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GOP congressional leaders tried to have their cake and eat it too on Syria. They spent months screaming at and for President Obama to take action against Syria. Their first call was to take out Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime and then their later call was to hit hard at his military’s alleged use of chemical weapons against civilians. Then GOP congressional leaders deftly switched gears and demanded that Obama seek…

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The instant the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act by knocking out the key provision requiring Justice Department preclearance before a locale can alter or institute new voting procedures the  call went up for Congress to restore some version of this requirement. President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder quickly added their voices to that call. The chances of that happening are nil if the GOP has its…

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The dust had barely settled on the Senate’s vote to shortstop the GOP filibuster against the compromise deal that some GOP and conservative Democratic senators brokered on the gun control bill before other GOP and conservative Democratic senators began pecking away at it. The deal was to support background checks for private gun sales, and other lessor gun curb measures. The list of ways that these senators can dither,…

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THE WHITE HOUSE

EMBARGOED UNTIL THE START OF THE PRESIDENT’S REMARKS

January 16, 2013

Attached are a fact sheet and executive summary on the package of proposals to reduce gun violence and a list of gun violence reduction…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

President Obama’s unilateral White House action on gun control is a good start. But Obama took the action precisely because he knows that gun control legislation is a virtual dead letter in Congress at least for the time being. To force the issue, Obama would have to spend precious time, energy, and resources jawboning anti-gun control congressional Democrats, wage an all-out battle with the gun lobby, and the NRA, and…

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GOP Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell drew much derision, snickers, and ridicule for falling flat in fulfilling his oft repeated goal to make President Obama a one term president. Obama’s smash electoral vote and solid popular vote win made the GOP’s aim seem more comical. The fiscal cliff battle seemed to render it even more absurd. Obama was the big winner. He preserved the Bush tax cuts for the middle and working class,…

Congresswoman Maxine Waters appearing on The Hutchinson Report News Talk Show on Pacifica Radio on Saturday, January 5 hosted by political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson warned that she and other ranking Congressional Democrats will vigorously oppose proposed draconian slashes by GOP House members to vital programs for working persons and the needy. Waters is the ranking Democrat on the powerful House Financial Services Committee. She said that the…

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The last minute deal to avert the fiscal cliff brought fiscal relief, but that relief will be short lived. A year ago GOP congressional leaders made clear that if they have their way they will weld the meat ax on vital domestic programs. In March, they will get their chance. This time they have the cover and leverage of the debt ceiling battle, and they will be under even fiercer pressure from conservatives not to make any more…