POLITICO: [New York Times’ Maureen] Dowd argues that the president could have turned the support from 90 percent of Americans into 60 votes in the Senate for expanded background checks for gun buyers. But, she asserts, he didn’t know how to work the system to do it, and what’s more, “he doesn’t want to learn, or to even hire some clever people who can tell him how to do it or do it for him.”
She faults Obama for delivering soaring speeches and rhetoric when he could have been down in the trenches, persuading senators, one at a time, with whatever it took.
“The president said the Newtown families deserved a vote,” Dowd writes. “But he was setting his sights too low. They deserved a law.” … (more)
