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January 05, 2016 02:05 PM UTC

Cory Gardner Needs a Civics Lesson, Pronto

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  • by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE: Raw Story reporting, Cory Gardner isn’t the only Colorado Republican catching hell for his knee-jerk response to President Barack Obama’s action on guns today:

Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) wrote, “.@POTUS just showed w/ #guncontrol that he has no respect for rep. government nor the limitations that Constitution places on his powers.”

The congressman represents the district where James Holmes slaughtered 12 people and injured 70 others in 2012 during a late night viewing of “The Dark Knight Rises.”

With that in mind, Twitter users unloaded on the conservative congressman who has long been a top recipient of contributions from the NRA.

“Spoken like a man who accepted handouts from the #NRA. #StopGunViolence!!!” wrote one commenter.

The pro-gun “blowback” may not be going so well this time.

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Ugh
Ugh.

Senator Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) had an embarrassing response today to President Obama’s Executive Order expanding background checks for gun buyers.


Uhhhhhh……

Here’s Gardner’s full statement on Obama’s Executive Order, in all its idiotic glory. It’s fun to blame President Obama for stuff, but he had nothing to do with creating the “Executive Order.” While a small handful of constitutional scholars debate the legal merits of an “Executive Order,” it’s important to note that every single U.S. President has issued some sort of “executive action” while in office. If you’re choosing sides here, you can go with Gardner or everybody else — including Abraham Lincoln (the Emancipation Proclamation is probably the most famous “Executive Order”).

Gardner’s head-scratching statement was not missed by the Twitter universe. We’d encourage you to click on the original Tweet to read some of the many (many) comments that Gardner has received already. Here’s one of our personal favorites:

Former President George W. Bush issued nearly 300 Executive Orders during his time in the White House, a number that isn’t close to the all-time record of 3,522 issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (most of which had something to do with that big war thingy).

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6 thoughts on “Cory Gardner Needs a Civics Lesson, Pronto

  1. So, some folks that do this are genuinely ignorant and believe that the "constitution" doesn't allow these sorts of actions.

    Some know that what they're saying is actually wrong, but do it anyway to manipulate ignorant voters.

    Others just do it because they like spreading falsehoods, I guess.

    So, ignoramus, craven opportunist, or liar seem to be the choices.

  2. I'm sure there are some (perhaps many) in the modern GOP who would think that Lincoln's use of executive orders – including the Emancipation Proclamation – was constitutional overreach. (I'm looking at you, Nate Marshall…..)

    1. The Emancipation Proclamation would have been Constitutional overreach had it been targeted at slave-holders still within the Union and not within Confederate territories – and possibly was still overreaching if the courts had considered the rebellious states to have never really left the Union. The situation is complex, because the Civil War was fought in part around the boundaries of what was and was not "the United States" after the South declared they were breaking away…

      The Proclamation's actual Executive effect was that the US government recognized any slave that reached Union territory as a free man (as though they were an immigrant granted immediate citizenship), and allowed them to enter the military.

      The real work of freeing the slaves and granting them rights was done through Constitutional amendment.

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