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Obama Administration Sets Aside
Public Land Bigger Than Rocky
Mountain National Park for
Solar Development
Cybercast News Service, by Staff
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 10/16/2012 2:20:06 PM
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| The Obama administration announced last week that it is setting aside 285,000 acres of public lands to be used for “commercial-scale solar development” – a total acreage amount that surpasses Rocky Mountain National Park, with 265,461 acres owned by the federal government. “As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy to expand domestic energy production, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today finalized a program for spurring development of solar energy on public lands in six western states,” the Department of Interior press release on the new project states.
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Comments:
The blatant corruption and waste of taxpayer money continues on. It is absolutely outrageous. Where are all the greenie eco terrorists complaining about the destruction of land??
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Hank Reardon, 10/16/2012 2:25:18 PM (No. 8937549)
I can't wait to see these commies eventually rot in jail.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Dante, 10/16/2012 2:27:33 PM (No. 8937554)
Considering the debt level, the feds should be forced to do a massive sale of land over a period of around 10 years.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
TrueBlueWfan, 10/16/2012 2:27:41 PM (No. 8937555)
Please, Mitt, bring this up tonight!
The federal government already owns 2/3 of all the lands west of the Mississippi River. If they'd sell a small portion of it, it would go along way to paying our debt, but not this bunch, they take even more. Un-freaking-believable.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
GOP_U_BET, 10/16/2012 2:35:47 PM (No. 8937586)
Once you put up the solar panels, then the wildlife can't graze or use the land. What is green about that?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Davids918, 10/16/2012 2:39:29 PM (No. 8937595)
And the EPA, the Sierra Club and other Democrat groups are prepairing regulations and lawsuits to prevent the use of that land.
If they were truly serious about solar they would be retrofitting every gov't building, office, post office, school, university, military instalation, etc.. with solar panels.
This would be the real means to drive down costs which would then allow private business and individuals to use at reasonable cost basis.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
gobushcheneygo, 10/16/2012 2:49:49 PM (No. 8937621)
And I'll just bet every solar development company will be owned by a Democrat politician's family member or big money contributor...must keep all that lovely federal (taxpayer) money in the family. The fraud never ends.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
radrelic, 10/16/2012 2:54:58 PM (No. 8937640)
Why aren't the "empty quarter" western states marching and threatening rioting? This is typical treatment of the powerful of anf to the less powerful.
While we sleep and more to come after November and before January 1, even with an all GOP Nov 6 win. The metro area exploiting our natural resources, even the air and the wind and the sunshine that movesw through it giving us the visual pollution and increased temperatures at the land surface?
What have we rurals given up the wealth of the cities for if not the wide open spaces?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mws50, 10/16/2012 3:14:03 PM (No. 8937702)
I wonder why he did that, knowing Romney will reverse that idiotic executive order in about 3 months...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Marzon, 10/16/2012 3:42:07 PM (No. 8937797)
I suspect if you really did start covering millions of acres in solar panels the environmental results would be disastrous. It might even cause climate change...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MattO, 10/16/2012 4:23:03 PM (No. 8937890)
Wait! One of those states is not a swing state! Oh wait it's CA!--(Obamacare-Pelosi)
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
addicted_to_coffee, 10/16/2012 4:24:54 PM (No. 8937893)
Just for some clarity --- my calculation is that this is 445 sq miles or so. if in a single rectangular piece it would be approximately 20 miles by 22.25 miles.
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Arrest Made In Boston
Marathon Bombings
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/17/2013 2:01:00 PM
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BOSTON - A law enforcement official has told CBS News that an arrest has been made in the Boston Marathon bombings. The person has been taken into custody by federal marshals and will be in court Wednesday afternoon. Investigators made a “clear identification” of a suspect in the bombings, according to CNN, with surveillance video. Correspondent John King, a Boston native, said authorities have a clear video image of a “dark-skinned male” placing a bag at the second bomb site outside of the Forum restaurant on Boylston Street and then leaving the area before that explosion. The breakthrough
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Source: Suspect arrest
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BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) – A source has confirmed to Fox 25 that investigators have identified a suspect believed to be responsible for the Boston Marathon bombing and that an arrest is imminent. The source said that authorities believe the suspect was caught on camera at Lord and Taylor and that investigators have made significant progress in the case. It was reported that the suspect could be seen on camera dropping a black bag. Click refresh on this page for updates as more information becomes available.
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Authorities believe they have
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CNN, by Tom Watkins
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Investigators believe they have identified a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, a source who has been briefed on the investigation told CNN´s John King exclusively. The breakthrough came from analysis of video from a department store near the site of the second explosion. Video from a Boston television station also contributed to the progress, said the source, who declined to be more specific but called it a significant development. Earlier, a federal law enforcement source with firsthand knowledge of the investigation told CNN that a lid to a pressure cooker thought to have
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Tony Bennett Helps Brady Campaign
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Crooner Tony Bennett is teaming up with the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and Voices Against Violence on a text message mission to let citizens reach out to Senate offices. Bennett told Politico we live in frightening times, but citizens shouldn´t be afraid of speaking out against gun violence. “There’ something that’s gone wrong and, as citizens, we should protest what happened in Connecticut. It should never happen again anywhere in the United States and we should be the country that teaches the rest of the world that we, the citizens of America, want peace and not violence....”
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Dem proposes federal regulation of
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The Hill [Washington, DC], by Pete Kasperowicz
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/17/2013 12:47:12 PM
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Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) on Tuesday proposed legislation that would require hospitals to maintain a minimum nurse-to-patient ratio at all times, and allow the government to audit and penalize hospitals that fail to comply with this rule. Boxer said her bill, S. 739, is meant to help address the nation´s shortage of nurses, and would also ensure patients get the care they need while in the hospital. "I am proud to introduce legislation that will help save the lives of countless patients by improving the quality of care in our nation’s hospitals," Boxer said Tuesday.
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Conservatives concerned
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Fox News, by Joseph Weber
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/17/2013 12:36:36 PM
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House Speaker John Boehner is being pressed by the conservative wing of the Republican Party not to allow a vote on major pieces of legislation -- from gun control to immigration -- without majority Republican support, after recent signals that he could be open to building a coalition with Democrats. Tea Party favorite and second-term Rep. Tim Huelskamp is among the most recent to express concern, saying Tuesday that Boehner “assured us” that he´d seek a majority Republican coalition before proceeding on controversial bills. “Why do we have the majority if we don’t do what the majority wants?”
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Letter sent to Obama tests
positive for ricin, FBI says
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Fox News/Associated Press, by Chad Pergram & Mike Levine
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/17/2013 12:26:42 PM
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The FBI has confirmed that a letter addressed to President Obama has "preliminarily tested positive" for ricin, a day after lawmakers said another letter sent to the Capitol Hill office of Sen. Roger Wicker tested positive for the same substance. The warnings come amid a flurry of reports on suspicious packages on Capitol Hill. Fox News has learned of at least three suspicious packages in two separate Capitol Hill office buildings, compounding security concerns in the wake of the letter incidents and the Boston bombing, which the FBI has said
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Obama says he doesn´t believe
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CNN, by Jethro Mullen
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/17/2013 12:23:21 PM
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President Barack Obama has said he doesn´t believe North Korea can fit a nuclear warhead on a missile, casting strong doubt on an alarming assessment disclosed last week by the Pentagon´s intelligence arm. And he warned the young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that weeks of threats against the United States and South Korea had only served to isolate the regime further. Asked in an NBC News interview whether North Korea could put a nuclear weapon on a ballistic missile, Obama said, "Based on our current intelligence assessments, we do not think that they have that capacity."
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Sen. Graham gets a
primary challenger
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The Hill [Washington, DC], by Cameron Joseph
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/17/2013 12:18:44 PM
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has his first official primary challenger: Attorney Richard Cash (R) has announced he´ll run against the senator. Cash, a social conservative activist who narrowly lost a House primary runoff election to now-Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) in 2010, said Graham has lost touch with South Carolina values in announcing his candidacy on his website. "I am running to replace Senator Lindsey Graham because I believe that after 20 years in Washington he is out of touch with South Carolina values and voters. Although Senator Graham might be hard-working and sincere, I cannot distinguish
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Immigration bill bans racial
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/17/2013 11:35:25 AM
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The immigration bill senators introduced Wednesday bans racial profiling by federal law enforcement officers in most routine encounters, such as traffic stops. Under current federal law and court precedents, racial discrimination is illegal — but there is no specific ban on racial profiling by federal officers. But buried inside the 844-page Senate immigration bill is a section specifically prohibiting the use of race or ethnicity as a factor in “routine or spontaneous law enforcement decisions, such as ordinary traffic stops.” Still, that language already represents a compromise. An earlier draft of the bill, reviewed by The Washington Times,
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´Second Suspicious Letter
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/17/2013 11:20:13 AM
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In addition to a letter reportedly containing ricin sent to Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi, Fox News is reporting that a "second suspicious letter was sent to President Obama." "An FBI bulletin obtained by Fox News also said a second letter was sent to Obama, and was intercepted. That letter is still being screened," Fox News reports. The bulletin said both letters included the phrase: "To see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance." Both were signed, "I am KC and I approve this message." According to a
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2nd letter sent to Senate tests
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WASHINGTON — A second letter send to the US Senate has tested positive for the deadly poison ricin, according to a new report. The second poisoned letter was revealed by ABC´s Terry Moran on his Twitter account today. Yesterday, an envelope containing ricin was sent to the office of Republican Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi — and authorities last night said they have identified a suspect in the case, although he did not appear to be in custody. The letter was intercepted by an off-site mail-screening facility in DC yesterday afternoon and later was sent
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White House snub to Thatcher:
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Friends and allies of Baroness Thatcher expressed ‘surprise and disappointment’ last night as it emerged President Obama is not planning to send any serving member of his administration to her funeral. Whitehall sources have revealed that the U.S. delegation at tomorrow’s service in St Paul’s Cathedral will be led by two Reagan era secretaries of state: James Baker and George Shultz. Though President Obama himself had not been expected to attend, there had been speculation that he would be represented either by Vice President Joe Biden or wife Michelle. The Queen’s decision to attend
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Protocol: President Obama declined to send a high-level delegation to Wednesday´s funeral of Britain´s Margaret Thatcher. It´s a measure of how little he values the special relationship — and a sign of his own smallness. Back in more gracious times, vice presidents routinely attended funerals of foreign dignitaries. As such, the presence of Vice President Joe Biden — if not Obama himself — would seem fitting for as significant a U.S. ally as the late Prime Minister Thatcher, if not out of warmth of feeling, then simply to represent the U.S.´ gratitude. Thatcher´s uncompromising friendship
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Feds seek suspects, motive
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BOSTON -- The bombs that blew up seconds apart at the finish line of one of the world´s most storied races left the streets spattered with blood and glass, three dead, including an 8-year-old boy, more than 140 wounded and gaping questions of who chose to attack at the Boston Marathon and why. Federal investigators said no one had claimed responsibility for the bombings one of the city´s most famous civic holidays, Patriots Day. But the blasts among the throngs of spectators raised fears of a terrorist attack. President Barack Obama was careful not to use the
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Lawyer, judge erupt in
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He is known only as "Baby Boy B," a fetus estimated to be 28 weeks old, found frozen in an altered one-gallon plastic water jug in Dr. Kermit Gosnell´s West Philadelphia abortion clinic. His passing went unnoticed and undocumented, but on Monday, prosecution and defense lawyers struggled to get Philadelphia´s chief medical examiner to say whether he was stillborn or killed by Gosnell after being born alive during an abortion.
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Obama: ‘People shouldn’t
jump to conclusions’ about
Boston Marathon bombing
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Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke
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President Obama pledged that the United States would punish anyone responsible for the explosions at the Boston Marathon today, but he said that “people shouldn’t jump to conclusions” about the tragedy. “We still do not know who did this or why and people shouldn’t jump to conclusions before they have all the facts,” Obama told reporters during a statement from the White House. “Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups, will feel the full weight of justice,” he added. Two explosions occurred today near the finish line of the Boston Marathon,
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Boston Marathon bombings
present new test for Obama
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Washington Examiner, by Brian Hughes
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/17/2013 6:01:37 AM
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Authorities on Tuesday revealed little new information about the terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon, the most high-profile bombing on U.S. soil in more than a decade and a tragedy that presents a new test for President Obama. Obama, like all Americans, is standing by, waiting for answers as to who planted two bombs improvised from pressure cookers at the finish line of the storied race, and why. Three Americans were killed in Monday´s attack and more than 170 others were injured. "Anytime bombs are used to target innocent civilians, it is an act of terror," Obama said,
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Senate rejects background checks
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The Senate delivered a devastating blow to President Obama’s agenda to regulate guns Wednesday by defeating a bipartisan proposal to expand background checks. It failed by a vote of 54 to 46, with 5 Democrats voting against it. Only 4 Republicans supported it. Democratic Sens. Mark Pryor (Ark.), Max Baucus (Mont.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.), Mark Begich (Alaska) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) voted against it. Reid supported the measure but voted against it to preserve his ability to bring the measure up again. GOP Sens. John McCain (Ariz.), Susan Collins (Maine), Pat Toomey (Pa.) and Mark Kirk
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MSNBC’s Joy Reid Praises Obama’s
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MSNBC contributor Joy-Ann Reid told the host of Now, Alex Wagner, that she thought President Barack Obama’s response to the attack on the Boston Marathon on Monday was powerful and comforting in a way that President George W. Bush’s response to the attacks of September 11, 2001, was not. She accused Bush of being unavailable to the American people for the “first couple weeks” after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Reid told Wagner that the president’s statement actively combatted the intention of the terrorists, which is to make their targets feel “discombobulated.” “Having, sort of
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CNN: Pressure Cooker Bomb
´Right Wing´ Signature
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Breitbart´s Big Journalism, by Lee Stranahan
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/17/2013 8:56:39 AM
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An article published on CNN´s website makes an unproven claim that pressure cooker bombs like the ones used at the Boston Marathon terror attack are a ´signature´ of ´right-wing extremists.´ The article was co-written by Jennifer Roland and Peter Bergen. Bergen is the CNN ananlyst made the claim that right-wing extremists could be behind the bombing less than two hours after it took place. The article says (emphasis added) :A senior U.S. counterterrorism investigator told CNN that pressure cooker bombs have also been a signature of extreme right-wing individuals in the
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Let’s hope the Boston Marathon
bomber is a white American
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SALON, by David Sirota
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Posted By: STLstudent- 4/17/2013 7:38:32 AM
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As we now move into the official Political Aftermath period of the Boston bombing — the period that will determine the long-term legislative fallout of the atrocity — the dynamics of privilege will undoubtedly influence the nation’s collective reaction to the attacks. That’s because privilege tends to determine: 1) which groups are — and are not — collectively denigrated or targeted for the unlawful actions of individuals; and 2) how big and politically game-changing the overall reaction ends up being.
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Mark Kelly threatens to back
challenger to Flake over gun votes
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The Hill [DC], by Daniel Strauss
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/16/2013 4:33:26 PM
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Mark Kelly, the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), is threatening to back an election challenge against Sen. Jeff Flake if the Arizona Republican votes against legislation to expand background checks. At a Christian Science Monitor breakfast on Tuesday, Kelly said he would back an opponent to Flake if the "right candidate" was available and if the senator failed to support a background check bill, according to reports. Flake, who is not up for reelection until 2018, has been close to Kelly and Giffords. But Kelly said the issue of control trumped their ties.
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Obama: "Unimaginable" That
Congress Would "Defy" Americans
And Not Pass Gun Control
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Real Clear Politics, by Staff
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/16/2013 5:59:35 PM
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"I think we’ve got a good chance of seeing it pass if members of Congress are listening to the American people," President Obama said in an interview on NBC´s "Today Show" that aired on Tuesday. "The notion that Congress would defy the overwhelming instinct of the American people after what we saw happen in Newtown, I think, is unimaginable." Obama was then asked by Savannah Guthrie how he could expect Democrats in red states to vote on this bill when he, as a Senator, didn´t have to himself.
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