round magazine when you can instead kill so many more people so much faster with the big magazines? so leave that one at home but bring the 30 rounders. part of the beltway come mop wisdom that nothing is going to happen, there is a connecticut effect and it s wearing off and people don t care anymore and the nra will win again because nobody cares to insist on popular policies the nra . one of the constituent parts of that common wisdom is that presidents cannot stay focused on issues like this for very long. presidents don t stay focused on this stuff after the immediate impact wears off. a president will not stick with it to fight the inertia the nra is counting on. this president has not been like that, pretty much relentless on this issue 100 straight days. today, president obama hosted families from newtown at the white house. he took on, head on that common wisdom if you just wait long enough, we will all stop caring.
pod, and you having this 8:00 show, shows this. we approach how to do this work very differently. our shows will be very different. one of the reasons i like talking to you about big, difficult problems that don t have easy answers like this, i feel like you have a good multi-varied approach towards difficult things. you look at the va backlog, getting this renewed attention. you look at the fact there s no bipartisan disagreement on this whatsoever yet it is getting worse, what do you think is the way out of it? i think there s a few fascinating things. one is it makes us think what is the actual political power veterans in our society have because in some ways the proof is in the pudding, right? there s the rhetorical honor they are granted and then there s the actual power that they have. the way you look at power in a
i want to prevent any other family from having to go through what we re going through. don t let the memory of newtown fade without doing something real. demand action now. that ad is supposed to air on cable tv and on broadcast tv, specifically in connecticut. it s targeted at the connecticut state legislature. it s meant to get them to enact gun reforms like comprehensive background checks and a ban on high capacity magazines in the state where newtown happened. new york state and colorado have taken those kinds of actions since newtown but connecticut has not. connecticut democrats say they plan to but have yet to pass any new legislation since newtown. mayors against illegal guns frankly not just with this ad but everything they re doing are kind of in overdrive now. in addition to these ads and 100 events around the country, they announced a $12 million ad buy,
in all the press, which has all been good press, i would say, knock on wood, about your launch, everybody says you and i are so much alike, peas in a pod, and you having this 8:00 show, shows this. we approach how to do this work very differently. our shows will be very different. one of the reasons i like talking to you about big, difficult problems that don t have easy answers like this, i feel like you have a good multi-varied approach towards difficult things. you look at the va backlog, getting this renewed attention. you look at the fact there s no bipartisan disagreement on this whatsoever yet it is getting worse, what do you think is the way out of it? i think there s a few fascinating things. one is it makes us think what is the actual political power veterans in our society have because in some ways the proof is in the pudding, right? there s the rhetorical honor they are granted and then there s the actual power that they have. the way you look at power in a
why handicap yourself with a 10 round magazine when you can instead kill so many more people so much faster with the big magazines? so leave that one at home but bring the 30 rounders. part of the beltway common wisdom that nothing is going to happen, there is a connecticut effect and it s wearing off and people don t care anymore and the nra will win again because nobody cares to insist on popular policies the nra opposes. one of the constituent parts of that common wisdom is that presidents cannot stay focused on issues like this for very long. presidents don t stay focused on this stuff after the immediate impact wears off. a president will not stick with it to fight the inertia the nra is counting on. this president has not been like that. this president has been pretty much relentless on this issue 100 straight days. today, president obama hosted families from newtown at the white house.