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<\/p>\nRUSH: Next up, White House correspondent Ed Henry said, “Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky,” not Ron Paul, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, “said only a matter of hours ago today, he accused the president of using the Newtown families as ‘props.\u2019 What\u2019s your response to that accusation?”<\/p>\n
CARNEY: I don\u2019t know if Senator Paul met with the Newtown families, but the Newtown families aren\u2019t here for the president. (banging on podium) They\u2019re here because their children were murdered. They\u2019re here asking for the Senate to do something that\u2019s common sense. That\u2019s my response.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: And what the Senate is doing is nothing that would have prevented what happened in Newtown. Am I mean to say that? Is it mean to point that out? There is nothing in the Senate gun control bill that would have stopped what happened in Newtown. I don\u2019t know. See, I live in Realville, and sometimes Realville doesn\u2019t mix well with the — well, I gotta tell you something, folks, on this gun control bill. Headline here from the AP: “Background Check Bill Faces Likely Senate Defeat.”<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a Gallup poll out. “Only 4% of Americans Think Gun Control is an Important Problem.” Only 4%! After all the Newtown stuff on Air Force One. After all the so-called lobbying. After all of the caring. After all of the attention. After all of the focus. Only 4% of the American people think gun control is an important problem, but the people in Washington do not care. We\u2019ve got Dingy Harry out talking about the anti-gun bill, letting the cat out of the bag. And that has always been the point, folks.<\/p>\n
These polls saying that 90% of Americans believe in universal background checks, not true. They ignore the fact that nearly 100% of Americans do not think this is an issue. Only 4% of Americans think gun control\u2019s an important problem. Can I talk to you about disconnect? If you turn on the media, if you listen to it, read it, watch it, all you\u2019ll think is going on is gun control and immigration. Alternate hours, alternate days, gun control here, immigration there. The next hour, immigration, then gun control.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what\u2019s important to government. That\u2019s what\u2019s important to media. That\u2019s what\u2019s important to Democrats. That\u2019s what\u2019s important to politicians. The American people don\u2019t care. Nearly 100%, 96% of the American people do not think gun control is an important problem. This is all being driven by the left, by the media, by Obama, by government. This is a complete disconnect between the federal government and the people. The federal government is hell-bent on gun control. Ninety-six percent of the American people don\u2019t care about it. Ditto immigration and amnesty. Only 4% think amnesty is an important problem.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile — I hate to say this — the Republicans play along. Even if these votes lose, they\u2019ve allowed the left and Obama to push their agenda. There\u2019s no push-back. Four percent of the American people care about gun control. Ninety-six percent don\u2019t. There\u2019s an opportunity here for the Republican Party to identify with 96% of the American people on a fundamental constitutional issue, a freedom issue, a liberty issue, a civil rights issue: gun control. Ninety-six percent of the people do not want this. And, instead, the Republicans go along, allow the left, allow Obama to push this agenda.<\/p>\n
Even if the gun control vote loses, what\u2019s happened? The agenda has moved forward. The intensity, the impression is left that that\u2019s all anybody does care about when it couldn\u2019t be further from the truth, it\u2019s a major disconnect. And it is the same thing with immigration. The vast majority of people in this country are worried about jobs. The vast majority of people in this country are worried about the economy. The vast majority of people in this country are worried about debt, government debt and their personal debt. People in this country are not concerned with making certain that illegal aliens who came here voluntarily are granted citizenship. The American people are just not obsessed with that. But all of Washington is.<\/p>\n
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\nRepublicans and Democrats are obsessed with making sure that illegal aliens are granted citizenship. The American people are not. They\u2019re concerned about jobs, the economy, debt. They\u2019re concerned about a plundering country. They\u2019re concerned about a decaying, dying country. The Republican Party has an identity issue here, an opportunity to relate to and identify with 96% of the American people on two crucial issues. And instead they join the game and they play along with the Democrat agenda. The Democrats set the agenda, the Republicans play along, acting like they gotta get in on it, too.<\/p>\n
“Oh, amnesty\u2019s the deal? Okay, we\u2019ll join that, yeah, yeah, yeah, we\u2019re for that.” Well, the American people aren\u2019t. Four percent. Four percent, after all the Newtown stuff, Air Force One, the lobbying, 4% care about gun control. About 4%, 5% of the American people are concerned making sure that illegal aliens, who came here voluntarily, are granted citizenship. Ninety-six percent of the people don\u2019t want that. Doesn\u2019t matter. Yet these are the two big issues, immigration, amnesty, gun control, 96% of the American people want no part of it and yet they\u2019re the two big issues marching forward, great opportunity for the Republicans to relate to, identify with 96% of the American people, and they don\u2019t do it. Why?<\/p>\n
My God, folks, the Republican Party here has enormous, huge opportunities to advance principles, to connect with 96%. If you don\u2019t believe that, 90%, 80%, whatever a huge percentage of the American public. And they\u2019re not doing it. Instead, they play along with the Democrats, they play along with the media. I don\u2019t know why. We can only guess, like all of you, fear, they\u2019ve lost their way, they\u2019ve lost their will, they\u2019ve forgotten their principles, nothing to fall back on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RUSH: Next up, White House correspondent Ed Henry said, “Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky,” not Ron Paul, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, “said only a matter of hours ago today, he accused the president of using the Newtown families as ‘props.\u2019 What\u2019s your response to that accusation?” CARNEY: I don\u2019t know if Senator Paul met […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n