HOWARD KURTZ: Biden, often stymied by aides, pushes gun measures unlikely to pass
President Biden has made clear he wants serious gun control laws passed, and hopes that"rational Republicans" are willing to compromise.
US President Joe Biden pays respect at a makeshift memorial outside of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on May 29, 2022.one of the rational ones, and the minority leader has encouraged Texas Sen. John Cornyn to work with the Democrats. But if the past is any indication, some Republicans may be going through the motions, hoping that passions have cooled after a two-week recess and the Buffalo and Texas mass shootings recede into the background.
But let’s also be clear: Many of the Republicans in Congress don’t want to lift a finger on guns, not because they fear the now-weakened NRA but to avoid the wrath of gun rights supporters for whom this issue is a moral and cultural crusade. They make the slippery-slope argument that even incremental reforms will ultimately lead to gun confiscation, though I’m sure many are privately horrified by these shootings in schools and supermarkets.
But this time is probably not different – in that much of the public is exhausted by the constant carnage, and resigned to the fact that not much will change. The only plausible theory I could devise was a good cop/bad cop routine: Biden sends a message by saying what he really thinks, and his lieutenants calm the bureaucracy and foreign leaders by restating the"official" policy. "The so-called clean-up campaign, he has told advisers, undermines him and smothers the authenticity that fueled his rise. Worse, it feeds a Republican talking point that he’s not fully in command.
As if to underscore the point about mixed messages, the White House communications office put out a statement ripping the"breathless" NBC story: "As we’ve said before, no clarifications of the president’s remarks are ever issued without his direct approval."
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