The Washington Post reports that the Obama Administration may be changing course on those proposed cuts to the ATF budget.
The administration wisely - and in this political climate, bravely - appears to have had a change of heart. "As part of the president's commitment to strengthening core law enforcement and homeland security functions - even as we make tough choices across the government - the 2012 budget includes robust support for Southwest border security, including an increase above current funding levels for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives," according to Margaret L. Reilly, a spokeswoman at the Office of Management and Budget. In plain English: The administration is promising to increase the ATF's budget beyond the $1.13 billion currently included in the 2011 continuing resolution. OMB declined to provide the exact dollar amount.
Could this be the beginning? Could this be the start of the long-overdue change in direction many of us have been waiting for?
Refusing to further gut the ATF is an important, but ultimately small, gesture. Assault weapons and related accessories, including the kind of high-capacity magazine used in the shootings just outside Tucson, should be banned; the gun show loophole for background checks should be closed. We hope the president's course correction on the ATF is but the first of many steps to combat the rash of gun violence that has for too long afflicted this country and its neighbor to the south.
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
"The administration is promising to increase the ATF's budget beyond the $1.13 billion currently included in the 2011 continuing resolution."
ReplyDeleteTo bad the administration doesn't have the "power of the purse."
Mr. Vanderboegh offers a convincing explanation for the Obama administration's abrupt reversal:
ReplyDeleteOne thing you must give these people credit for: their Baghdad Bob insistence on the meme regardless of the facts.
But pimping up the ATF budget now, indicates that the Obamanoids are confident that doubling down can make the Project Gunwalker scandal go away. Indeed, I think they did this precisely because of the scandal. They are putting their money where their cover-up is.
Good luck with that, boyos.
Yup.
Is that the same Mike V. who takes a monthly check from the government? Yeah, I'd listen to anything he has to say.
ReplyDeleteVanderboegh is simply a grifter he collects Govt. disability which amounts to more in one year than he's paid into with SS.
ReplyDeleteBTW, Vandebroegh has always been a grifter. Pretty typical gunloon--uneducated, fat, white, living off disability.
ReplyDeletevandeboegh is only worthy of derision. Here's a fat kook who is always advocating revolution, yet it's pretty doubtful he could be pried from his Govt-furnished scooter to actually do anything.
ReplyDeleteBesides he might miss lunch and his soap operas.
I still find it surprising that Zorroy, the rock star formerly known as Zorro, thinks so highly of Mr. Vanderboegh. Once he said he'd never be as eloquent as Vanderboegh.
ReplyDeleteI still find it surprising that Zorroy, the rock star formerly known as Zorro, thinks so highly of Mr. Vanderboegh. Once he said he'd never be as eloquent as Vanderboegh.
ReplyDeleteAnd my admiration for him has only grown with the work he and David Codrea have done in bringing this latest BATFE scandal to light.
Those assholes are going down, and Vanderboegh and Codrea are the reason.
Could this be the beginning? Could this be the start of the long-overdue change in direction many of us [yeah--there must be dozens of you] have been waiting for?
ReplyDeleteMaybe, maybe not. You win some, you lose some (as losers, such as forcible citizen disarmament advocates, are wont to do).
The Onion has a funny paragraph about the The One's courageous stance against "gun violence."
@Jadegold,
ReplyDeleteYou wrote,
"Here's a fat kook who is always advocating revolution"
You haven't actually READ and understand what he writes, do you?
If I told you, "touch my wife one more time and I'll punch you," am I advocating violence? Or I am threatening you with force if you violate my wife's personal space?
Vanderboegh doesn't advocate revolution any more than I am advocating violence. He's trying to WARN the government if they continue on their path of collectivism and abuse of our rights, the people will fight back to protect their rights from infringement, if they're pushed to it.
...Orygunner...
O: Untrue. Vanderboegh spews the bilge that the Govt has already gone tyrannical and he openly advocates revolution.
ReplyDeleteOf course, Vanderboegh's just another fat, white failure who is incapable of doing much of anything except flap his jowls.
Orygunner, You really seem to be downplaying the exaggerated rhetoric of old Mike V. Why is that? Is it a sense of loyalty you feel to the extremists of your kind?
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