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Saturday, December 15, 2012

Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Ban assault weapons? “STFU.” « Fred Klonsky

Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Ban assault weapons? “STFU.” « Fred Klonsky:


Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Ban assault weapons? “STFU.”

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Back in July, ABC’s Jake Tapper reported on the role the Rahmbastic one played in getting the Obama administration to back off of  the the assault weapons ban.
Rahm, as we know, later left the White House and his role as Chief of Staff to become our mayor and on his watch see the murder rate sky-rocket.

“Now Emanuel had his sights set on Holder. The attorney general had gotten off to a rocky start with the White House with his ‘nation of cowards’ speech. One week later, Holder stepped into it again. On February 25, (2009) Jim Messina, Emanuel’s deputy, walked into his boss’s office to inform him of Holder’s latest ‘gaffe.’At a press conference earlier that day, Holder had told reporters that the administration would push to reinstate the assault-weapons ban, which had