Top story: President Obama didn’t disappoint his critics, after going “big” on his gun control proposals. However, that may have been the easy part.
- President Obama reiterates the points he made in Wednesday’s gun control speech with a Newtown-area editorial. (The Connecticut Post)
- “Now comes the hard part.” (Huffington Post)
- Here are a list of the president’s 23 recommendations (The Atlantic Wire)
- Marco Rubio, for one, is already mischaracterizing the president’s new gun control proposals. (Adam Serwer)
- The NRA is planning the “fight of the century”. (The Washington Post)
- 6 excellent charts to explain how much money the NRA gives to GOP elected officials. (The Fix)
- Oh, and remember the time that former Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan pushed for an assault weapons ban? (The Los Angeles Times)
- And a second House GOP member is pushing impeachment over gun control. (Political Wire)
And in other news …
- The latest Bad Economic Science out of the GOP: Prioritizing payments makes default painless! (Reuters)
- No, it doesn’t. First, “figuring out which to pay first could be a logistical nightmare.” (The Wall Street Journal)
- Also, “the sudden drop-off in spending could also deal a sharp blow to the U.S. economy.” (Wonkblog)
- But for the most thorough debunking, check out (Next New Deal)
- Some in the GOP are worried they could lose the House in 2014: “Majorities are elected to do things, and if they become dysfunctional, the American people will change what the majority is,” says one member of the House GOP leadership. (The Hill)
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