“This President has just demonstrated, once again, that he has no respect for representative government nor for the limitations that our Constitution places on the powers of his office.”
“I don’t know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don’t know that. But I do know this, that in his heart, he’s not an American. He’s just not an American.”
“Congressman Coffman appears to have no bounds,” said DCCC Spokesman Tyler Law. “First he spinelessly refused to denounce the Republicans in his district that blamed Planned Parenthood for the murders at their facility in Colorado Springs and now he’s questioning whether or not our Commander in Chief has respect for the nation – an attack that follows Coffman’s infamous pronouncement that President Obama is not an American. Given that the President’s speech referenced the mass murder in Aurora, the timing and focus of Coffman’s widely rebuked attack is shameful.”
This shameful pandering did not go unnoticed. Yesterday’s Aurora Sentinel editorial had this to say:
“Between 80 percent and 90 percent of Americans, including Republicans, back universal background checks for gun sales, which is exactly what Obama is trying to do after Congress has adamantly refused. Almost every one of Coffman’s and Gardner’s constituents want everyone who buys a gun to undergo a background check Instead, these two lawmakers jumped on the GOP jingoism bandwagon, saying that Obama “disrespects” the U.S. Constitution… Parents of children slaughtered in Newtown and Aurora don’t disrespect America, the government or even Congress. They just want something done so other parents don’t have go through what they have…Aurora, Colorado and America have had enough of the partisan political circus that has prevented the country from addressing the crisis of gun violence. While Washington plays at petty political sniping, the country is dying for real answers.”