Republican Threatens DoJ Budget Over Obama's 'Tyrannical' Gun Control Action
"The next twelve months will be an especially dangerous time for Americans who treasure our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms," warns Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas), chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the Justice Department (DoJ). As The Hill reports, his warning, in a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, follows a threat to block President Obama's executive order on guns by defunding the DoJ.
The following letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch from Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas), chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the Justice Department, clearly warns against enforcing the 'new' gun restrictions.
Culberson went on to add:
"I have formally notified Attorney General Lynch that I will aggressively protect our Second Amendment rights using Congress' power of the purse...
I notified the attorney general that if the Department of Justice attempted to create new restrictions on our Constitutional rights that I would use every tool at my disposal to immediately restrict their access to federal funding.”
As The Hill continues, Culberson appears to be the first Republican to call to block DOJ funding over the executive action on guns.
In future budget agreements, House appropriators could specifically prohibit the Justice Department from enforcing the gun restrictions without defunding the entire agency.
Culberson warned Lynch not to “create new law” in his letter.
“The House Appropriations Committee will not provide resources to your department for the development or implementation of unlawful limitations on the unambiguous Second Amendment rights of Americans,” Culberson wrote.
Culberson’s letter follows harsh words that Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) had for the Obama administration earlier Monday.
He accused Obama of “subverting” Congress by taking executive action on gun control.
“We all are pained by the recent atrocities in our country, but no change the president is reportedly considering would have prevented them,” Ryan said.
As President Obama prepares to address the nation at 1120ET to explain how everyone will be safer if applications for gun use are made more onerous, one can't help but wonder if Culberson would actually follow-through on his threats... and if not what kind of reaction "we, the people" will have.
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Some details from 0bama’s gun-controlling executive action are emerging.
He plans to outlaw all devices with a pistol-like grip, i.e. drills, handheld kitchen mixers, and glue guns.
Also, large capacity nailguns and staplers are on the chopping block. ;-)
Looney
"Also, large capacity nailguns and staplers"
It's a good way to save his and Hillarous' bankster campaign donors.
His next executive order should replace the Teleprompter with… LIP-SYNCING! ;-)
Looney
Free Corzine!
Obama's Executive Order is nothing more than a make-work project for more government workers, but more importantly, for more fat government contracts going to contributors.
"Subcomittee on Commerse, Justice, Science and Other Related Agencies"
Nope, government is not too big. Not at all.
pods
It's a great sign of the people we live with that almost without question they presume that throwing government-printed fiat currency at a problem is "doing your job" as president.
Gone are the days when Americans had any notion of what hard work is, and why it is the only truly valuable thing on this earth.
Gone are the days when Americans had any notion of what hard work is, and why it is the only truly valuable thing on this earth.
That is a correct statement but using it when referring to the President would be incorrect since he is not an American. In fact, he's un-American!
My Rights are bestowed upon me by God Almighty and Natural Law, no person anywhere in the universe can usurp these rights.
If the Obama Regime and its fellow jackbooted thugs in the DemoNazi Party or any statist traitor of any affiliation wants to make me a criminal in their eyes, so be it. I will wear their illegitimate label with honor, for it is like being called lawless by the Devil.
I am Kralizec, and I am labeled a criminal by fascists.
Molan Labe!
Thats rayciss and antisemitic!
Will someone do us all a favor and take away that piece of shit's "phone and a pen" and while they are at it, someone take his fucking golf clubs too.....
motherfucker does what he wants, no matter what the law is. Motherfucker wastes time playing instead of working....then when that fucker finally gets around to doing something, he fucks everything up making unconstitutional laws (and this POS was a constitutional lawyer?), illegal laws (since when does the president make laws?) ..... The bitch does what he wants to do, whenever he wants to do it. Sound familiar?
TYPICAL FRO!
It looks like the Democrats are throwing in the towel for the 2016 Presidential Elections and going full fascist. Welcome to Amerika 2016 Comrades.
"Nope, government is not too big. Not at all."
That being said, Carry on Mr Bundy & crew.
Took the kids to the range over Christmas break. I shoot an FN 45 ACP (large by most standards). My son, who is 12 and TINY for his age, at 7 yards put the first 3 rounds dead nuts center, practically the same hole. 10 rounds were 10's and 4 were 9's. My 15 YO daughter did similarly as well, but not quite as well as my son.
Awesome!
Don't forget to teach them to ALWAYS keep that muzzle on the threat until he is truly stopped, then when it is safe to scan for other threats, ALWAYS do so.
The fight isn't over until second sight and scan tells us it is over.
Peace.
Absolutely. This summer we'll be working on double-taps, 3 round controlled bursts with the AR, and controlled breathing with the .308
;)
Makes me wonder why the O never tried this gun-free zone thingy in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria ...
His actions have spoken: He trusts random Syrians more than he trusts US citizens ...
..... and he (and his DOJ) trusts drug cartel members that live in mexico, more than he trusts the good people here in america!
What a treasonous piece of shit!
If you did that in Washington State you would have committed several felonies. Bloomberg, Ballmer, and a Hedge Fund zillionaire Jew all spent BIG MONEY and worked feverishly, along with Seattle Jewish groups, to get the Seattle vote, which decides what happens in that state, for a Proposition in the 2014 election, which makes it a felony to transfer, even temporarily, a firearm, say at a range a Grandfather and grandchild, without an FBI Background check.
I neglected to mention they were going "pew pew" with their fingers. ;)
And no one pays attention to it.
..but yes, that law is a major pain.
If my hate for Microsoft was not enough, this certainly give me extra reason to despise that asshole Balmer........stupid jumping monkey boy (search YouTube for that phrase)
Laddie,
Welcome to Arkansas! We rang in the New Year shooting (fully legal) Full Auto, and lighting fuses (fully legal) on things that go Boom. IT WAS GREAT!
Around here, it's known as "Recoil Therapy".
"Free John Corzine"
Exactly.
Defund the DoJ is something ALL the political PUPPETS will get behind as they are ALL corrupt fascist CRIMMINALS.
Roll the motherfucking guillotines, NOTHING changes otherwise!
We've seen 7 years of this failed presidency.
Who needs to see one more?
No need to promote Biden either.
A rudderless ship you say?
No worries. COG has got your back.
did these cocksuckers not take an oath? did they place their hand in the air and swear to uphold the constitution? i think we have a moar basic issue here...
duplication of the allocation of thoughts...
Obama OWNED this Congress....he is the man - congress is pathetic and Obama has shown to be smarter and better in everyway. Congress is his little bitch.
Nigga please.
It takes a shit ton of "money" to get "elected". The FED controls the money supply and OWNS EVERY SINGLE FEDERAL POLITICIAN.
Wake the fuck up.
that's wrong, and I can tell that even from very afar. the FED itself is controlled and influenced, and does not "own" anything, for sure not directly
US Congressmen? you know how they are elected. in carefully shaped districts, with every zip-code taken in account, and more often then not with one mega-employer based there. with the result of several districts having the same representative for evah, and sometimes even children succeding parents
the most radical proposal that could be done in the US would be to slap districts together and have several seats for election, proportionally to the votes. a proposal that I think you would hate
Not even close, sir.
The most radical proposal that could be done in the US would be a government that is truly of, by, and for The People...sortition...with one-year terms, and make bribery of a public official a capital crime, for both parties.
you mean the old Athenian Isocracy? usually I would attach a wikipedia article about that, but I see now that it has been... redacted. funny things can happen on the 'nets
I stand corrected, sir, +1. Your proposal is even more radical then mine. I can only claim that mine would be more conventional, and be enough to give our friend some fits
my criticism about US libertarianism is unchanged, though. imho the movement is more concerned about unpractical solutions then practical ones. ideological purity... period
to the point that I often ask myself if it's not per design
A bit less radical, and perhaps doable in today's climate, would be a ONE TERM LIMIT on Senators, and a TWO TERM limit on Reps. Forever limits, can't run again.
And get rid of all the fucking gooodies these criminals have voted themselves over the years, like free life-time health care and insane retirement 'benefits'.
Fuckers.
agreed, but these very blood(cock too)suckers would be the ones proposing or blocking above change, hmmm- think it will NOT be happening anytime soon. se that is the fundamental problem. the problem has to change the problem...
NO TERM LIMITS
That is the only tool we have to reward those who actually serve us and to punish those who do not.
And there is the problem. They have a huge amount of power -and Zero responsibility to balance it. What we Need is to hold a special vote when any of them leaves office, and We get to decide if they get a Paycheck or a Prison Sentence.
Accountability needs to be brought into Government one way or another and 'term limits' are a joke, they'll just do as much damage as they can before revolving door back into JP Morgan or someplace that gained from their actions as political hacks.
Prison or Paycheck -let's see how many of them screw us, when the people have the power to screw back.
Courtesy of Milli Vanilli.
Yeahyeah riiight. By the time the NSA are done with Ryan's and Culberson's special files, they'll both be proposing and voting to increasing the DOJ's budget-inclusive of funding for neighborhood sweeps.
Outlaw guns except for those who he ambiguously choses to allow to have guns to protect politicians and bankers at any time without warning.
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Banning guns SAVES LIVES!- Check
Black Lives Matter! - Check
Banning gun sales to Blacks would save Black lives! -?????
Looney, you are outdoing yourself this morning. What you drinkin' (or smokin')?
I want some...
The full context of this is that both Republicans and Democrats as parties and as members of Congress fully condone the Treason that was the 9/11 False Flag operation that replaced our government with the Israeli-Neocon Cabal.
We have a facade of a US Constitutional government, the reality is long gone.
Well at least Obama is a constitutional scholar...
Sticking wth the earlier Articles of Confederation looks pretty good in retrospect.
The Constitutional Convention was a coup of sorts, but I'd defer to "the Constitutional scholar," for an opinion in that regard.
I don't know who, in a sane frame of mind, would down-vote your comment, but obviously they're lacking something... Your comments strike at the root of the problem itself - 'Federalism'. And what this shill mouthpiece frontman in the Oval Office is doing provides fertile, evidentiary proof. We are nothing more but seeing the 'fruits' of that Hamiltonian 'coup' of centralized power that Federalism all but guaranteed right from the start.
The adoption of our constitution was due entirely to Article VI "All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation."
Debt issued by fed gov under the articles of confederation was selling for around three cents on the dollar. If adopted, the new constitution would guarantee repayment of those bonds at 100 cents on the dollar. Speculators bought up all the debt and lobbied hard for the new constitution.
Thus our beloved constitution was the wrapper surrounding a great financial scam, Nothing changes
Good answer.
Get the guns outta white ppls hands! LYNCH them!
oh the irony.
Long Arms
Short Legs
Scraped knuckles
Aaand, you've got yourself a Bundy.