Question of the morning:
Did Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher fall off his testosterone-enhancing medications or guzzle a bad batch of low grade tequila?
Rohrabacher did the unimaginable this week.
Don't tell the John Birch Society, but the self-described “patriot” paused from calling Barack Obama “a Fascist” (and claiming that illegal immigrants singlehandedly caused the federal deficit) to agree with the president.
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Kinda.
Using Twitter, the Costa Mesa Republican–the county's senior, career politician who first ran for Congress in 1988 on a term limits platform–declared that he's fine with Obama's thoughts about extensive background checks for gun purchases.
But Rohrabacher thinks proposed limitations of the size of gun magazines is “a feel good stunt” that won't have any practical impact on reducing mass killings with assault weapons.
He says the federal government should target criminals and not honest citizens with future gun control laws.
Earlier this month,
the congressman argued for Obama's fiscal cliff legislation and, after realizing that his vote wasn't needed for passage, voted against it.
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.
