Unintentionally Funny

President Obama is blaming Republicans for the failure of his upcoming attempt to pass new gun control legislation.  I doubt he means the attack to be funny, but it is so silly that I had to laugh.  First of all, one would think that Obama might wait for the gun control legislation to fail before he started blaming folks for its demise.  But that's not Obama whose recent motto seems to be "All Blame All the Time."  Second, the truth is that the gun control legislation like senator Feinstein's new assault weapons ban cannot pass in the Democrat controlled senate.  About twenty percent of the Democrats will not support it; indeed, there is even a rumor that Harry Reid, the senate majority leader, will vote against it.  Third, you really need to hear how Obama stated his condemnation of the House GOP.  Here is the key section:

The Republicans in the House do not "feel compelled to pay attention to broad-based public opinion, because what they're really concerned about is the opinions of their specific Republican constituencies."
That's right.  Obama is now castigating members of the House for listening to the desires of their own constituents rather than those of others around the nation.  The representatives who went to Congress to represent a particular district are not supposed to listen to what that district wants -- or so says the great Obama.  Really?  Isn't that how a representative democracy is supposed to work?  Maybe Obama never got the memo.

I realize that Obama's statement was actually made by him; there was no teleprompter from which Obama just read the words that others wrote for him.  Even so, Obama's comments are remarkably stupid for a man whose press says that he is always the smartest on in the room.