "Monarch" and "King" in the Prez's direction, do you? Sounds awfully OTT and pandering to the Little Minds to paint another unflattering Image of a man who represents almost everything you hate. And I do mean "hate." That's what I'm getting out of these crazed statements from the GOP over the past 4 years: a group of Americans who have gained some sort of power and now want everything THEY want or else they will call you names, block your every idea, and, in general, play dirty at every game in the field of Political Drama…acting like "Kings" themselves by holding a nation hostage every few months because they are too petty to pass a bill they loved a few years ago under the True King And Monarch – George W, held by puppet strings by the crafty hands of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.

Sure. Let's go to war and bypass Congress. Let's do everything the GOP way while a Republican is in Power, but act like Judgmental Gods to deny a Democrat the same support for many a law/bill/whatever that once had been completely okay with GOP back in "the ole' days" of a White Man Republican at the helm. And we certainly were led like pigs to slaughter, weren't we? (Unless you are part of the 1-2%.)
 
I have to be redundant here and ask again, in a different way, perhaps, if someone would please explain in Plain Rational Terms how Banning Assault Weapons and declaring limits on the the amount of ammo a "regular" gun owner should have for basic protection and sport is akin to playing "King"? This title wasn't placed on Bill Clinton's head when he first passed an Assault Weapon Ban in 1994 (which expired in 2004 and has met with resistance – of course – since the expiration, to breathe new life into it and pass the Sane Law Again, for %#$@'s sake).

I don't like these people very much, obviously. They are Crazy & Irrational about anything Obama does - and are willing to sacrifice the safety of our nation on both violence and financial concerns (such as hassling about the Debt Ceiling). To me, that is called "Madness."
 
In the interim, have a wonderful Whatever!
 
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