++Paul Ryan said it was executive overreach. The Republican Senate warned Loretta Lynch that they would withhold Department Of Justice funding if she followed up on President Obama's orders. Fox News said they were impeachable offenses. Remember President Obama is not anywhere close to the executive orders issued by George W. Bush, Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan. He's in Calvin Coolidge range.
++Martin Longman at Washington Monthly has a more accurate assessment that Obama's proposals were modest and constitutional. The positive impact was to start up a national dialogue and an on-going narrative about gun deaths that take 30,000 Americans per year and now surpass deaths in car crashes.
++But the big story seems that President Obama cried and left the tears on his cheeks. This was the lead in Business Insider and other outlets. See, mature males aren't supposed to cry--I guess.
++The place President Obama started crying was when he mentioned the children at New Town,the massacre which Valerie Jarrett said was the worse day in Obama's presidency. He met with every parent and teacher in room after room to talk about the children. In the write-ups of staffers after that event,President Obama was grabbling to find words for this outrage and get his emotions under control.
++Apparently today those emotions surfaced as he said," I think of those kids and I just get mad."
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