Boehner Criticizes Democrats Over Mass Shootings: "President can rail all he wants"

[Bucky]

If your head explodes while reading this, I apologize

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/boehner-democrats-gun-control_561538e8e4b0fad1591a3c22

[font size="4"]Boehner Criticizes Democrats Over Mass Shootings[/font]
"The president can rail all he wants."

WASHINGTON -- If Democrats really cared about gun violence, they would have done something about it when they were running Washington, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) charged Wednesday.

Boehner was responding to a question about whether or not Congress should reconsider barring the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from studying gun violence as a health issue, especially since Republicans have repeatedly argued that addressing mental illness is the way to prevent mass shootings.

Congress has been writing restrictions against such study since the late 1990s.

Boehner said the the topic has not come up in his talks.

"I don’t think there’s been any discussions at this point. It’s not been part of the discussions," he told reporters on Capitol Hill before expressing sympathy for the nine people killed and nine more wounded in last week's massacre in Roseburg, Oregon.

Nice to include the murder victims in his comments as an afterthought. But follow Boehner's logic. If Democrats really cared, they would have done something. The Republicans have also done nothing about gun violence. Therefore they don't care either. Of course no one pointed out the man's logic at the moment. Don't want to upset powerful people, do we?

[Fred Sanders]

1. The magical "72 day window" when Obama could have created Paradise is also a strong myth at DU,

among a WAY too many.

[flobee1]

2. Iirc

They tried but it was met with a repug filibuster