NRA Chief Wayne LaPierre’s screed against everybody is on-going. In LaPierre’s mind the main victim of all this appears to be the NRA. But I want to set that aside for a moment and focus on one part of LaPierre’s statement — where he seems to be endorsing what amounts to ‘Prepper-ism’. We wrote about it today — the movement that Nancy Lanza was apparently a part of, that believes in storing supplies and guns for some inevitable collapse of civilization when it will be every man for himself. Read More
Don’t worry about the Mayan prediction flop. There’s still a ton of stuff to worry about, from the Aztlan/Reconquista Uprising to the new Persian Empire to just regular old avalanches. And there are people who worry about these things … a lot. Benjy Sarlin examines the “prepper” subculture.
It seems like only midday yesterday when Boehner said: “I’m convinced the president is unwilling to stand up to his own party.”
Picking up the pieces from last night’s debacle, Speaker Boehner holds a press conference in DC at 10 a.m. ET. Watch.
The report here is a little jumbled. And I’m always a bit skeptical of local news reports. But the gist is that the gun store where one of the Adam Lanza guns was originally purchased has some pretty bad inventory problems. Just days ago, an unmedicated schizophrenic was able to make off with an AR-15 without store employees even knowing it was gone.
From WFSB reporting out of East Windsor, CT … Read More
The likely truth is that John Boehner never had the votes to cut a deal with President Obama. Any deal. Not a grand bargain of deficit reduction. Not a piecemeal deal that might have lessened the blow of all the Bush tax cuts expiring on Jan. 1. Nothing. Read More
Boehner ditches Plan B, admits he doesn’t have enough Republican support to pass it.
Boehner summons House Republicans for last-ditch conference meeting at 7:45 p.m. ET.
The House was scheduled to begin debating moments ago the core of Plan B: the Bush tax cut extensions. But, in another sign that Speaker Boehner doesn’t have the votes, the chamber recessed temporarily to buy more time to whip up votes. Stay tuned.