REPUBLICANS SHOULD RECOGNIZE, REVEAL THE REAL BARACK OBAMA

◼ Some people need a House to fall on them in order to see the light. - Dr. Susan Berry/Breitbart

Transparency is not only the right thing to do for the American people. It is the best way for Republicans to reveal the real Barack Obama.

◼ Krauthammer warns ‘in a second term, Obama is going to show who he really is’

On Tuesday night’s broadcast of “The O’Reilly Factor,” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer said President Barack Obama will show “who he really is” in his second term.

According to Krauthammer, Obama is already making good on his March 2012 comments to then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he would have “more flexibility” after Election Day.

“I think what’s happening here is that in his second term, Obama is going to show who he really is,” Krauthammer said. “Remember what he said to the Soviet president, ‘After the election, I will be more flexible,’ which means he can be more of who he wants to be. … [Former Nebraska Sen. and current defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel] is prepared to do the dismantling that Obama wants to do, would never have admitted he wanted to do, but [that] will likely be carried out now in the second term.”

◼ Obama lurches left with pick of Chuck Hagel, denial of spending problem - Michael Barone/Washington Examiner @michaelbarone

◼ 10 Things Conservatives Got Right About Obama - Kyle Becker/Independent Journal Review

During the president’s re-election campaign, conservatives warned Americans about what a Barack Obama second term would look like. Now some Democrats are having buyer’s remorse after Obama’s re-election, it’s time to do a quick “I told you so” from the right’s perspective.

Biden: Obama Might Use Executive Order to 'Deal With' Guns

◼ 74% Think Americans Have Constitutional Right To Own A Gun: While most Americans are clear they want tougher rules for gun ownership, they also feel as strongly as ever that the average citizen has a constitutional right to own a gun. Only a plurality, however, feels that laws governing gun ownership should be a federal responsibility. - Rasmussen

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 74% of American Adults continue to believe the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right of an average citizen to own a gun. Only 17% disagree, while nine percent (9%) are undecided.

◼ Biden: Obama Might Use Executive Order to Deal With Guns - Daniel Halper/Weekly Standard ◼ Via Drudge

Vice President Joe Biden revealed that President Barack Obama might use an executive order to deal with guns.

"The president is going to act," said Biden, giving some comments to the press before a meeting with victims of gun violence. "There are executives orders, there's executive action that can be taken. We haven't decided what that is yet. But we're compiling it all with the help of the attorney general and the rest of the cabinet members as well as legislative action that we believe is required."

◼ GUN-GRABBING LEGISLATION SWEEPS NATION - Ben Shapiro/Breitbart

Remember when the left pretended they liked the Second Amendment? That’s passé. Today, Democrats around the country are preparing for a big gun grab, the likes of which the Republic has never before seen. In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has actually publicly pitched all-out gun confiscation (or alternatively, forced gun buybacks), is now preparing grandiose new legislation designed to strip New Yorkers of “assault weapons,” as well as restrict the size of magazines. In the only provision actually designed to reduce crime, Cuomo will also propose harsher penalties for using a gun in the commission of a crime.

DRUDGE Headlines:

◼ HIGH NOON: SHERIFF BIDEN, NRA SHOWDOWN - The Hill
◼ 'The president is going to act' - Washington Times
◼ BANG BANG: CUOMO TO ANNOUNCE SWEEPING GUN LAWS - CBS NY
◼ Iowa lawmaker calls for confiscation - Daily Caller
◼ CT lawmaker calls for background checks to buy ammo - WFSB
◼ Gun sales soar in Atlanta - AJC
◼ 'Folks are grabbing just about any gun they can get their hands on' - Washington Free Beacon
Piers Morgan and Guests Discuss Shooting Alex Jones...
Teachers In Ohio, Texas Flock To Free Gun Training Classes...
◼ CUOMO TO ANNOUNCE SWEEPING GUN CONTROL LAWS - CBS NY
◼ Gawker Website Posts Full List of All 'A**hole' New York City License Gun Owners - Ben Shapiro/Breitbart
◼ CONGRESSMAN FLOODED WITH CALLS ON GUN CONTROL: 9-TO-1 AGAINST - Politico
◼ Gun show sees record turnout; vendors running out of merchandise - KSL
◼ AP: FEWER EXCITED GUN-BUYERS IN COLO, CONN.... Gun checks nearly double in both states - AP
◼ Show Draws Thousands Looking to Stock Up in CA - NBC LA
◼ CHICAGOLAND: Gun Shops Report Empty Cases, Bare Shelves, Phones Ringing Off Hook - CBS Chicago
◼ OBAMA PLANS BROAD GUN-CONTROL - Washington Post

◼ STALIN, HITLER, OBAMA, OH MY! - David Harsanyi/Human Events
◼ Media, Left freak over Drudge headline likening Obama’s gun grab threat to Stalin, Hitler - Twitchy

◼ Biden: Obama considering executive orders to deal with guns - Doug Powers/Michelle Malkin



◼ Why we need gun rights… - John Seiler/CalWatchDog

◼ Ten Outrageous Anti-Gun ’Journalists’ - Liz Thatcher/MRC

Media push agenda against 2nd Amendment while masquerading as objective.

◼ This Is How a Secret Gun Provision Made its Way Into Obamacare Legislation - Billy Hallowell/TheBlaze

There’s a widely-unknown provision in the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) — legislative wording that is capturing attention in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Pushed by the National Rifle Association (NRA), a newly-noticed regulation that was placed deep within the bill back in 2010, among other things, bans doctors from documenting patients’ answers to questions that focus upon guns.

The Washington Post first reported on Dec. 30 about the presence of this controversial wording. Under a section with the headline “Protection of Second Amendment Gun Rights,” the NRA-advocated wording is nestled deep within the law. The Post called the inclusion, “a largely overlooked but significant challenge to a movement in American medicine to treat firearms as a matter of public health.”

As the outlet also noted, it was in the final stretch of the debate over Obama’s health care legislation that the NRA successfully pushed to insert this language.... More at The Blaze

◼ PANIC: One Million AR-15 Magazines On Backorder - CNS News

Sales of firearms, ammunition and firearms accessories have surged in recent weeks over fears that the Obama administration will soon implement stricter gun laws.

Dianne Fenstien (D-Calif.) plans on introducing legislation that would ban military-style weapons and high-capacity magazines.

Because the PMAG holds 30 rounds, it would fall under the definition of "high-capacity" in the Feinstein bill.

But, before any such legislation occurs, gun enthusiasts are scouring the nation to get their hands on what could be some of the last manufactured PMAGs.

◼ Awesome! 15 year old defends home from burglars with Dad’s AR-15 - Poor Richard's News
◼ The 15-year-old boy and his 12-year-old sister had been home alone in the Mount Royal Village subdivision when around 2:30 p.m. a pair of burglars tried the front and back doors, then broke a back window.

The teenager grabbed his father’s assault rifle and knew what to do with it. - Fish&Game.com

1,351 days without a budget from @SenateDems.

Last time they passed a budget was April 29, 2009.

Get A Bill Passed, Mr. Speaker

◼ link - Hugh Hewitt/Townhall

There are at least three more showdowns with the president ahead, one of them in the immediate future as the debt limit looms. The president began this round last week, and was backed up in his posturing by Chuck Schumer. The president says he won’t negotiate over the debt limit. Schumer says “Yeah, that’s the ticket. No negotiation, unless taxes go up.”

Mitch McConnell has replied for the Congressional GOP and has done so forcefully, stating bluntly the tax hikes are over.

The Speaker has been silent and his leadership team has adopted his reticence.

The clock is ticking. The president and the Senate Dems are racing out to the same sort of lead that Alabama established last night. The House GOP has to get into the game, and soon.

Speaker Boehner has committed the House to return to “regular order.” I discussed this last week with Congressmen John Campbell and Paul Ryan and Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul and yesterday with Senator Pat Toomey.

“Regular order” means that the House will pass a bill, send it to the Senate and wait for its return in a wholly different form, or with slight amendment, and then summon a conference of House and Senate negotiators to hammer out the details pending final votes in both houses and then referral to the president for his signature or veto.

The promise to return to “regular order” comes as the Republicans in Congress prepare to confront the president over the country’s out-of-control spending binge. The president wants to raise the limit on the country’s credit card –the “debt ceiling”—and the Republicans won’t do that unless spending reforms are put into place, specifically, reforms of entitlement spending.

“Of course Al didn’t show up,” said one high placed Current staffer. “He has no credibility.... He’s supposed to be the face of clean energy and just sold [the channel] to very big oil, the emir of Qatar! Current never even took big oil advertising—and Al Gore, that bulls***ter sells to the emir?”

◼ Current situation: Staffers talk about first meeting with Al Jazeera - Linda Stasi/NY Post

Just call him Al Gorezeera.

Yesterday morning, the still shell shocked staff at Current TV was called to an all hands staff meeting at its San Francisco headquarters, which was teleconferenced to their offices in LA and NYC, to meet their new bosses.

That would be two of Al Jazeera’s top guys: Ehab Al Shihabi, executive director of international operations, and Muftah AlSuwaidan, general manager of the London bureau.

Ominously missing was the creator of Current, the self proclaimed inventor of the Internet and savior of clean energy, Al Gore, although his partner, Joel Hyatt, stood proudly with the Al Jazeera honchos.

“Of course Al didn’t show up,” said one high placed Current staffer. “He has no credibility.

“He’s supposed to be the face of clean energy and just sold [the channel] to very big oil, the emir of Qatar! Current never even took big oil advertising—and Al Gore, that bulls***ter sells to the emir?”

The meeting, while not contentious, was, according to staffers who spoke on the condition of anonymity, miserable....

One person at the meeting, who has already announced that she’s leaving, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, tried to ask about severance packages for those who wouldn’t be staying.

“This isn’t the place to discuss this!” Hyatt barked at her.

“After that, everyone kept their questions pretty much to themselves,” according to the staff member.

How do they feel about Gore the savior of green energy now?

The displeasure with Gore among the staff was thick enough to cut with a scimitar.

“We all know now that Al Gore is nothing but a bulls***ter,” said the staffer bluntly.

We do stories on the tax code, and he sells the network before the tax code kicked in?

“Al was always lecturing us about green. He kept his word about green all right—as in cold, hard cash!”

◼ Current TV Staffers Have a Moment of Clarity - Ed Driscoll/PJM

The New Liberal Aristocracy

◼ Modern elitists are past masters at preaching one thing and practicing another. - Victor Davis Hanson/National Review

‘Limousine liberal” is an old American term used against those who inherited lots of money and then became “traitors to their class” by embracing populist politics.

The Roosevelts and Kennedys enjoyed the high life quite apart from the multitude that they championed. And they were exempt, by virtue of their inherited riches and armies of accountants and attorneys, from the higher taxes they advocated for others. Few worried about how their original fortunes were made long ago, or that as lifelong government officials they had their needs met by the state. Most were relieved instead that as very rich people they wanted less rich people to pay their fair share to help the poor.

But the new liberal aristocracy is far less discreet than the old. Most are self-made multimillionaires who acquired their money through government service, finance, law, investment, or marriage. If the old-money liberals lived it up tastefully within their walled family compounds, the new liberal aristocrats are unashamed about living openly in a manner quite at odds with their professed populist ideology.

Take former vice president Al Gore. He has made a fortune of nearly a billion dollars warning against global warming — supposedly shrinking glaciers, declining polar-bear populations, and the like — while simultaneously offering timely remedies from his own green corporations, all reminiscent of the methodology of Roman millionaire Marcus Licinius Crassus, who profited from fires and putting them out. Now Nobel laureate Gore has sold his interest in a failing cable-television station for about $100 million — and to the anti-American Al-Jazeera, which is owned by the fossil-fuel-rich royal family of Qatar. Gore rushed to close the deal before the first of the year to avoid the very capital-gains tax hikes that he has advocated for others less well off. That’s a liberal trifecta: enhancing a fossil-fuel consortium, attempting to beat tax hikes, and empowering an anti-American and anti-Semitic media conglomerate run by an authoritarian despot — all from a former vice president of the United States who crusades for ending our reliance on fossil fuels and for raising taxes on the wealthy.... Read the Whole Thing AT THE LINK.