The Gun Lobby Can’t Hold America Hostage

Each year, more than 30,000 American lives are cut short by guns - two-thirds coming from suicides. Too many Americans have lost loved ones.

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President Obama (@POTUS) January 04, 2016

Guns now kill as many people as cars in almost half of the U.S. We can't stop every act of violence, but we can save lives if we act.

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President Obama (@POTUS) January 04, 2016

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Tomorrow, I'm taking action to reduce gun violence and save lives - protecting the Second Amendment and our kids. https://t.co/vNqXEhaC9M

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President Obama (@POTUS) January 04, 2016

We will keep guns out of the wrong hands, enforce our guns laws, and ensure those with serious mental illnesses get treatment.

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President Obama (@POTUS) January 04, 2016

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What's often ignored in this debate is that a majority of gun owners agree with commonsense steps to save lives.

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President Obama (@POTUS) January 04, 2016

The gun lobby may be holding Congress hostage, but they can't hold America hostage. We can't accept this carnage in our communities.

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President Obama (@POTUS) January 04, 2016

The President’s Day

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President Barack Obama meets with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Thomas Brandon, and FBI Director James Comey to discuss what executive actions he can take to curb gun violence

The Dollar Keeps Growing In Strength. Thanks, President Obama

Republican Predictions: $6 gas, 8% unemployment, global economic catastrophe Reality: Absolutely none of that shit thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/0…

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Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) January 01, 2016

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Ari Alstedter: Obama Dollar Rally Is Forecast to Join Clinton, Reagan Upturns

The dollar has an opportunity to make history. After three straight years of gains, strategists are forecasting the U.S. currency will be a world beater again in 2016, strengthening against seven of 10 developed-world peers by the end of the year, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey. That outlook is backed by the Federal Reserve’s stated intent to continue raising interest rates while peers in the rest of the world keep them flat or lower.

The rally that started during President Barack Obama’s second term is poised to join a category defined by only the biggest, most durable periods of dollar strength since the currency’s peg to gold ended in 1971. “This is the third big dollar rally we’ve had,” said Marc Chandler, global head of currency strategy in New York at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. “The Obama dollar rally, I think, is being fueled by the divergence in monetary policy.” That comes after three straight years of gains for the U.S. Trade Weighted Real Broad Dollar Index, a monthly weighted average of the dollar against the currencies of its main trading partners compiled by the Fed back to 1973

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He also passed the largest expansion of health insurance since Medicare and the economy responded with millions of jobs and lower deficits

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Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) January 01, 2016

So when you hear more garbage predictions about Dem policies over the next year, know that almost none have been right for the last eight.

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Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) January 01, 2016

Early Bird Chat

Randomness from yesterday

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 Today

2:10 ET: The President meets with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, FBI Director James Comey and ATF Deputy Director Thomas to discuss his upcoming gun control executive order