during his state of the union address, president obama raised the hope of sol environmentalists by vowing action on climate change and energy reform. in congress won t act soon to protect future generations, i will. i will direct, i will direct my cabinet to come up with executive actions we can take now and in the future to reduce pollution, prepare our communities for the consequences of climate change and speed the transition to more sustainable sources of energy. now the white house is moving ahead with that promise by introducing new clean fuel standards. but if you re looking for optimism don t ask the republicans. we ll talk politics and pollution, when the executive director of the sierra club joins us next on now.
the obstructionist nra or the five republican senators threatening to filibuster gun legislation. or red state democrats who are too afraid to enact it. it s the fact that democrats acted too slowly. here s what milbank wrote. obama erred in trying to use newtown to build his positions on taxes, energy and immigration. he compounded the error by sending joe biden off to conduct a study. an unnecessary delay when solutions were obvious. once the president took his foot off the accelerator, no other action, not even bloomberg s ad campaign could maintain the momentum. the blame according to him lies with the white house. i don t buy it. legislating is complicated. it takes time and there s no more complicated legislation than gun control. there s a lot of particulars to go through and serious disagreements and the nra is
good fight. we do know that over 90% of americans support a universal background check and there is incredible momentum in congress and around the nation to get this done. any bill that does not include a universal background check is a mistake. it s the most common-sense thing that we can do to prevent criminals and the mentally ill from having access to weapons. now with some polls showing a recent drop in support for stricter gun control, one new beltway narrative gaining momentum is that gun control waited too long. should president obama have moved faster to bring this to a vote before the call for action began to fade? move it quickly, do it. don t put it together to this big thing and then start to be talking about all of these different kind of guns you re banning and having all these hearings, they failed to move quick. okay, so let s get this straight. the lack of progress on gun safety reform isn t the fault of
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